Monday, June 19, 2017

Largest ever Voter Records Leak, Windows 10 Creators Update.

Nearly 200 million US voter records leaked
Personal details of American voters were stored on an unsecured and exposed server.

Just in time for tomorrow's June 20th, 2017 special election in the 6th District of Georgia comes news of the largest leak every of voter records.  Personal data of 198 million voters which was stored on an unsecured Amazon server.

The information included personal information such as name, DOB, home address, phone number and voter registration information.

"The various databases containing 198 million records on American voters from all political parties were found stored on an open Amazon S3 storage server owned by a Republican data analytics firm, Deep Root Analytics."

What is an Amazon S3 storage server?  Another component of the Cloud, https://aws.amazon.com/s3/

To read the full story, please use the link below.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/security-lapse-exposes-198-million-united-states-voter-records/?loc=newsletter_large_thumb_related&ftag=TREc64629f&bhid=2219791

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40331215


Microsoft's Windows 10 Creators Update.

The journey of Windows as a Subscription continues, the latest iteration is Windows 10, Creators Update.  For a list of new features click HERE

If your computer is updating automatically, you may already have it installed, it is Version 1703.  To update or check your current version of Windows use the link below;

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/instantanswers/d4efb316-79f0-1aa1-9ef3-dcada78f3fa0/get-the-windows-10-creators-update

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