A research university New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), fully accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, offers the Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS) – Online. The program was first announced and launched in 2013 and is going strong today. A faculty of academics, researchers, and industry professionals well accomplished in […]
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9to5Mac has discovered a significant bug in FaceTime app, and the news is running virally over social and major media outlets. Reportedly, when users start group FaceTime, they can immediately hear the audio coming from their phone, regardless of the other person accepting or rejecting their call. 9to5Mac TechCrunch has verified this bug on multiple iPhones running iOS
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a New Privacy Law, Makes Europe World’s “Tech Police” is a regulation in EU law (2016/679) on data protection and privacy for everyone within the EU. French data protection authority fining Google $57 Million (50 Million Euros) Under GDPR, a largest penalty as of now (being 4th penalty of such kind
A while ago Google made changes to its Chrome browser, forcing a sign-in to the Chrome itself, by default, once a user engaged with any Google service, such as Youtube or Gmail. As a result, it was possible that users may have assumed that once they’d signed out of Chrome their data was no longer accessible, however, it was not the case: Google’s satellite services kept
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On May 23rd 2018 researchers at Cisco discovered an advanced malware, named VPNFilter, that targets routers and NAS devices in order to steal files, information, and examine network traffic as it flows through the device. More details can be found on the powersolution.com blog article titled ‘[ALERT] 500,000+ Consumer Routers Infected with VPNFilter Malware’
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As a follow up to our previous communication titled ‘Update to CPU Meltdown & Spectre Vulnerabilities,’ powersolution.com has been testing the updates provided by Microsoft and computer vendors to patch the two vulnerabilities dubbed Meltdown and Spectre. We have also been following the guidance provided by Intel, AMD, HP, and Dell. To recap, roughly every
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powersolution.com has been testing the patches provided by Microsoft and computer vendors to patch the two vulnerabilities dubbed Meltdown and Spectre. To recap, roughly every processor produced since 1995 is susceptible to a flaw that could allow an attacker to gain access to passwords and other sensitive data without leaving a trace. These two vulnerabilities
A critical design flaw in Intel chips that have not been fully disclosed at this time has triggered a massive and coordinated response by both Windows and Linux to implement significant security updates that can potentially lead to performance issues. The flaw is said to allow a cybercriminal attackers to exploit ordinary apps to get access to
Heard of Imran Awan? Just another IT consultant serving the U.S. Congress, until recently. Awan is a Pakistani IT specialist that was hired, along with family members, by certain U.S. Congress representatives over a period of several years. Awan, along with his family and team members, earned several millions of dollars – sometimes for their
U.S. Congress Hired the Wrong “IT Guy” – How SMBs Can Avoid a Similar Costly Mistake read more »
Last week Microsoft inadvertently released the wrong Windows 10 Creators Fall Update test build to Windows 10 PC and Mobile users in the various test rings. Some Windows Phone users currently not in the Insider program also reported getting these inadvertent test builds. Microsoft actually planned to release new test builds of Windows 10 to
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Not too long ago we posted “One of the largest cybersecurity breaches EVER you did NOT know about [Yahoo]” blog, and now it happens again – and this time it’s twice as big, and it goes further back. The Yahoo corporate office disclosed information on breach of more than a billion – over 1,000,000,000 accounts
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A cryptocurrency, a subset of alternative digital currencies, is an online form of payment, a funds exchange using cryptography. It allows securing the transactions and to control the creation of additional units of the currency. If you would like more inofrmation on digital currency, TechCrunch authored a series of short videos on digital currency: “What
Will you be the victim of coin mining? Your odds are higher than you think. read more »
Now in 2016, the Yahoo breach that has occurred 2 years ago, in late 2014 has been confirmed by Yahoo on Thursday: at least 500 million user accounts have been stolen. There has been a rise of conflicting information about the nature of this breach. Yahoo declares it was a job of a “state-sponsored actor”,
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There is a new bully on the block – a Jigsaw ransomware. Unlike its older cousins that encrypt the data files on the infected computers, demanding ransom for encrypting the files, this nasty little beast takes it a step further: if your machine is infected, Jigsaw creates copies of all the files, and deletes the
Last year, Ransom32 – “Ransomware as a service” – malware allows malicious users to create their own ransomware to extort money from those affected by it. There are several variants of it – the most recent one, calledTeslaCrypt (Trojan.Cryptolocker.N), has emerged late in November of 2015, sweeping through internet, sending out massive amounts of spam,
