• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-04-2019
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on New zero-day Android exploit targets Pixel, Galaxy phones—and hackers are already using it

Google’s Project Zero team is warning Pixel, Pixel 2, Galaxy S9, and Huawei P20 owners that a new Android vulnerability could let a hacker take full control of your phone. And what’s worse, there is evidence that it is being […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-02-2019
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Google’s new Password Checkup tells you if your accounts can be compromised

Legions of people use awful, easily guessable passwords. Much worse, many people reuse passwords across multiple sites and services. That means that if one site leaks your info, hackers can potentially gain access to any of your other accounts that […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-01-2019
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Kaspersky Security Cloud 2020 review: Good value for multi-device families

Kaspersky is back for 2020 with its new service, Kaspersky Security Cloud. The updated offering is billed as a new “adaptive security” suite that is supposed to act like a personalized multi-device umbrella across all your devices. In our experience, […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-30-2019
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on BitLocker, Windows’ built-in encryption tool, no longer trusts your SSD’s hardware protection

To paraphrase Fox Mulder, trust no self-encrypting SSD. As of the latest Windows 10 update, Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption tool that’s built into Pro and Enterprise versions will no longer assume that self-encrypting SSDs are, you know, actually securing their data. After […]