Tech

If you have an iPhone or an Android, chances are that every single thing you do is being tracked, location by location. TODAY show national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen reports. This is a report from NBC News.

To all of our readers of Sarasotapost.com…..this is SERIOUS STUFF.   Don’t wait, CHANGE THE PASSWORDS to any and all accounts that you use “on line.”  ALL OF THEM….Bank accounts, credit card accounts, shopping on line accounts, etc.  DO IT NOW. More than 1.6 billion (AND MORE)…

In today’s digital age, it seems we can’t leave the house now without a smartphone or tablet just to get us through the day. In 2014, more than half the population in the USA had access to a smartphone – a worrying and fascinating statistic – and it’s largely thanks to the plethora of apps availabl…

Dots is like Candy Crush, that very colorful game, but better. And it’s free for Androids.  Vine – Twitter’s (TWTR) strange little video-sharing app is still figuring out exactly what it is, but it’s growing legion of experimenters are beginning to answer that question. Free for iPhones and A…

One of the ways hackers can overpower your computer’s defenses and steal your password is by using repetition.  It’s called a Brute- Force Attack.  It employs dictionary software in random text strings that keep combining and recombining English dictionary words with thousands of varying…

Have your friends recently texted you about spam originating from your Yahoo Mail account? If so, that may be because you (and many of your friends) were hacked. Yahoo acknowledged Thursday that attackers now own an undisclosed number of usernames and passwords to Yahoo Mail accounts. In a blog pos…

From The Asswociated Press:  NEW YORK — The U.S. is the juiciest target for hackers hunting credit card information. And experts say incidents like the recent data theft at Target’s stores will get worse before they get better. That’s in part because U.S. credit and debit cards rely on an easy…

With BlackBerry on life support, it’s time to accept the likelihood that there won’t be a BlackBerry a year from now. Your business will be in for a rude awakening if it relies on the once-mighty smartphone for mobile communication and productivity. You don’t need to abandon BlackBerry immediately…