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PCM25: Are We Making Ourselves Too Vulnerable Through Tech?
Sometimes the tech that makes our lives so much better can also lead us to a place of extreme vulnerability. That’s the running theme of episode 25 of the PC Mike podcast, where so much of the tech news these days seems to deal with other people trying to mess with the lives of other people – be it looking at highly personal photos and videos captured and stored on our devices to hijacking our actual cars and trucks. Take, for instance, the Jeep that was hacked as part of a story Wired magazine did this week. A couple of hackers were able to use the Jeep’s WiFi to gain complete…
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PCM009 PC Mike Podcast: Forget Wall St., What Apple’s Success Means to YOU!
Ever since becoming the company to make the most money ever during a three-month period, everyone’s been talking Apple. But here’s the thing: A lot of the discussion has been centered on Wall Street as opposed to the view from Main Street – what Apple’s success as a business means to the consumers who actually buy Apple products and services. That’s exactly what we talk about during this episode of the PC Mike Techcast with our special guest, Paul Sweeting, lead analyst at Gigaom Research and founder of Concurrent Media Strategies, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting and editorial services firm specializing in digital media technology and policy issues. “Apple needs to make big, category-defining, or…
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PCM002 Podcast: Exposing North Korea’s Top Secret Unit 121 Cyberwar Squad
In this episode of the PC Mike Techcast, I reveal little known details on North Korea’s elite and top secret Unit 121 cyber army that is suspected of the massive hacking of Sony Pictures. I report why this incident has sent chills down the back of Internet security experts and how a 1,800-member team of North Korean hackers operating from a Chinese hotel just over the North Korean border are hacking their way into numerous business and government computers across the U.S. Plus we talk tech in helping a listener stop his computer from locking up, we share a great app that lets you transfer data between all mobile devices,…
