Tag: Technology News

New MacOS Sierra Available Includes Long-Awaited Features

holstonit | October 15, 2016

Over the past few years, most of MacOS’s updates have been aimed at bringing it firmly into alignment with iOS. Gradually, we’ve seen an increasing number of iOS’s features ported over to the desktop, up to and including the overall…

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Hacked Smart Devices Are Being Used To Launch Web Attacks

holstonit | October 14, 2016

Much has been written about the explosion in the size of the Internet of Things: a dizzying and rapidly growing collection of internet-connected objects that we use to make our lives more convenient. These days, you can find smart versions…

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ClixSense Users Password Breach Affected 6 Million Users

holstonit | October 12, 2016

If you’ve never heard of ClixSense, you’re not alone. It’s a website that supposedly pays its users for viewing advertisements and completing surveys online. Unfortunately, people who signed up to use the system got a whole lot more than they…

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Your Last.fm Password Could Have Been Compromised In 2012

holstonit | October 10, 2016

Are you familiar with the music service, Last.fm? If you used the service at any point in 2012, your password could be compromised. This is the latest find announced by LeakedSource, which provides an online listing of data breaches from…

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Twitter Updates To Ease Certain Restrictions And Limits

holstonit | October 8, 2016

Longer Tweets are finally coming! Maybe. At some point. It is the company’s single most requested feature: an easing of the tight, 140-character restriction on Tweet length. And although the company has often reiterated that it was holding fast to…

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Tesla Latest To Get Hit With Remote Car Hack

holstonit | October 7, 2016

Tesla isn’t the first automaker whose increasingly automated vehicles have been hacked, but they are the latest. Fortunately, the hackers weren’t real hackers, but security researchers working for a firm called Keen Security Lab. The results, however, were disturbing to…

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iOS Vulnerability Also On Mac Computers OSX

holstonit | October 6, 2016

Last month, a devastating security flaw was found in iOS. The flaw that was discovered was a chained trio of zero day exploits that, if executed in the proper order, would allow a hacker to take total control over your…

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USB-C Growing: May Carry HDMI Signal In The Near Future

holstonit | October 5, 2016

The development of USB-C cables has generated quite a lot of excitement in the industry – even more now that there are standards in place to prevent faulty cables from being sold. This had been an issue in months past,…

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Your Next HP Printer May Be A Samsung

holstonit | October 4, 2016

HP, a giant in the printer industry, is looking for new ways to grow its business. As hardware companies have been seeing a steady erosion of revenue, HP isn’t taking it lying down. In response, the company has finalized an…

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Some Seagate Network Attached Storage Devices May Be Hosting Malware

holstonit | October 3, 2016

Thousands of publicly accessible FTP servers, including a number from Seagate network-attached storage devices, have been found on the internet that have been broken into, corrupted and are currently hosting cryptocurrency-mining malware. This is according to the latest report released…

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