AOL investigates cyber attack, says user data compromised BOSTON (Reuters) – AOL Inc on Monday urged its tens of millions of email account holders to change their passwords and security questions after a cyber attack compromised about 2 percent of its accounts. The company said it was working with federal authorities to investigate the attack, in which hackers… Read More »
Awkward: Americans can’t pass the US citizenship test In a video posted earlier this week, members of the Immigrant Archive Project — an oral history project that collects the stories of American immigrants — did a series of “man-on-the-street” interviews with passersby in Miami. The twist: they asked questions from the US citizenship test that every immigrant is… Read More »
A New Internet Explorer Security Flaw Leaves One Quarter Of Web Browsers Vulnerable More bad news in the world of online security. posted on April 27, 2014 at 5:12pm EDT More bad news for online security, especially if you use Internet Explorer to browse the web. Last night, Microsoft announced that all versions of Internet Explorer have been… Read More »
We’ve always thought that tens of millions of regular folks like EB and I banding together and contributing to a Lobby to represent our interests would be a good idea. More and more our senators and congressmen and women are being bought by big business. Isn’t it about time we started putting some money in a lobby… Read More »
Have you ever noticed the number of people who are always looking at or playing with their smart phones? Our youth are addicted, I tells ya! Many times I have been in restaurants and seen families – sitting at the same table with mom, dad, son and daughter all staring at their smart phones without saying a word… Read More »
State of the Internet report is out: Web is faster but attacks also on the rise With Internet speeds on the rise year-over-year, it’s the perfect setting for Chinese hackers to use DDoS attacks on various websites on the Internet. The global average Internet connection speed is 3.8 Mbps. (Photo : Brian Klug) It is not difficult to… Read More »