Hacking has become the world’s current pain-in-the-neck, with recent attacks on Target, eBay, and WordPress – to name a few. Companies are doing their best to combat hackers and secure their customer’s private information, but in a world of intellectual cyberpunks it is becoming easier for them to attack-and this time the little blue bird … Read more
Have you changed your passwords since the last great internet security lapse a.k.a. Heartbleed ? If you didn’t, you should probably start changing your passwords. In the past two weeks eBay, WordPress and Spotify have reported that they have been hacked or there are vulnerabilities on their site. eBay- Last Wednesday, eBay’s database containing encrypted passwords had … Read more
Last month at the AZTB Lunch and Learn, AZ Tech Beat invited local data experts to discuss how to sift through an abundance of data to effectively grow a business. Tracy Diziere, a veteran marketing consultant, and Don Simpson, a business insights and analytics manager at Appointment-Plus, hacked into the key elements of data decision-making … Read more
Ever have just one item you needed to pick up at the store? You’re in a huge rush, but when you go to checkout, all the cash registers are backed up with lines and lines of people. Wouldn’t it be simpler to just scan the item with your phone and head out the door? The … Read more
Arizona now has its very first Bitcoin ATM located inside Bookmans Entertainment Exchange, the state’s chain media store that buys, sells and trades books, games, movies and music, at the Ina Road location in Tucson. It’s one of 145 Bitcoin ATMs distributed around the world and one of only 25 in the United States. Bitcoin … Read more
Have you had trouble accessing sites like Feedly and Evernote? Well, you can thank an annoying onslaught of DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks for that. Not to be confused with a hacking attempt, DDoS attacks, simply put, are when a wide-range group of attackers flood servers of a targeted website with so much traffic that legitimate … Read more
The Hacktivist group Anonymous launched its latest attack against sponsors of the FIFA World Cup 2014 as well as the Government of Brazil to protest the lavish spending of the event and treatment of local World Cup protesters. To date they have engaged in a DDoS attack against the World Cup site and sponsors such as … Read more
Children are exposed to technology at a younger age, so it makes sense that more kids are interested in computer programing and coding. “Kids are naturally interested in this area,” said Kelly Smith, founder of the Mesa Code Club. Teaching kids to code is more than just a hobby – it could have a positive impact … Read more
Contributing author Kyle Debruhl talks cyber security and simple ways to protect your identity, and wallet, from hackers.