A new piece of ransomware dubbed Linux.Encoder.1 has been discovered that targets Linux servers. Researchers have found that the virus only encrypts files that are related to Web hosting, Web servers, MySQL, Subversion, Git, and other software packages used in Web development and Web servers. The virus is known to encrypt the following directories: /home
The information technology field is improving with time and over the past couple decades it has been growing larger thanks to the contribution of worldwide important experts. Today, a good IT service management is important not only for the largest companies, but also for local small businesses that need to grow. The goal is always
As an IT consulting and tech support company in New Jersey, saying that we are surrounded by computers all day long would be an understatement. Desktop computers, servers, laptops, routers, external hard drives, millions of cables and memory sticks – it feels like a computer shop inside our office! However, it also means we need
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ widely used data and research website was hacked late last month. According to the St. Louis Fed, the regional central bank’s internal systems were not compromised. The regional central bank issued a statement. It mentions: “On April 24, 2015, computer hackers manipulated routing settings at a domain name
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Back in February 2015, Microsoft became the first cloud provider to adopt the privacy-focused ISO 27018 standard a follow-on to ISO 27001), a significant measure of data safeguard, protecting users’ personally identifiable information (PII) by cloud providers. Now the Dropbox, a popular cloud storage solution, achieved the standard to assure users about how Dropbox handles
Dropbox joined Microsoft in securing data privacy-focused ISO 27018 standard read more »
CryptoWall is the new an improved version of ransomware such as CryptoBit, Cryptolocker, and CryptoDefense. Read previously posted “Beware of Cryptolocker Trojan Ransomware” for more screenshots and tips on how to identify and rid of the ransomware. Ransomware is a type of a malicious software that takes over your computer system and restricts access to
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As April 8th is just four weeks away, Microsoft reminds of Windows XP end of support: “Microsoft has provided support for Windows XP for the past 12 years. But now the time has come for us, along with our hardware and software partners, to invest our resources toward supporting more recent technologies so that we
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After Bill Gate’s long-anticipated stepping down as Microsoft Chairman, one of Microsoft’s current board members, John Thompson is simultaneously taking on the role of Microsoft board chairman, while a new, third CEO is named for and by Microsoft – Satya Nadella, a Microsoft veteran of 22 years. Mr. Gates will now focus on the charitable
Bill Gates Resigned as Chairman; Satya Nadella is Microsoft’s new CEO read more »
I remember back in 2002 when my son was born, I was watching The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest and thinking to myself – it will happen. The $99 Personal – Holographic – Computer. I remember thinking “It will happen and my son will be using one of those computers one day. ”
CryptoLocker, detected by Sophos as Troj/Ransom-ACP, a malicious program known as ransomware, is making rounds hitting computers via email attachments or via botnets. Infecting your computer via Email Trojan Infection through email may happen when you open an attachment containing the trojan. You have to take special care opening attachments, even if they look innocent
Do you trust product reviews? I bet when you shop for a product – be it a household item, or an app for your mobile device – first thing you do is check out product ratings and reviews. But can you really trust them? You may be aware that September 2013 is now the milestone
Thousands of Fake BBM for Android reviews exposed! read more »
Fascinating video featuring latest advancements in nano-technology and computer technologies. The video itself is almost a year old, yet still very relevant and products described are still unavailable to the public. If you missed the news on it – watch the video to check out surface, or tabletop computing technology – no mouse nor keyboard
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What a fascinating topic is Wearable Technologies. No, I am not talking about a mood ring! We can all agree that we live in the future – growing up, I was dreaming of the day I can use a device that would fit in the palm of my hand to see what’s going on in
The Future is now – Wearable Technology Meets Business read more »
The US Justice Department said Hamza Bendelladj, 24, who was known by his alias “Bx1,” an Algerian sought in connection with the computer malware designed to compromise personal identity and financial information, such as online banking credentials, credit card details, usernames, passwords and other personally identifiable information, would face charges in federal court in Atlanta,
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Google Now support for iOS is available now – no pun intended. Today, Google announced an update to its iOS mobile search app to version 3.0, adding support for Google Now. Google Now is a predictive search engine, a form of intelligent personal assistant developed by Google that is available within the Google Search mobile
This week’s collection of news around computer and information technology: Our Internet privacy is at risk — but not dead (yet) Congress is expected to modernize the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, increasing judicial oversight over law enforcement and treating data stored in the cloud the same as if it were stored on our
