If your Point Of Sale Uses Oracle, Update Now
Oracle is currently the third-largest provider of POS (Point of Sale) software on the market today, which means that there's a fairly good chance you're using an Oracle POS system. If ...
Performance Issues Plague PC’s Updated With Spectre Patch
Recently a critical flaw was found inside every Intel chip made during the last decade. The flaw makes two different exploits possible. These exploits have been dubbed "Meltdown" and "Spectre." The ...
Hard Drives May Double In Speed With New Technology
What's an HDD manufacturer to do when faced with competition by faster, more efficient SSD drives? Go big, and go faster. At least that's the strategy that both Seagate and Western ...
Ransomware Attackers Are Increasing Their Attacks On Businesses
The ransomware ecosystem is maturing. Strains are divided into "families" and the number of new families that have been discovered in 2017 is half what it was in 2016. Even so, the ...
Former Employees Pose Serious Risk To Security
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reminded those who deal with PHI and PII of the dangers that terminated employees can pose to system security ...
Uber Paid To Hide Massive Data Breach From Public
It has recently come to light that the company was hacked in 2016 in a massive breach that exposed the personal information of more than 57 million Uber users and drivers. A ...
Black Friday Brings Major Increase In Fraud
Retailers are gearing up for the year's busiest shopping weekend, which runs from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, but another group is also gearing up. Scammers. Security experts are warning that retailers ...
Apple Is On Track To Become A Trillion Dollar Company
Recently, Apple's stock closed at $175.88, giving it a market valuation slightly above $900 billion. A Drexel Hamilton analyst named Brian White predicts that over the course of the next twelve months, ...
Equifax Gets Breached – Almost 150 Million People Could Be Affected
You’re probably familiar with Equifax. As one of the three major US credit bureaus, the company exerts an outsized influence on millions of lives, because their record of your credit score plays ...
Hackers Changing Point Of Sale Systems’ Prices In Latest Attack
Point of Sale (POS) systems are notoriously easy to hack. Hardly a month goes by that we don’t hear of some vendor or another having had their POS system breached, exposing customer ...
