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Monday, April 29, 2019

Implantable Medical Devices - keeping them safe from Hackers, also Facebook will be taken over by the Dead in 50 years!

The future of cybersecurity: Your body as a hacker-proof network

Could a 'body area network' be the key to keeping medical devices safe or transferring data between individuals?

Modern medicine is making use of the internet with more devices having internet connectivity. Insulin pumps, pacemakers, and more implantable devices are being fitted with wireless internet connectivity that allows doctors to monitor your health remotely.

The issue with being connected to the internet is that the devices can be hacked. Already proof of concept attacks has illustrated the risk exists. Fortunately, there have been no attacks so far but cybercriminals have demonstrated a lack of morality and tampering with these devices will no doubt happen. In the past, they have extorted hospitals putting patients at risk.

The wireless technology used to share data can be read many feet away. Recently implantable defibrillators were given a severity rating of 9.3 out of 10 for a flaw that allowed them to be hacked 20 feet away by the Department of Homeland security.

Scary stuff but new research using the human body as the signal carrier restricts the signal to a few centimeters outside the patient. Researchers at Purdue University have created Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication (EQS-HBC) which uses low-frequency, carrier-less broadband transmission.

To read the full article click on the link below.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-future-of-cyber-security-your-body-as-a-hacker-proof-network/?ftag=TRE49e8aa0&bhid=27630927001468733386426006914379

The dead will take over Facebook in the next 50 years
Analysis suggests that the deceased will soon outnumber the living on the network.

and I thought it was me the reason no one responded to my posts. :-)

A time is coming in which you may see more memorial accounts on Facebook than active users, with academics estimating that accounts belonging to the deceased will outnumber the living within 50 years.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-dead-will-take-over-facebook-in-the-next-50-years/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=2219791

Friday, November 30, 2018

Latest Security Hack, Microsoft passes Apple as most valuable Company

Latest Hack: Marriott says its Starwood database was hacked on approximately 500 million guests

Marriott said the Starwood guest reservation database was breached, potentially exposing information on about 500 million guests.

Among the information stolen on many of the guests includes a combination of name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, Starwood Preferred Guest account information, date of birth, gender, arrival and departure information, reservation date, and communication preferences.

Payment information may also have been accessed on some guests.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/30/marriott-says-its-starwood-database-was-breached-onapproximately-500-million-guests-.html

Apple and Microsoft are going head to head for world’s largest company

What you may say... Microsoft? It was Amazon and Apple that had been vying for the richest capitalization but the online retailing giant's stock has dropped in value along with Apple's beginning in October. Meanwhile Microsoft stock has surged in part due to 2 areas, cloud and gaming.

Microsoft's growing cloud business and strong PC sales made Microsoft one of the few tech companies to grow in value following its September quarter earnings results. Apple's valuation, meanwhile, has fallen more than 20 percent since its own earnings results.

Microsoft topped AWS (Amazon Web Services) beginning in the 1st quarter this year with IBM trailing in 3rd place. Both IBM and Microsoft posted very good 2017 4th Qtr results with IBM topping both AWS and Microsoft. However, the gap between Microsoft and AWS started widening in that quarter.

Gaming has become a huge industry fueled by Fortnite, Red Dead video games online forums. Gaming machines are very lucrative for hardware companies. Video cards capable of delivering 4K graphics and high speeds can cost more than the average business computer alone.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/26/microsoft-passes-apple-most-valuable-company/

https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/26/apple-market-cap-microsoft/

https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/01/apple-stop-reporting-unit-sales/

https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/21/foxconn-cut-costs-iphone-sales/

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Massive Overseas theft of South Carolina Tax Data, Chrome Remote Desktop, iPad 4

South Carolina DOR Hacked.

Tax data belonging to as many as 675,000 South Carolina businesses and information from tax forms belonging to 3.6 million people who filed since 1998 including credit card information has been compromised by overseas hackers. State offering free year of credit monitoring.

http://www.midlandsconnect.com/news/story.aspx?id=817902#.UJJ-FIb0fQI

http://www.thestate.com/2012/10/31/2502825/suit-filed-over-sc-data-hack.html#.UJJ8IIb0fW8

Google announces Chrome Remote Desktop

Tech giant Google has announced that its Chrome Remote Desktop has moved out of beta. The move coincides and complement Google's new Chromebook, allowing users to access their Mac or PC with the portable and easy to use Chromebook while on the go. The new Chromebook is made by Samsung and retails at only $249.

The Remote Desktop includes Printer support as well as the ability to access another person's computer for support assistance. For more details see,

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411565,00.asp?google_editors_picks=true

Apple surprises with new iPad 4 announcement.

There is a some ill will in Apple World with the unveiling of the 4th Generation iPad last week at Apple's iPad mini event. Only 7 months into the 3rd generation iPad, Apple without any warning has dropped a bomb on buyers of the iPad 3. The 4th gen iPad has the new A6X processor which Apple says "doubles the performance of CPU Tasks." The previous iPad 3 has the same processor as the iPad 2, A5X. The other notable differences are, IOS 6 (iPad3 which came with IOS 5.1 but is upgradeable), the 4th gen has the new 8 pin Lightning connector and LTE wireless connectivity for super fast mobile internet when you are out and about.

(from PadGadget's site), If you are the kind of person that likes to have the latest and greatest Apple device, then this fourth generation tablet is that must have product. It’s twice as fast (in regards to both CPU and graphical capabilities), has a better FaceTime camera, faster Wi-Fi, and improved LTE.

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