Ai Hacking Protection: Cyber Security Experts Are Changing How We Do Passwords

Mercury Broadband has officially opened its Ann Arbor Service Center.

If you use the same password for everything, from Netflix to your bank account, you are a prime target for hackers. That’s why password protection is so important for you and those around you.

What is catfishing and what are the best ways to prevent it?

Eric Frederick will serve as the very first chief connectivity officer for the Michigan High-Speed Internet Office (MIHI).

Working from home is great, and remote workers in Tree Town are living the good life.

The Biden Administration has announced that Native tribes across the United States will receive grants to extend internet access.

Censys is a leading provider of continuous attack surface management.

The company helps organizations monitor and access risks across their internet assets to prevent unwanted cyber-attacks and vulnerabilities.

It seems as though Wordle has swept the internet: Everywhere you turn, you see people posting that little box grid, showing off their final score, and what it took to get there.

Over the past few weeks, you may have seen people share an image on social media like the one seen above, with the word “Wordle” attached to it, and been very confused.

Look, life as we know it right now is pretty insane. Omicron is raging across the country, it didn’t even feel like 2021 happened and America’s sweetheart, Betty White, is dead.

At the end of each year, Google releases a list of the most popular search terms by country for that year.

Michigan is expanding a program that helps keep kids safe from certain ads in text and email to now include social media accounts.

University of Michigan campus police will increase the number of security patrols following the shooting threat.

The University of Michigan Police Department is investigating a message posted on a Russian-operated confessions website indicating an intent to carry out an active shooter incident targeting women on campus October 4 with the year not specified.

Due to an ongoing dispute between Google and NBCUniversal, several channels including NBC may be left off of YouTube TV.

It’s a problem across the country including right here in Metro Detroit. School districts targeted by hackers.

County officials are urging anyone struggling to pay rent to apply for CERA benefits.

The grant will be accompanied by $600,000 in local funding for the effort.

The grant will be accompanied by $600,000 in local funding for the effort.

Allconnect has named the midsized college town as fourth most connected on it’s “Top connected college towns in 2021″ list.

Detroit Area Agency on Aging, Detroit Housing Commission, Focus HOPE, Matrix Human Services

Sunday, June 20, 2021 episode of Tech Time.

Amazon is launching a new feature designed to link the internet bandwidth of neighbors and create a network called the “Sidewalk.”

A new federal program will help low-income Michigan residents pay their internet bill amid the coronavirus pandemic.

We do not live in a world of hate -- but these days, it certainly feels that way.

Parents of teens or tweens have probably heard of Roblox.

Parks and public spaces in Downtown Detroit will soon have access to free high-speed internet.

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)Internet users across the northeast U.S. experienced widespread outages for several hours Tuesday, interrupting work and school because of an unspecified Verizon network issue. “An internet issue impacting the quality of our Fios service throughout the Northeast has been resolved," said spokesman Rich Young in an emailed statement Tuesday afternoon. People posting on Twitter reported having issues connecting with various online services in the region stretching from Washington, D.C., to Boston. Comcast, another major internet service provider, said it had not observed problems with its network Tuesday. AT&T said it does not supply home internet in the northeast and customers were not affected.

January is often a month people clear clutter from their homes, making room for new holiday gifts. A popular way to unload unwanted stuff is to sell it online on sites like Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist. However, the Better Business Bureau warns that there is an overpayment scam targeting people selling their goods. In this scam, a buyer will ask for the extra money back. The Better Business Bureau recommends never shipping an item before being paid for it, be wary of offers that are too good to be true and watch out for counterfeit emails.

Schools within the Pinckney Community Schools district are closed Tuesday due to an internet outage. We need to close school today (11/24) as we have no internet access, which is crippling our entire system. We have over 1,300 students learning virtually and with over 50% of our students not being able to learn, we cannot count the day. This has been a countywide issue and is a result of a large fiber being completely cut and will not be fixed anytime soon. We have no way of communicating with students virtually and can’t access our learning tools.”More: Livingston County news

Even if you make a mistake, pulling the plug on your social media accounts is also a bad idea. READ: More Americans stepping away from social media during pandemic for sake of mental healthUmesh Ramakrishnan runs a company that does social media searches of job candidates and social media is the first place a potential employer goes to check you out. Try not to do that in the digital world. You might be thinking the answer is to shut down all of your social media accounts and stay off the grid. '”You have to create a social media presence that won’t embarrass you when someone comes looking.

Fleetwood Mac’s classic hit “Dreams,” sung by the witchy Stevie Nicks, is having a breath of new life, thanks to a TikTok that recently went viral. He’s just enjoying life and jamming out to some Fleetwood Mac. The TikTok blew up on social media, and even Fleetwood Mac’s Twitter account took notice, and tweeted “We love this!” to all of its followers. As if this story couldn’t get any better, Fleetwood Mac’s drummer, Mick Fleetwood, recently joined TikTok so he could recreate the now famous video. Now twirl, Stevie Nicks, twirl!

That’s why the Wayne-Westland Community Schools District has found a unique way to get its children to school while staying at home. On another day, at another time in history, school buses would be bringing children to school, but amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the school buses in Westland are delivering school to the children. The Wayne-Westland district has about 10,000 students learning remotely. In the mornings, 21 buses are deployed to various communities in the Wayne-Westland Community Schools district and, during school hours, the buses beome beacons for technology. The Wayne-Westland Community School District has the big yellow bus hotspot program funded through the rest of the year and, if needed, will find additional funding next year.

ANN ARBOR The Ypsilanti District Library and the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development in Ann Arbor have received over $490,000 in combined grant monies to strengthen library services and community connectedness. The Ypsilanti District Library received $249,788 in grant funding, which will develop its early literacy program, TALK: Text and Learn for Kindergarten. Ann Arbor-based not-for-profit organization University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, also known as Internet2, received a total of $242,640. The grant funding will go towards improving the organizations Broadband Toolkit and custom Broadband Improvement Plan. The two resources help librarians understand broadband infrastructure and internal information technology environments, as well as advocate for library broadband infrastructure needs.

DETROIT Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans announced Wednesday a new initiative to provide digital access to every Detroiter within the next five years. Rocket Mortgage Classic and Rocket Mortgages new Changing the Course initiative aims to provide Detroiters access to the internet, technology and digital literacy training that is the baseline for education and opportunity in todays economy.Officials say as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic overtook Detroit, it unveiled unaddressed, underlying problems facing the city -- with internet access among the most prominent. Detroiters deserve better.Officials say among U.S. cities with more than 100,000 households, Detroit already ranks as the least connected in the country. The Rocket Giving Fund will specifically invest in organizations and infrastructure that will make 5G internet technology available across Detroit, officials say. You can read the full announcement from Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans here.