Computer Safety & News

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2020/02/21/dell-sells-rsa-assets-for-2-billion.aspx Dell’s RSA security solutions businesses, including the RSA Conference, were bought by a consortium of companies for about $2 billion, according to Tuesday announcements.  The RSA purchase was led by Symphony Technology Group (STG), the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and AlpInvest Partners, according to an STG announcement, which described the deal as a “definitive […]

The annual 2020 RSA Conference is a chance to preview new security offerings & discuss latest trends in malware attacks.  The timeframe will be FEB 24-28 2020 in San Francisco https://www.pcmag.com/news/what-to-expect-at-rsac-2020 https://www.rsaconference.com/usa The Moscone Center here will soon be filled with security industry vendors and potential clients for the RSA Conference. The annual show largely focuses […]

Google Chrome in version 80 has introduced a new word or phrase link feature, that users should carefully evaluate to avoid privacy website tracking exposures https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/privacy-concerns-raised-over-new-google-chrome-feature/ With the release of Google Chrome 80, Google quietly slipped in a new feature that allows users to create a link directly to a specific word or phrase on […]

Lenovo & other vendors are moving to more advanced INTEL CPU chip sets that feature improved battery life & performance & smaller state-of-art “form factors” https://www.pcmag.com/news/lenovo-updates-thinkpads-with-10th-gen-chips  Lenovo is the latest to do so with a refresh of its ThinkPad range of laptops.   ThinkPad T laptops, which is Lenovo’s most successful ThinkPad series and referred to as the […]

While all internet crimes are bad, nonpayment or nondelivery Is the most frequent Cybercrime statistically. https://www.pcmag.com/news/state-by-state-cybercrime-nonpaymentnondelivery-is-the-worst-and-elderly Time for another dive into the giant set of stats provided by the FBI’s  Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) annual report from 2018 (the latest).  This time, the folks at Hotspot Shield/Pango took a look at the info state by state […]