Black History Month is a celebration. The month is dedicated to the abilities and accomplishments of African-Americans. It also speaks to the determination of black people to be part of American greatness even in the face of racism.  The African-American Cyber Report is about technology and black people. We cannot put the words African-American and...

Valentine’s Day is near and there are a lot of sistas left out in the cold on the day of love. Black women are the least coupled and least dated of all races and the problem is getting worse. Is online dating the answer? Black men have embraced interracial dating. Is it time for black women...

Nothing is more infuriating than returning to your car and finding a big stinking parking ticket on it!  That’s why Fixed is the App of the Week. Fixed is a mobile app that fights parking tickets for you. Let’s be real, fighting a parking ticket takes time. Fixed is the tool that gives you a fighting chance. Fixed...

Anthem Health Insurance formerly known as WellPoint and owners of the famed BlueCross BlueShield service reported today that hackers had penetrated its computer network gaining access to a treasure trove of customer and employee information including that of company CEO Joseph Swedish. Anthem is the nation’s second-largest health insurer covering nearly 37 million people. The...

Shopping online is a great way to expand you choice of merchandise and get the best price. The Internet is the world’s greatest marketplace and drug dealers know it. The dark web has become a vast drug market where dealers and users can do bussiness in complete privacy. Law enforcement knows this is happening but...

Black people love their GPS. Not everybody remembers the bad old days when you had to know how to read a map to get somewhere you were not familiar with. And of course those maps could not tell you about traffic problems. That is why Waze is the App of the Week. Waze works by...

The Internet has infiltrated every aspect of our lives. It has become both the most useful and productive and the most abused and destructive tool in human history. Domestic violence in our society has become epidemic. The Internet has become the latest weapon to inflict the deep psychological scars that the victims of domestic violence suffer. Social media,...

We have become a medicated society. It’s a sad fact and a topic for another website. But because of America’s infatuation with pill popping we need to understand the drugs and foods we take in and how they will react inside our bodies. According to the Food and Drug Administration prescription drugs kill over 100,000 people...

The African-American Cyber Report is examining what has become known as the deep or dark web. This is the first in a series of articles is intended to reveal to African-Americans the hidden, terrifying and illegal assortment of products and services you can buy on the dark web. We will also examine the dangers the...

 President Obama is beginning the final two years of his presidency facing the daunting task of working with a Republican controlled House and Senate. That fact has not stopped him from announcing several initiatives aimed at improving cyber security, expanding the availability of high speed Internet and defending the nation against cyber warfare. This the third of a...