Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Popular customer review service Yelp launched a new public bug bounty programme on 6 September, calling on white-hat hackers and security researchers to trawl through its websites and mobile app for security vulnerabilities that could potentially affect its users and The…
Fiat Chrysler offers hackers bounties to find tech bugs
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers participating in “bug bounty” programs are a little like bounty hunters in the Old West. Their guns have been replaced with computers (likely running Linux), and their targets are no longer cigar-chomping outlaws, but rather are potential software and security…
Louisiana Offers Its Homegrown Standards-Based Lessons to Teachers Nationwide – Education Week
Faced with a dearth of common-core-aligned English/language arts curricula, state education officials asked teachers to create a homegrown, online program—and made it free to all. View full post on Education Week: Bullying #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More The post Louisiana Offers Its Homegrown Standards-Based Lessons to Teachers Nationwide – Education…
Attorney General DeWine Offers Five Tips to Avoid Scams While Shopping Online
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As consumers shop online during Cyber Monday and throughout the holiday season, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is encouraging them to protect their personal information and avoid scams online. “It’s a busy time of year, but it’s important not to let…
INDIEGOGO PROJECT OFFERS DNA EDITING FOR THE HOME
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans CRISPR is the new darling of the genetics world, because it allows you to easily edit DNA. It is far more effective than previous techniques, being both precise and relatively easy to use. According to this IndieGoGo project, it is coming to…
T-Mobile promo offers four lines with 10 gigs of data each for $120/mo
T-Mobile’s rise in recent years has been thanks to the disruptive nature of its business model. Various plans and offers, including the ‘Un-Carrier’ initiative, have seen T-Mo gather a strong army of apparently loyal users. Indeed, the last we heard, the firm led by John Legere was outdoing AT&T, Sprint…
Sprint responds to T-Mobile’s trade-in promotion, offers the iPhone 6s for as little as $1 per month
While Verizon and AT&T are dueling out for the title of largest telecom operator in the US by subscriber count, Sprint and T-Mobile are currently engaged in a gloves-off battle for the third position. Unwilling to let T-Mobile claim a firm grip of the podium spot through its latest iPhone…
Don’t miss the Lumia 535 Smart Buyback and MobiKwik cash back offers if you’re in India
Earlier this month, Microsoft launched a ‘Lumia 535 Smart Buyback Offer’ in India in which you could exchange your old phone in a working condition, and buy a new Lumia 535 for ₹5,999 (US$ 90), inclusive of all taxes. This offer is available on purchase of Lumia 535 at all…
Microsoft’s Bing for Android offers its own contextual search feature right now
You might remember the Google Now on Tap feature that is coming with Android Marshmallow (still feels funny to type that). With this feature, you don’t have to leave the page you’re on to get more information from Google Now. For example, let’s say that you open an email on…
Emberify offers up 500 free copies each of Reminder Now and Inbox Zero
We’ve already seen one app giveaway this week, which featured QuickPost, but it’s time for another – thanks to BlackBerry 10 app developer Emberify. As the post title explains, Emberify is giving away 500 copies of both Reminder Now and Inbox Zero – both great handy tools to have to…
