Security

Review: Swann Solar Panel forSmart Security Camera Posted by Jason Cartwright on August 20th, 2018. 1 Swann's been making security cameras for a while now and which they typically run on batteries. While they last for a few months and are are easily removed from their magnetic base for charging,...

You’ve all heard of Kensington right? They’re the people that make that hardware port that help to physically secure valuable electronics, usually in public areas. They’ve just created a new docking station for the Surface Pro, known as the SD7000 Dual 4K Surface Pro Docking Station. The cute part...

Fortnite is the super popular 100-player game available on PS4, XB1, PC, Mac, and iOS. Right now its unavailable and users are understandably frustrated. 5 hours ago, developers Epic Games tweeted that they were taking servers offline for emergency maintenance. We’ve seen that story before and that language suggests...

This morning, Facebook CEO and Chairman, Mark Zuckerberg fronted a marathon joint hearing with the US Senate Judiciary Committee “Facebook, Social Media Privacy and the use and Abuse of Data”. Lasting more than 5 hours, Zuckerberg answered questions on how his company is responding to increasing concerns about privacy...

DroneShield, the company than make guns that’ll shot drones out of the sky, have announced that Queensland Police are buying multiple Droneguns for use during the XXI Commonwealth Games in Queensland in April 2018. Given the developments in unmanned technologies (read drone adoption and AI smarts), and the potential...

Securing your most valuable asset is an incredibly important thing to do right. There’s a lot of options on the table when it comes to security cameras, but in 2018 there’s an easily definable feature set that’s imperative to a product being considered up to the task. First off,...

Overnight Apple has released the latest update to their mobile OS, with iOS 11.2.2 delivering a security update that patches the Spectre security vulnerabilities. This isn’t something you need to debate about, get the update. For those technically minded, you can review the details of the security flaw that...

In the last week, there’s been news spreading across the industry about a hardware-level security issue with Intel processors. The fix for the CPU security flaw, was supposedly going to reduce the speed of your processor (and therefore your PC) anywhere between 5 and 30 percent. Intel says this...

Over the weekend the world was infected by malicious ransomware known as “WannaCrypt”. This software began in the UK and Spain and quickly spread across the globe. While there’s been limited public declaration (expect many are keeping quiet) that Australian users have been impacted on a large scale, it does speak...