Good news! Your time spent playing Fruit Ninja just might be useful when crafting your influence online. That is if you can abstractly take your slice and dice skills to a piece of content to produce an intricate multimedia campaign. Matthew O’Brien, founder of Mint Social, was a super ninja at AZ Tech Beat’s Lunch and Learn when he … Read more
Would you like a side of tech with your meal? Across the country, restaurants are spicing up their offerings by quickly implementing new ordering systems, payment systems and entertainment via tablets, apps and interactive tables. In an effort to make customers’ dining experience easier and more relaxed, as well as to cut service costs, chain … Read more
The U.S. Secret Service arrested a Russian man Saturday on charges relating to hacking into cash register systems at retailers throughout the United States for two years–and the Phoenix Zoo was among the victims. According to Linda Hardwick, director of communications for the Phoenix Zoo, the zoo was informed of a data breach in early … 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
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
HolidayJS is an all-day holiday code party in the heart of the desert at the University of Advancing Technology on December 14th. It kicks off with cutting-edge JavaScript talks in the morning and progresses to a full on Hackathon where teams will compete for top of the line prizes using Node.js, HTML 5 and front-end JavaScript. Prizes, tech swag, food and drinks will … Read more
This weekend, Gangplank Chandler hosted the National Day of Hacking. The two-day event consisted of community members brainstorming ways to use public data in order to improve their own community without the need of help from politicians or businesses. On Saturday, participants conceptualized new ways to use census data, work with local farmers’ markets, and … Read more
Contributing author Kyle Debruhl shares tips to help your company protect against cyber attacks against your company in our Cyber Security series.