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October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. The African-American Cyber Report is dedicated to bringing the latest most relevant cyber security news and information to black people. Cyber security has become the single most urgent...

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LinkedIn Must Pay for Spam

October 8, 2015 | 0 Comments

If you belong to LinkedIn the company may owe you money. A judge has ordered the company to pay its users for spamming email  in boxes. LinkedIn was the target of a class action lawsuit...

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Breach Brief – Scottrade

October 5, 2015 | 0 Comments

October 5, 2015 Scottrade KrebsonSecurity.com reported that retail stock brokerage firm Scottrade suffered a data breach affecting 4.6 million customers. The company sent out notices via email and its website.  In the notice Scottrade stated...

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First African-American Joins Apple’s Board

October 5, 2015 | 0 Comments

James A. Bell, a 38 year veteran of aerospace giant Boeing, will be joining Apple’s Board of Directors as its first African-American Member. Bell comes to Apple with an impressive resume that includes his nearly...

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Facebook Hoax Circulates on the Internet

September 29, 2015 | 1 Comments

The Internet is full of rumors and hoaxes. The fact that Facebook has its name attached  to any of them is no surprise and neither is the latest hoax.  Apparently the Internet is buzzing about...

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September 29, 2015 Hilton Worldwide Hilton Worldwide, a global hospitality company is investigating a possible data breach at its properties. The data breach may have compromised payment card data of its customers. The data breach was reported...

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Snoop Dogg Launches MerryJane.com

September 29, 2015 | 2 Comments

Smoking weed is steadily becoming a mainstream practice. It probably has been for sometime but it was kept on the low. But rap icon Snoop Dogg is breaking marijuana out of the shadows by launching...

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How Safe is that ATM?

September 22, 2015 | 1 Comments

Remember the good ol’ days when ATM security meant making sure you didn’t get mugged. Well those days aren’t exactly gone. You still have to be careful. But the crooks are now using card skimmers,...

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Ludachris Jumps into the Tech Game

September 22, 2015 | 1 Comments

Rapper Ludachris, real name Chris Bridges, has decided to join a host of other rap artists and athletes  who have decided to get into the tech game. Ludachris announced that he will be partnering with...

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Clean up operations have begun as a result of what has been described as the worst attack ever on the Apple App Store. Hackers infiltrated Apple’s normally super secure ecosystem by injecting malicious software into popular...

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