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Open-source software for managing health records; good idea or bad idea?

Security flaws in open-source platform expose nearly 100M health records Security researchers at Project Insecurity released a report Monday detailing 1... | 23 replies | Breaking News, Healthcare Industry IT, and General IT Security

It’s a bad day for a lot unsuspecting people.

Anatomy of a BGP Hijack on Amazon's Route 53 DNS Service ThousandEyes analysis of a cryptocurrency heist through a BGP hijack attack on Amazon’s Route 53 DNS service.

Thieves steal millions of PC Optimum points, go on shopping sprees CBC News interviewed eight people across Canada who say they've each had more than 100,000 points stolen from their online rewards accounts after Loblaws merged its two rewards programs — PC Plus and Shoppers Optimum — to form PC Optimum on Feb. 1.

Hopefully Microsoft will be making this a priority.

There’s a security flaw in Skype which is apparently too hard to fix right now Microsoft will build the fix into a future version of Skype

iOS 11 might be worth the upgrade for this one important feature.

How to set up and use Emergency SOS on your iPhone in iOS 11 How do you quickly call emergency services and notify your emergency contacts on your iPhone? With SOS on iOS 11.

Possibly another step closer

Eureka: UNSW makes quantum computing breakthrough thanks to research from 1998 A 'eureka moment' suggests a way over a hurdle that quantum computer scientists saw impeding future progress.

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Good information for anyone who uses SnapChat or knows someone who uses the application.

New Snapchat feature gives away users exact location | Watch News Videos Online Watch New Snapchat feature gives away users exact location Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

Shaw Internet / Phone Outage Should be resolved now. Teams identified an ACL was updated on multiple routers and was rolled back to restore services.

Apr 27 – National | Internet, WiFi, Telev... | Shaw Support Investigating Some customers nationally may be experiencing an interruption to Internet, Television and Home Phone services. We are

So, I've noticed a number of friends on my Facebook that are apparently "liking" pages that I was a little surprised that they My like. I'm not judging them, just didn't think that a 60+ year old lady would actually be continually liking "WWF wrestlers then and now".

Then, I started noticing with close friends and family, liking all sorts of pages that didn't seem to be pages they would like.

I did a little digging and found an article that may benefit just about anyone on Facebook in securing their information.

Have a read, hopefully you find it useful.

Stay safe!!

Why is Facebook saying I LIKE things that I didn't like? - Off the Wall Social Media If Facebook seems to like things for you that you didn't actually like, you may have a 3rd Party App connected to your Facebook account. Here's how to remove those apps.

For those that use hashtags, this article is a good reminder of how to use them properly and keep yourself and your family safe doing so.

5 things you should know about hashtags & your kids - Christie Dedman Hashtags have been around for years, thanks to Twitter. They are great when applied correctly but cumbersome and dangerous if used improperly. What am I talking about? I’m specifically talking about the dangers hashtags present when mixed with public photos of your children on Facebook and Instagra...