Hackers over Thanksgiving holiday have planted malware and gained control over S.F. public railways system. The problem caused the ticket kiosks to go down forcing the railway system to make all ride free over the weekend. The attackers reportedly demanded 100 Bitcoins, or roughly $73,000, in ransom.
"After two days of interrupted ticketing service and free rides for passengers, the railway’s station kiosks went back online on Sunday. A day later though, the hackers were still threatening to expose 30 Gigabytes of stolen employee and customer data."
read more at Fortune's Link;
http://fortune.com/2016/11/28/muni-hack-san-francisco/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/mirai-botnet-attack-hits-thousands-of-home-routers-throwing-users-offline/
When will Microsoft end support for your version of Windows or Office?
Are you still using 10 plus year old Office, operating system. Will you continue or will Microsoft have to pry it from your cold dead hands?
If you are wondering or care, maybe don't give a rat's arse about your ebola infested OS... but if you do check out this link;
http://www.zdnet.com/article/when-will-microsoft-pull-the-plug-on-your-version-of-windows-or-office/?loc=newsletter_large_thumb_featured&ftag=TRE17cfd61&bhid=2219791
Microsoft won't provide extended support for Office 2007 products beyond October 2017 deadline
IT administrators take note: Microsoft's Office 2007/Exchange 2007 wave of client and server software is set to exit support in October 2017, and extended custom support agreements are going away.
BIG Brother in Britain, 2016 going on 1984.
Britain enacts 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy.' It's 2016 going on 1984.
The UK has just passed a massive expansion in surveillance powers, which critics have called "terrifying" and "dangerous".
The new law, dubbed the "snoopers' charter", was introduced by then-home secretary Theresa May in 2012, and took two attempts to get passed into law following breakdowns in the previous coalition government.
Opinion: A Plethora of Windows devices vs the staid old traditional Mac lineup.
Microsoft devices continue to wow and win new users by including design innovations not found in other offerings and simply providing a device in any form one needs to accomplish their creative needs. The Apple realm while trying to keep up continues with their same iMac offering, adding a new bar that changes with the open application replacing the Function key row. It's like perfume on a pig though. No wonder kids consider the iPhone to be the Grandparents phone and consider iPads, well not at all.
Hopefully the next year's iPhone 8 will offer something new and perhaps Apple can find a way to put some fire into their Mac lineup. Otherwise, old men may continue to be Apple's leading demographic.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/29/technology/apple-customers/
Microsoft devices continue to wow and win new users by including design innovations not found in other offerings and simply providing a device in any form one needs to accomplish their creative needs. The Apple realm while trying to keep up continues with their same iMac offering, adding a new bar that changes with the open application replacing the Function key row. It's like perfume on a pig though. No wonder kids consider the iPhone to be the Grandparents phone and consider iPads, well not at all.
Hopefully the next year's iPhone 8 will offer something new and perhaps Apple can find a way to put some fire into their Mac lineup. Otherwise, old men may continue to be Apple's leading demographic.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/29/technology/apple-customers/
