Esther K.Y. Chan Memorial Scholarship 2017 Award Recipient

2017 Award Recipient We are pleased to share the news that Ms. Courtney Mills has been selected as the recipient of the 2017/18 Debian Information Technology Inc., Esther K.Y. Chan […]

Smart TV’s May Be Tracking You And Vulnerable To Hacks

Do you own a smart TV?  More than half of all television sales in the US last year were smart TVs, so chances are decent that you own one.  If […]

Almost Half Of Top Ranking Websites Are Vulnerable

Menlo Security just released their third annual “State of the Web” report and it’s not pretty.  The headline finding is that 42% of the top 100,000 sites as ranked by […]

Apple And Google No Longer World’s Top Brands

The latest Brand Finance Global 500 report out and contains some surprises this year. In the battle of the Brands, two companies have long topped the list:  Apple and Google.  […]

Ransomware Affected Over 50 Percent Of Surveyed Companies

Sophos has released the results of their annual “State of Endpoint Security Today”, and it doesn’t paint a pretty picture. A full 54% of companies surveyed reported having been hit […]

If your Point Of Sale Uses Oracle, Update Now

Oracle is currently the third-largest provider of POS (Point of Sale) software on the market today, which means that there’s a fairly good chance you’re using an Oracle POS system.  […]

Fitness Trackers Could Be A National Security Risk

If ever there were two phrases that didn’t seem to go together, they would probably be “Fitness trackers” and “National Security Risk.”  The very idea that a simple fitness tracker […]

iPhone Throttling Issue To Be Addressed In Upcoming Update

Recently, Apple found itself in hot water with its normally adoring user base. This happened when it became known that the company was intentionally throttling (slowing down) the speed of […]

Electronic Health Record Company “Allscripts” Hit By Ransomware

Another day, another high-profile ransomware attack.  This time, the victim was Allscripts, an EHR (Electronic Health Record) company that hospitals, pharmacies, and ambulatory centers around the country rely on. The […]

Windows 10 Privacy Becoming More Transparent In Next Version

All companies collect data on their customers, but some are better than others when it comes to being upfront about what kinds of data are collected.  Over the past year, […]

Mac Computers Battling New Malware For Hijacking DNS

It’s official, the first macOS malware of 2018 is here.  Discovered by an independent security researcher and dubbed “OSX/MaMi,” the code is functionally similar to DNSChanger malware. The researcher posted […]

Intel Chips Face Another Possible Vulnerability

Intel’s year isn’t getting off to a very good start.   Just after the discovery of a pair of critical vulnerabilities that have been in their chipsets for more than a […]