Stay Safe While Shopping Online This Holiday Season
Black Friday is almost here, and while shoppers are hunting for bargains, scammers are working overtime. The reality is that the holidays are prime time for cybercriminals. They're counting on people being [...]
FRONTLINE EDUCATION DATA BREACH
If you’ve got kids in school here in Massachusetts, check your mailbox. Frontline Education — the software company used by thousands of K‑12 districts nationwide — has started sending out breach letters [...]
Quest Laboratories Cyber Attack
One of America's largest medical testing companies is investigating a cybersecurity incident. Quest Diagnostics disclosed on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, that it discovered unauthorized access to its Quanum Lab Services Manager (LSM) [...]
Here’s a story that’ll make you check your Amazon account tonight
A woman bought a pair of those butt-scrunch leggings on Amazon. Later, she discovered Amazon had apparently decided that meant she had, quote, "flat buttocks." She found the note hidden in her [...]
Muse, Dots, and Claude – Oh My!
The AI industry seems to be moving away from cold, technical product names and toward names that sound like pets, friends, or cartoon characters. Some examples: Dots from OpenAI: colorful blob-like AI [...]
The Fake App Download Scam
Here's a scam making the rounds on Facebook and Instagram that every smartphone user should know about. Let's say you're scrolling through social media and suddenly see an ad for Disney+, Delta [...]
September’s SUPER PATCH Tuesday
"Microsoft is now using AI like a digital security guard that patrols Windows looking for weak spots. When it finds one, it alerts engineers so they can fix the problem before hackers have a chance [...]
Firefox Nova vs Chrome vs Edge (2026)
There’s something new happening in the browser wars with Firefox redesigning its flagship browser. Firefox’s Nova redesign gives it a very different personality compared with Chrome and Edge — and the contrast [...]
Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Outage severely affect users across the country.
The Microsoft Outlook/Exchange outage (tracked internally by Microsoft as EX1464935) is a major, ongoing authentication‑related failure affecting Exchange Online, the cloud backend that powers Outlook for Microsoft 365 users. This is a widespread, multi‑hour [...]
TikTok’s $400 Million Wake Up Call: What Parents and Everyday Users Need to Know
If your kid has ever begged to use TikTok, here’s the part you probably didn’t know: the app was quietly collecting data from millions of children — and now it’s paying $400 million for [...]
Your Phone Probably Isn’t Listening to You… But The Truth Is Even More Disturbing
Most of us have already decided that our phone is spying on us. The surprise is that researchers studied over 17,000 apps and found no evidence of widespread secret audio recording for [...]
Time for a Reality Check: Is There Really a “RAM Crisis”?
Short answer: Yes, but with some nuance. Samsung has publicly stated that memory supply constraints are expected to persist through 2028 and become even more severe in 2027. The primary driver is [...]
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