What Does The Attack On Adobe Mean – WOT 196

Welcome to Episode 196 of The Waves of Tech.  This week we fill your ears with tech news and topics ranging from Amazon holiday shopping, baby health monitoring, discounted iPhone 5Cs, Chromecast updates, and a lengthy discussion on the Adobe hack on 3 million accounts.  Enjoy the podcast and be sure to head over the iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/waves-tech-technology-how/id313092770?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4) and provide the show a rating and review. Amazon The holiday shopping season is upon us, despite Halloween and Thanksgiving not even here yet.  One of the biggest online tech companies, Amazon, is gearing up by hiring nearly 70,000 seasonal workers to meet the consumer demands of online shopping.  Other firms, such as Wal-Mart and EBay, are expected to hiring thousands as well.  Let the online shopping extravaganza begin! Sproutling Sproutling is the latest in health-based tech gadget to focus on parents and their newborns.  This three-part system allows parents to monitor their child's heart rate, temperature, and more.  With the built in text or email notification system, parents can be alerted when their child awakes from a nap or when temperatures rise.  This is a great tool for parents, regardless of whether this is your first, second, or third child.  iPhone 5C Apple has experienced significant positive feedback from users regarding the iPhone 5C.  For something that was reviewed as some as being "cheap," it has been nothing of the sort.  Now, big box stores like Wal-Mart, Target, and Radio Shack are discounting the already discounted Apple products by upwards of $40!  As the holiday season approaches, this is a tactic of the stores to get consumers' feet in their stores. Hulu Plus Finally!! Hulu Plus subscribers can now use their accounts on Chromecast, Google latest video streaming dongle.  A major knock on Chromecast has been the lack of applications available for use.  As the unit gains traction and Google comes to financial agreements with streaming companies, it is slowly gathering a foothold in the home entertainment industry. The Adobe Hack It seems like every couple of months a company releases a statement discussing how thousands or millions of accounts have been compromised.  Personal information, credit card numbers, usernames, and passwords are the typically sensitive information that has been breached, stolen, and sometimes dispersed.  The latest Adobe hack compromised nearly 3 million accounts.  The question can be asked - who is winning the war on hacking and personal identity theft?  We trust companies to protect our personal information. That is part of the financial contract between you and the company.  What can we do as customers of these companies to protect ourselves when it seems like many times the company cannot protect our information for us?  Let us know what you think by heading over to @NetCastStudio or modernlifepodcastnetwork.com/contact (http://modernlifepodcastnetwork.com/contact).