Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue # 687 – December 9, 2016 Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #687 was sent to all subscribers at 11:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time (USA). Most subscribers who use Yahoo or ISPs who use Yahoo, like Rogers, Frontier, ATT, Bellsouth, and others may not receive our Premium newsletter due to their arbitrary spam filtering… Read More »
Understanding the Recent Cyber Attacks Yesterday we published an article that appeared in “USA Today” on Saturday, October 22, 2016. It seems that some of you thought your personal computers were attacked and/or personal information was stolen from sites you interact with. This is not true. We just wanted to clear things up for you. The recent attacks… Read More »
The Future of the IoT A few days ago we wrote about the lack of security on the IoT (The Internet of Things), and on Friday, the USA got a quick lesson in just how vulnerable the IoT is. We also learned how the IoT’s generally lax secuity, can affect the Internet’s biggest, most successful Web sites, a well… Read More »
Knowledge Can Keep You Safe Online Malware, Rasomware, Identity Theft and You Believe us when we say, we subscribe to a few tech newsletters. And it irks us no end when a newsletter constantly tries to scare its readers with one scary article after another. We don’t want to scare you, we just want to inform you. If… Read More »
Ransomware on the IoT First, let me say this – we get other tech newsletters, and a couple of them — one in particular — seem to thrive on scaring people with desperate headlines: DOOM! DOOM! DOOM! We don’t to be like them, but we do want you to be informed. So today, we are going to give… Read More »
Microsoft Files Patent for a Biometric Lock Screen Personal computers will be getting a little more personal based on a patent recently filed by Microsoft. The new patent will use biometric data to protect your personal info on your lock screen. The patent… …could ensure your privacy and security by optimizing your lock screen. This is possible with a new… Read More »