It’s annoying to type your personal details — name, address, phone numbers, all the rest of it — every time you need to fill out on online form. Web browsers like Chrome, Safari and Opera realized this years ago, which is why your browser spares you the tedium, helpfully filling in …..
VOCM TechTalk – Virtual Assistants & Privacy Trade-Offs
Tech Talk on VOCM is a weekly tech spot highlighting the latest tech news and gadget reviews. On this episode we discuss virtual assistants and the privacy trade-offs that come with this convenience.
The Privacy Problem with Digital Assistants
For the last century, we’ve imagined a future where we’re surrounded by robotic butlers that are classy, smart, and discreet. We wouldn’t think twice of asking an embarrassing question of a robo-assistant, or entrusting him/her/it with sensitive information, because the robot’s directive would be to serve only its owner. Already, there …..
VOCM TechTalk-How To Avoid Getting Scammed Online This Holiday
Tech Talk on VOCM is a weekly tech spot highlighting the latest tech news and gadget reviews. On this episode we discuss ways you can avoid getting scammed online this holiday season.
Avoid Getting Scammed When Buying Online This Holiday Season
Even though Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, many stores are usually in the habit of extending their biggest online one-day-of-deals giving shoppers extra time to save on popular electronics, clothes or home appliances. Whether you’ve made those purchases or are still in the process you might …..
VOCM TechTalk – Apple Devices Allows Access To Personal Data
Tech Talk on VOCM is a weekly tech spot highlighting the latest tech news and gadget reviews. On this episode we discuss how an iOS flaw in Apple devices allows access to personal data.
iOS Security Flaw Gives Access To Personal Data
From the safety of Apple’s ‘walled garden’ looking out, it may be easy to believe that your expensive iOS device is more secure from hackers when compared to all other devices and setting a passcode our using Touch ID on your iPhone tends to be the most common first line …..
iOS Bug Calls 911
Gone are the days when everyone believed that Apple’s devices, such as iPhones, iPads and Macs, simply weren’t susceptible to malware or malicious remote interference from unscrupulous individuals. Granted, malware and software designed to take data from an iPhone is less common on iOS than it is on competing platforms, …..
To Share Or Not To Share Online? What You Need To Consider
A popular song. That hot new TV series. A digital photo of a sunset. The internet provides endless opportunities to access content created and owned by other people, but it’s not all free for the taking. The availability of unauthorized, copyrighted content makes illegal downloading and plagiarizing easy. That doesn’t …..
VOCM TechTalk – My Yahoo Account Was Hacked! Now What?
Tech Talk on VOCM is a weekly tech spot highlighting the latest tech news and gadget reviews. On this episode we discuss the ramifications of Yahoo getting hacked.
Yahoo Hack Leaves One Billion Accounts Compromised
Yahoo has fallen victim to the world’s biggest data breach and as a consequence, so has much of the world. The company says that 500 million accounts were exposed in a huge hack that it has said was carried out by a state-sponsored attacker. It is not only the largest hack …..
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