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by Joseph Forbes | Jun 22, 2015 | NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Microsoft will end mainstream support for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 on January 13. Find out what that means for you. On January 13, Microsoft officially ends mainstream support for Windows 7 Service Pack 1. What end of mainstream support means For corporate users,...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 8, 2014 | NERD NEWS, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
After 4/8/2014 Microsoft will no longer support the Windows XP operating system. Microsoft will no longer release new security patches intended to eliminate threat vulnerabilities in this older version of Windows. According to Microsoft, continuing to use Windows XP...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 26, 2013 | HACKING, HEALTH, SECURITY, Technicals
from the too-young dept. A shocking and sad day today in the security industry. Well known hacker Barnaby Jack has passed away, sending a shock through the security community. Jack, a famed white hat hacker, was scheduled to present at the Black Hat conference on...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 28, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, SECURITY
from the insufficient-forethought dept. Using a Samsung Galaxy SIII — one of the most popular smartphones available in Canada — and a free app downloaded from the Google Play store, CBC was able to read information such as a card number, expiry date and cardholder...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 25, 2013 | Cloud Apps, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Web Hosting
from the protect-ya-neck dept. On Friday Linode announced a precautionary password reset due to an attack despite claiming that they were not compromised. The attacker has claimed otherwise, claiming to have obtained card numbers and password hashes. Password hashes,...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 24, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, HEALTH, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technical Support, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
But the majority of US health providers are in smaller practices that have been slow to embrace electronic medical records Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S....
