Five months after returning rental car, man still has remote control | Ars...
BEWARE WHEN YOU PAIR! Man can still track vehicle, lock and unlock it, and start and stop its engine. Sinclair’s opinion of mobile apps in rental cars is decidedly less favorable. That’s because, five...
View ArticleSocial Media and Protecting Your Home: What You Need to Know!
When you leave your home during the day, do you post a note on the front door saying how long you’ll be gone and where to find the spare key? Of course not, yet many do effectively the same thing with...
View ArticleI’m still on Windows 7 – what should I do?
Support for Windows 7 has ended. Microsoft Windows 7 – launched in 2009 – came to the end of its supported life on Tuesday. Despite Microsoft’s repeated warnings to Windows 7 users, there may still be...
View ArticleWelcome to the Era of Fake Products | Wirecutter
A major Wall Street Journal investigation recently revealed that Amazon has listed “thousands of banned, unsafe, or mislabeled products,” from dangerous children’s products to electronics with fake...
View ArticleThe remote British village that built one of the fastest internet networks in...
On arrival in Clapham in spring 2019, I met Chris Conder, a straight-talking farmer’s wife who was arguably the driving force behind B4RN. Her unwavering campaign for broadband for her village, Wray,...
View ArticleHouse passes bipartisan IoT security bill to fix ‘glaring gap’ in cyber...
A bipartisan bill setting minimum security standards for Internet of Things devices connected to federal networks passed the House Monday [September 14, 2020]. The bill now awaits a Senate floor vote...
View ArticleHow to Secure Your IoT Devices – Tom’s Guide | Tom’s Guide
Have a fitness band, smart thermostat or other smart IoT device? Here’s how to make sure it’s secure. “As connected consumer devices become more powerful and gain more capabilities, they will become...
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Path Diversity & Automatic Ring-Protection for LeverettNet
LeverettNet now has 2 middle-mile uplinks, with automatic fail-over protection from the primary path (Crown Castle) to the back-up path (MBI). Path diversity between LeverettNet and the Internet...
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Research: Millions of smart devices vulnerable to hacking
BOSTON (AP) — Researchers at a cybersecurity firm say they have identified vulnerabilities in software widely used by millions of connected devices — flaws that could be exploited by hackers to...
View ArticleGRC | ShieldsUP! — Internet Vulnerability Profiling
Steve Gibson’s site has been around since the early days of the internet. It contains a very comprehensive description of what should be blocked as well as tools to probe to ensure stuff is blocked....
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