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August 24, 2015  IRS Breach The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) widened the scope of the breach first announced in May. The government agency is saying that as many as 390,000 taxpayers are now at risk. The...

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Kill Your Adobe Flash Player!

July 16, 2015 | 1 Comments

Whether you know it or not you are probably using Adobe Flash Player. Especially if you are using a Windows PC and it’s a problem. But first let’s get a little background on exactly what...

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  United airlines no doubt has Sometimes the best intentions are only half the job. United Airlines launched a bug bounty to find holes in its computer systems. The idea is to get well meaning...

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Obama; Foreign Hackers Face Sanctions

April 7, 2015 | 0 Comments

President Obama is weilding yet another sword in his fight against foreign hackers and cyber attacks. Using his presidential powers the president has issued an Executive Order authorizing the federal government to levy sanctions against...

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ALERT! Superfish Contaminates Lenovo ALERT!

February 21, 2015 | 0 Comments

  The holiday season has passed and of course many African-Americans got cool new techno-gadgets for Christmas, If you purchased a Lenovo computer it’s time to pay attention. Lenovo, the world’s largest computer maker, has been...

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Secure Payments Arrive For Black Consumers

February 17, 2015 | 0 Comments

Hackers have been having a absolute field day breaking into store payment systems and stealing credit card data with impunity. The problem is intolerable for the consumer and costing everyone money everyday. Kaspersky Labs reported...

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Lizard Squad Delivers Cyber War for Christmas

December 29, 2014 | 0 Comments

It seems that at least two hacker groups have gone to war over the Christmas outage of PlayStation and Xbox online gaming network. How bad it will get is unknown but it seems that the mysterious...

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Computer Misuse Will Get You Fired

August 21, 2014 | 0 Comments

More and more jobs involve the use of a computer. And working with a computer has its hazards just as a job driving a bus or cooking for a living does. African-Americans understand that sometimes...

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Password Mistakes

August 11, 2014 | 0 Comments

As I wrote last week, Russian hackers may have stolen billions of passwords and I am pretty sure your’s and mine are included in the bunch. So I advised all of my readers to change...

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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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