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Employees Can Vent on Social Media

September 3, 2014 | 0 Comments

A recent ruling by the National Labor Relations Board permits employees to vent their displeasure with their employers on social media. The decision was made public in August and involved employees of the Triple Play Sports...

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ALERT! Home Depot Hacked ALERT!

September 3, 2014 | 0 Comments

Home Depot is investigating a major data breach that looks like the Target stores cyber disaster. According to Krebs on Security  numerous banks reported seeing evidence that Home Depot stores could be the source of a massive new data...

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Home Device Spying Law Gathers Dust

August 27, 2014 | 0 Comments

If black people don’t know by now then you need to wake up to this. Your home and mobile devices have been spying on you and delivering the details of your life to marketers, device...

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Anonymous Gets Michael Brown Shooter Wrong

August 20, 2014 | 0 Comments

The hacktivist group Anonymous got it wrong. On Thursday a member of the group Tweeted what they thought was the name of the police officer that shot Micheal Brown. The name turned out to be...

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Billions of Passwords Stolen-They got you!

August 6, 2014 | 0 Comments

A Russian criminal gang has stolen 1.2 billion passwords and user names and 500 million email addresses.  According to Milwaukee based security firm, Hold Security, the passwords were stolen from over 400,000 businesses and personal...

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Newest Social Media Scams

August 4, 2014 | 0 Comments

Social media is where a lot of black people hangout online. Its the place to be online. But African-Americans need to understand that social media is the heart of scam country.The newest social media scams...

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The Department of Homeland Security is investigating “Backoff”  the latest malware to strike the point of sale systems of over 600 retailers.  Point of sale systems or POS are the small card readers used nearly...

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Online Tracking of Children Legislation

July 30, 2014 | 0 Comments

Senate bill s1700-113, “Safeguards Against Tracking Children Online” is currently being considered in the U.S. Senate. The bill is intended to ban online tracking of children. In the bill the definition of a child is...

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President Obama to Unlock Cell Phones

July 30, 2014 | 0 Comments

A bill making  it legal to unlock cell phones so they can be used on any service provider’s network has arrived at the White House. President Obama is expected to sign the legislation. The House...

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Microsoft‘s Internet Explorer is leaving users vulnerable to hackers and other cyber criminals. A recent study conducted by Bromium Labs revealed that Internet Explorer was highly vulnerable when targeted by hackers.  Adobe Flash was indicated...

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