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Today there is a mega ton of ransomware infecting going on.  Malware payloads are being pushed all over the place via ad networks and it's YUGE.  Ransomeware is simple, it encrypts your files and holds them hostage.  To get your data back, you pay the robbers via Bitcoin to reverse the mess...

So this Internet of Things (iOT) is pretty creepy.  I remember seeing fridges with internet connectivity many years ago and I was MEH!  that's idiotic about that then, and even moreso today. With the constant screen time most of society already has, who needs more e-garbage to chatter on the...

Bad guy goes using anonymous services to cause hell for ex and new fling.   Threats made.  FBI gets involved, all activity leads back to Private Internet Access, a VPN provider. PIA claims prior to not store information on customer activity.  FBI sends subpoena, PIA tells them uselessness...

Do we have Netflix users here? Others out there having issues connecting to Netflix recently?  Getting an annoying blocked message on devices.  Unsure if in my instance it dislikes VPN to remote server (which is a private IP and private VPN) or if my extensive block lists are contributing...

Excellent security dev here done by this gent to show weakness in Tor. Simply said, bits of data available even with Tor bundled browser originating from mouse and other hardware.  Enough to make you think plausible to use such to identify user as being the same user seen elsewhere. Over...

Staminus looks to be offline / reduced network currently. Anyone out there being effected?

Google is getting lots of heat for its long adhered to tax practices to "structure" "legally".  To lay folk, complicated funneling of proceeds to avoid tax liabilities, often in logical brains deemed tax avoidance and illegal. The UK has made Google pay $181 million USD for their misdeeds...

I am excited by the potential of this project.  It's early yet, so cutting edge and not polished if your OS and desktop isn't what they are building for. Shashlik allows you to run Android apps on Ubuntu, so long as you are running KDE.   Others, good luck, try it and maybe we can help kick...

So I am taking more to Twitter lately.   I dislike Twitter, and intend on trying to do something more with it just cause so much data ends up there. Was looking at the list of Tweets on my daily toilet role and Colorado (allegedly) based VPB Hosting went off the rails today.  This is the...

This is a good one.  Former corporate raider and Donald Trump shoe-in for cabinet role Carl Icahn is unloading XO to Verizon for $1.8 billion. The deal also includes potential leasing of wireless spectrum owned by XO and a future right to buy the spectrum...

Looking to the collective wisdom here for input on phone options and VOIP companies. Needing to light up a few phones with real phone number.  VOIP is preferred.  Not interested in another cellular/wireless phone. What are gals and guys using for VOIP that is priced pleasantly and works...

Saw the new banner for Time4VPS here on vpsBoard: Welcome to them! Been waiting and watching this brand.  Seeing if their deep discount model with generous discounts would sustain. Anyone around here use their high volume storage plans?   Looking for something in Europe for a project...

Google alum Marissa Myers has failed spectacularly over at Yahoo.  Currently Yahoo is slashing products and shuttering scores of services. The company is currently valued at $28 billion while $26 billion seems attributable to their investment in Alibaba. Potential buyers include: Verizon...

Long been blah about Uber the taxi alternative that is all the rage. Conceptually good but more of industry busting and wage murdering than anything. Many questioned their policies on hiring drivers or allowing such into their network for fares. Saturday in Kalamazoo, Michigan, some sicko...

Serverhub, a supporter of vpsBoard, has expanded to two more locations. The new locations are Chicago, Illinois, and Seattle, Washington. Serverhub is promoting the latest Xeon E3 v5 servers in both locations. site: http://serverhub.com

Popular cheap hosting provider Datashack appears to have discontinued colocation services. The former navigation items for colocation have been stripped from their site.  The old URL now redirects https://www.datashack.net/colocation/ to dedicated servers. Datashack was popular for cheap...

I find myself looking at weather sites too often.  Part of work and need to. Websites for weather are various states of bloat, plugins and  heavy to deal with.  I always have a slew of terminal windows open... so... This is a good new / recent project by @igor_chubin (on...

Evolving situation with the deceased killers in San Bernadino, California.  You remember these two gems that shot up their coworkers and killed a bunch of people at a work holiday party.  Loons hiding behind the veil of Islam, may I say wrongly. Well Apple is getting a dose of the DOJ in...

US District Judge Lucy Koh just torpedoed companies disclosing wrongly customer data. '... loss of personal information in the breach of Anthem constitutes harm under New York’s General Business Law ...' As in all breach cases, the prior standard has been that consumers needed to prove...

Three Group - a wireless 4G / cellular company in the United Kingdom and Italy has dropped a shoe on ads. "Three UK and Three Italy have successfully collaborated with Shine Technologies on implementing Shine’s ad blocking technologies in their networks." "We don't believe customers should...