Wiscota Systems

05/24/2017

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/icelands-beautiful-except-tourists/

Cheap flights and 'Game of Thrones' conspired to make Iceland a trendy vacation destination. And the country's struggling to keep up.

05/23/2017

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/welcome-next-phase-facebook-backlash/

Privacy watchdogs think a damning leaked document about Facebook targeting insecure teens could help usher in new era in privacy protections.

05/16/2017

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/15/technology/ransomware-wannacry-explainer/

Using a computer virus to hold data hostage has been around for decades, but it just hit the big time with a massive global cyberattack.

05/15/2017

It won't stop here: On Friday, the world was hit by one of the biggest cyberattacks in recent history.

Got Windows? Get patched now! Experts fear today will bring along still more compromised systems.

https://s.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?e=c3RldmVAd2lzY290YS5uZXQ%3D&s=5919352e71885037c23951a1

05/09/2017

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/you-cannot-encrypt-your-face/524073/

Democracy may be impossible in a world where no dissent is anonymous.

05/02/2017

Ooops.

More related content at guardian dot com/us/technology

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/01/facebook-advertising-data-insecure-teens

Leaked documents said to describe how the social network shares psychological insights on young people with advertisers

04/25/2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/technology/personaltech/what-to-try-when-the-firefox-browser-stalls.html

A number of factors may be causing your web browser to lock up, but you might be able to find the culprit yourself with a little troubleshooting.

04/24/2017

http://www.clickondetroit.com/consumer/holiday-inn-crowne-plaza-hotels-suffer-data-breach

If you stayed at a popular hotel chain last year, you may need to keep a close eye on your credit cards. Intercontinental Hotels Group, which includes the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza brands, says more than 1,200 of its hotels were infected with malware that stole customer debit/credit card data bet...

04/19/2017

For your lunch hour: the new google Earth. Note: works best in Chrome.

https://earth.google.com/web/

Grab the helm and go on an adventure in the new Google Earth.

04/18/2017

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/explaining-dallas-siren-hack/

If you’ve been paying attention to the news then you might have heard of the recent Dallas tornado siren hack. Earlier in the month a hacker took control of 156 tornado warning sirens placed all around the city of Dallas, Texas in the United States. The sirens are activated via an RF control signal,...

04/14/2017

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/force-computer-vision/522720/

Machines can now see into the future, and we ignore them at our peril.

04/13/2017

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/google-is-using-artificial-intelligence-for-clip-art/522765/