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Now Is A Good Time To Upgrade To SSD Drives

If you’ve been considering swapping out some of your old HDDs to SSDs, now is a great time to do so, thanks to the convergence of two factors. First is the fact that the manufacturers of SSDs...

Microsoft Is Issuing Surface Book 4 Replacements

Do you own a Surface Book 4?  If you do, you may have been unfortunate enough to get one that suffers from a peculiar screen flickering issue.  It’s not known exactly how many Surface Book...

More Bad News From The Equifax Breach 

The news just keeps getting worse for Equifax.  The company has already had to revise their estimates of how many people were impacted by last year’s breach more than once, and now...

New Vulnerability May Expose Encrypted Emails 

Security researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have discovered a dangerous new email vulnerability called “Efail.”  Exploiting this new email vulnerability would allow...

SSD Drive Makers Adding Features To Reduce Duplicate Data

Big changes are in the works in the SSD-based storage ecosystem. It includes three different vendors all making similar announcements regarding designs to help companies that rely on SSD-based storage...

Chili’s Is The Latest To Suffer A Credit Card Breach

Brinker International (the parent company of the Chili’s restaurant chain) formally announced that on May 11, they discovered malware on an undisclosed number of their point of sales terminals. ...

Vega Stealer Malware Goes After Your Saved Credentials

There’s a new security threat to be worried about, and security professionals are warning that it could be very bad indeed.  The new malware is known as the “Vega Stealer,” and is...

Your Kids’ Personal Info May Have Been Compromised

An identity threat company called 4iQ has recently published a report called “Identities in the Wild:  The Tsunami of Breached Identities Continues.”  Unfortunately, the information in the...

Fitbit and Google Partnership May Raise Privacy Concerns

Depending on which side of the privacy debate you’re on, you’re either going to love or hate this announcement: “Fitbit intends to use Google’s new Cloud Healthcare API to help...