Seagates 8TB hard drive

No price yet, but some cool tweaks to get to that size.

HP recalls 6 million power cords

For some notebooks and laptops.

Latest 64-bit Chrome is now stable

Faster, more stable, more efficient, etc....

Microsoft Surface Pro 3 may be overheating

Microsoft is issuing a patch.

NSA's Search Engine

ICREACH searches through 850 billion records.

Windows 9 on Sept 30?

Microsoft might release a preview of Windows 9 in September.

51 UPS Stores suffer credit card theft

Cash registers had malware installed that collected CC/debit card info.

UK study puts cost of ad free Internet at $230

More than 50% just click through w/o reading, 16% use ad blockers.

Another reason you should use Google Chrome

Another layer of protection is being added to Chrome.  Auto blocking of things that will change your browser settings without your knowledge.

Apple Safari Patch

Apple has released a patch for a critical vulnerability in Safari that would allow "click to own."  If you click on the wrong link, the bad guy has full access to your Mac.  All users should use Software Update to patch.

New USB reversible "C" connector

No more worries about upside down USB.

Adobe patches Flash, Reader, Acrobat

Adobe has released critical patches for Flash, Reader, and Acrobat.  All users should patch ASAP.

Black Hat Videos

If you like watching professional hackers, take a look.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

It's that time again, please make sure your Windows PCs and Microsoft Products are patched.

California to require "kill switches" on cell phones

Turn them off  in case they're stolen.

"Rachel from Cardholder Services" and Defcon

where they set up a contest called “Zapping Rachel” for hackers to build a honeypot for attracting robocallers.

Tomorrow is Patch Tuesday

"Microsoft has posted nine bulletins in its August Patch Tuesday update, covering Internet Explorer, Windows, Office, SQL Server, and Sharepoint."

Microsoft, $1.7B in the red from Surface

The Surface program is costing MS a lot of cash.

Fastforward through your life's videos with Hyperlapse

Microsoft intros FF w/o camera motion for your GoPro videos.

IBM's bionic frog brain

4096 cores that simulate synapses with the powers of a frog's brain.

Microsoft to drop support for Internet Explorer 6,7,8 in Jan 2016

If you still must use XP, you shouldn't be using Internet Explorer.  Microsoft to drop support for old IE versions.

Hacker "redirects" 19 ISPs in Bitcoin Theft

Using BGP, a bad guy controlled router traffic in an attempt to steal cpu cycles for mining Bitcoin.

Company that sells "professional" keylogging software hacked

FinFisher, the company that sells the similarly named professional spying software, has lost about 40GB of data that contains effectiveness reports and other internal documents.

Wordpress/Drupal DOS vulnerability

A newly discovered flaw could allow Denial of Service attack vs websites.

AOL's millions of dial up users

Still a "cash cow" for AOL.

Apple's patent for Siri as a "third" input

In addition to keyboard and mouse, Siri may also be used for input to a computer.

Google to give search priority to sites using https encryption

Trying to promote the use of https, Google will now use that to influence search results.

The Pwnie Award nominees

The best "security fails" of the year.

Bad guys have 1 billion passwords, probably a record.

A "Russian" gang of "hackers" have gather a record number of Internet usernames and passwords.

Don't aim lasers at aircraft

a 26-year-old to one year and nine months in prison for firing two different laser pointers at a Kern County Sheriff’s Office helicopter over a six month period in 2013

Another NSA "leaker"

Apparently Edward Snowden is not alone

Critical Vulnerability in Samba 4.x

A flaw has been found in Samba that allows remote access through a flaw in nmbd with root level rights.  Ubuntu has released a patch, but nothing from Redhat yet.  Patch or disable nmbd if you run an newer version of Samba.

Update: PF Changs in Chattanooga affected by security breach

"On Tuesday, June 10, the United States Secret Service alerted P.F. Chang's to a possible security compromise involving credit and debit card data reportedly stolen from certain P.F. Chang's China Bistro branded restaurants located in the continental United States. An investigation into this incident was immediately initiated. Our team, including third-party forensics experts, has been working continuously to understand the nature and scope of the incident. This investigation is ongoing. The security compromise, however, has been contained, and P.F. Chang's has been processing credit and debit card data securely since June 11, 2014."

NFL allows use of Microsoft Surface during games

A deal between NFL and MS to promote both companies.

Mozilla leaks addresses and passwords of developers

Another company suffers data loss, this time from a failed "data santization script."