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-Sept. 9, 12:30 p.m. CT, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: Halfway down the southbound four-lane highway from Cancun to the ancient ruins in Tulum, traffic inexplicably slowed to a halt. There was some sort of checkpoint ahead by the Mexican Federal Police. I began to wonder whether it was a good idea to have brought along the ATM […]
The moment has arrived to make a tough decision: install Windows 10 or stick with the old version until you have no other choice but to update. If you still aren’t sure of what to do and are worried about losing a document or important program, you can wait a while, although sooner or later […]
Last month, KrebsOnSecurity posted an exclusive story about emails leaked from AshleyMadison that suggested the company’s former chief technology officer Raja Bhatia hacked into a rival firm in 2012. Now, an attorney for the former executive is threatening a libel lawsuit against this author unless the story is retracted. According to Bhatia’s attorney, the part of the story […]
If the most wanted cybercriminal in the US used the name of its cat as its password and a Google study revealed that typical security questions such as “What is your favorite food?” were practically useless, what should we expect of the unblocking system that protects our smartphone from being accessed? Very little, of course… […]
Have you ever watched satellite television? Were you amazed by the diversity of TV channels and radio stations available? Have you ever looked in wonder at satellite phones or satellite-based Internet connections wondering what makes them tick? What if we told you that there’s more to satellite-based Internet connections than entertainment, traffic and weather? Much, […]
Microsoft today released a dozen security updates for computers running supported versions of its Windows operating system. Five of the patches fix flaws that could get PCs compromised with little to no help from users, and five of the bulletins have vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed before today (including one that reportedly has been detected in exploits […]