Another one bites the dust. You may have heard a lot of famous IT brands that have been hacked recently, and now the world’s largest software company, Microsoft, is one of them. Microsoft has officially confirmed they have been hit by a recent computer hacking attack, however in a blog posting Friday, Microsoft said it
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been vaguely hinting about developing Facebook’s own social search engine for some time now. During TechCrunch Disrupt conference back in in September of 2011, Zuckerberg admitted having a dedicated team at Facebook working on the project, so that Facebook can function as a search engine, competing with Google. Well, hinting
A computer virus that has been active since 2007, makes a new appearance in 2013: “Red October”, named after the Russian submarine from the Tom Clancy novel The Hunt For Red October targets eastern European countries. The name has special appeal to me – after all I have Russian roots. On top of targeting for
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According to GoDaddy’s official tweet from approximately 10:30 am this morning according, some services were interrupted. Here is the official message we got 10:30 am “We’re aware of an issue with email impacting some customers. We are working to resolve ASAP. Thank you for your patience.” There was no official response from GoDaddy team as
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Microsoft officials confirmed today (Sept.17) that Windows 8 will be announced on October 25, during Microsoft’s big launch event for Windows 8 and the Surface RT in New York City. The way Microsoft puts it, Windows 8 is “Windows 7, only better… Windows Reimagined… Exciting features of a new generation of PCs [with] full power
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IBASE Technology Inc., (an Associate Member of the Intel® Intelligent Systems Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers and a manufacturer of industrial motherboards and embedded systems) released its latest IB895, a 3.5” disk-size SBC integrated with the Intel® Atom™ D2550/N2600 processor( 1.86GHz, 1MB cache/1.6GHz, 1MB cache) and Intel® CG82NM10 PCH chipset. It
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Walking in the hallways of the mall by the Sheraton hotel in Boston, where I am staying for the duration of the Hubspot Inbound 2012 event, I spotted something I have not seen before, yet something vaguely familiar. Four squares of popular colors, together. Strangely, my brain did not register it until I actually saw
Microsoft Logo Change – would it fail where others have succeeded? read more »
While there is still no official confirmation from Apple camp, rumor has it new iPhone will be unveiled on September 12 event – which makes sense since the new iPhone is expected to hit stores on September 21, 2012. More fuel to the rumors is added by expectation of “iPad Mini” – most likely in
Next generation iPhone and iPad Mini are rumored to come out in September 2012 read more »
Microsoft has developed a Windows tablet computer of its own design – Surface. The announcement of Surface tablets comes at a time when mobile devices security is on everyone’s mind. Microsoft has not been synonymous with security for quite some time. At a conference that took place on June 19, 2012, Collin Davis, senior director
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People seem to be able to fear anything. Pick an item – and chances are, there is a phobia that is designed just for that. Nomophobia – one of the latest to join the rank of human conditions – is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. In fact, this term it is
According to CNN several websites affiliated with the CIA, Mexico’s mining ministry and the state of Alabama were brought down last Friday. These incidents are allegedly done by hackers, government officials and a well-known hacking group reported. A message Friday on a group Anonymous media pages, including Tumblr and Twitter celebrated that the CIA’s website
I’ve read an interesting list on CNN this morning. Read full article here: http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/21/tech/mobile/mobile-trends-2011-gahran/index.html Here is the bullet point: of quick and, per Amy’s own description – “and entirely subjective — list of Amy Gahran’s picks for the 10 most important stories and trends for 2011 in U.S. mobile news”: 1. Move from unlimited data
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North Jersey hospitals are planning to share patient medical records electronically. It has been a long-anticipated move that should lower costs and improve patient care. Nine hospitals, including St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson and St. Joseph’s Hospital in Wayne, Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, have joined a network that will be the first
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In my earlier 7 Computer Tablets to Consider post from July of 2011, HP TouchPad (a 9.7-inch tablet from HP that got in the spotlight back in February, to be available in summer of 2011) fell off my grid: on August 18th, HP announced that it is purchasing software company Autonomy, spinning off its PC
Back in June I had read a blog post, Flag Day Marks 15 Years Of Innovation At GSA, by Casey Coleman, Chief Information Officer for U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). Effective government is always on the burner as a hot topic. Ms. Coleman’s topic had reminded me how IT helps federal agencies to create –
Back in in 2005, Sony-BMG released music CD’s with digital rights management (DRM) software developed by two independent companies. In late 2005, it was discovered that the software installed a root kit onto user’s computer, leaving the computer open to security attacks. The two vendors in this situation were XCP and MediaMax. Both vendors produced
