| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.08.2024 |
One year after wildfire, HUD extends assistance timeline to those rebuilding homes on Maui | The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on Thursday announced an expansion of relief measures to homeowners on the Hawaiian island of Maui who are seeking to rebuild single-fam... |
| 05.08.2024 |
Maui wildfire plaintiffs reach $4 billion settlement | More than 10,000 plaintiffs — including homeowners, businesses and other individuals — will receive a collective $4 billion settlement following a devastating wildfire on the Hawaiian island of Maui that killed 102 people and destroyed the ... |
| 22.04.2024 | Over 50% internet users dissatisfied with data speeds, connectivity: Survey | - |
| 16.04.2024 | Kamehameha Highway at Shark’s Cove closed due to leaning pole | Kamehameha Highway has been closed in both directions by Shark’s Cove on Oahu’s North Shore due to a leaning telephone pole, according to state officials.
Traffic will be contraflowed around the work area through the parking lot at Shark’s ... |
| 19.02.2019 | Tech View: SD-WAN technology offers responsive, flexible networks | Ken Van Orman
Data gives businesses their competitive edge, and today many businesses transfer increasingly large amounts of data between the cloud, data centers, offices and other locations. As data moves from residing on servers located a... |
| 13.02.2019 | Hawaiian Telcom to pay for volunteering | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Telecommunications company Hawaiian Telcom on Tuesday announced the launch of its employee volunteer program, Malama Hours, which gives all full-time employees up to 40 ... |
| 17.04.2018 | Vigilance guards against ID theft and tax refund fraud | Today is the deadline to file your 2017 tax return. We squeezed out a few extra days thanks to a holiday celebrated in the District of Columbia (the deadline for tax filing cannot occur on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday).
Earlier this ... |
| 26.12.2017 | ‘Whaling’ scam targets organizations’ biggest fish | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
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Unlike phishing, which casts a wide net, BEC scams are highly targeted and rely almost entirely on social engineering to trap victims. Scammers often target comp... |
| 28.11.2017 | Hawaiian Telcom expanding broadband in rural areas | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Hawaiian Telcom received Connect America Fund support and combined it with our own investment to expand broadband in rural areas — mostly on the Big Island — defined by ... |
| 31.10.2017 | Cybersecurity awareness should be everyone’s business | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Since 2004, National Cyber Security Awareness Month has been observed in October to drive home the message that securing the internet is everyone’s responsibility. Read ... |
| 08.08.2017 | Fiber network linking Asia, U.S. goes online this month | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Most of us depend on broadband access every day, at work and at home. Read more
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| 10.07.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, July 10 | OPEN MIC
Good morning. Lots of feedback over the last few weeks of newsletters, so this will be a two-parter. Today we’re starting with reader comments on the past few weeks of news about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley…
Paid Content Yo... |
| 21.02.2017 | Observe employees’ actions to eliminate insider threats | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Recent political news has highlighted how unauthorized leaks of sensitive information can cause economic harm to a company, embarrass an individual to the point of requi... |
| 24.01.2017 | Government playing a role in adoption of cybersecurity | Software development is currently unregulated, which has upsides and downsides. But there are indications that this may be about to change.
On Jan. 5 the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Taiwanese-based computer networking e... |
| 27.12.2016 | Cybersecurity headlined tech news in 2016 | There was a lot of bad news relating to cybersecurity this year. We had the largest breach ever, involving more than a billion Yahoo user accounts, and the largest distributed denial of service attack, which disrupted business operations na... |
| 29.11.2016 | Devices controlled by voices always recording their users | Seamless always-on voice control of our devices is the consistent indicator of a technologically advanced culture in TV shows and movies. From “The Jetsons” and “Star Trek” to “Ex Machina,” the demonstrated interactions and communications w... |
| 04.10.2016 | Range of cybersecurity tips will help keep devices safe | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The purpose of this annual campaign is to raise awareness about cybersecurity. Below are my top five tips. Read more
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| 06.09.2016 | Caution needs to temper rush to smart machines | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
The simultaneous rise and convergence of key technologies is finally accelerating the development of capabilities we dreamed about decades ago: virtual reality (VR) and ... |
| 17.05.2016 | Passwords are not gone yet, so vigilance is still essential | Bill Gates predicted the death of the password in 2004, and others have wished for its demise over the years. However, only now are we starting to see passwords being incrementally replaced in the technology we use. For example, I solely re... |
| 03.05.2016 | Police can aid both finders and owners of lost property | Question: How can one locate an owner when one finds things like keys, jewelry, billfold, etc. on the sidewalk, on the beach or the park?
Answer: Sometimes it’s easy to identify to whom the item belongs, in which case you can contact the ow... |
| 23.08.2015 | Statewide flash flood watch, brown water advisory | NOAA / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
This satellite image taken Monday morning shows heavy rain over Oahu and Maui counties created by moisture coming up from the south and Tropical Depression Kilo, lower right. In the upper right is Tropical St... |
| 02.06.2014 | Hawaiian Telcom tallies 46 places it transmits TV | Hawaiian Telcom is closer to going Oahu-wide with its television and high-speed Internet service.
ALREADY PLUGGED IN
Communities served by Hawaiian Telcom’s TV service:
Alakea
Aiea
Aina Haina
Downtown
Ewa/Ewa Beach
Haleiwa
Hauula
Hawaii Kai... |
| 09.01.2012 | Hawaiian Telcom Selects Calix for Broadband Network Transformation Initiatives | Calix surpasses the 1000-customer mark including the addition of the 10th largest U.S. ILEC
PETALUMA, CA - January 9, 2012 - Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that Hawaiian Telcom, the largest full-service provider of communications ... |
| - | HPD says 911 phone service is working again | BRUCE ASATO /JAN. 15, 2015
Jeris Nakamasu works at a police dispatch station in the Honolulu Police Department Communications Division.
A software glitch caused the intermittent failure of telephone calls statewide for eight hours today, an... |
| - | Parents should teach children responsible use of social media | ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
Social networking platforms are a part of children’s lives, and the best approach is to teach them to use them responsibly when parents feel they are ready.
A recent survey by Fluent identified YouTube, Instagram, Snap... |
| - | Stay safe this summer on the internet and devices | June is National Internet Safety Month, which is the perfect opportunity to underscore our personal responsibility as technology users in keeping our devices and the internet safe.
Just as we teach our kids to look both ways before they cro... |
| - | Software updates are vital, as global cyberattack proves | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
More than four years ago, on April 23, 2013, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser published the Tech View column “Aggressive, elusive hackers hold computers for ransom,” written... |
| - | Vigilance is prime defense against influx of fake news | References to fake news have certainly increased over the last two years. What is fake news? According to Merriam-Webster, fake news is simply material reported by news sources that is false or counterfeit. As a result of people trusting th... |
| - | Cloud-based services can help businesses leverage sales data | We live in a digital age where every transaction is recorded and becomes instantly available for analytics. Among a multitude of metrics, businesses can track what customers are buying, when they’re making purchases, and how they’re hearing... |
| - | Telecommunications providers in Hawaii prepare for Hurricane Lane | Hawaii’s telecommunications providers assured customers that they are prepared for Hurricane Lane, but will only be able to restore any potential loss to Internet and mobile phone services once conditions are safe.
At the same time, Gov. Da... |
| - | Tech View: Adding workplace flexibility is essential for businesses | COURTESY HAWAIIAN TELCOM
The key to creating a balance between what employees want and what businesses need is in finding the right tools. Hawaiian Telcom University at blog.hawaiiantel.com/connections offers “Workspace Modernization Strate... |
| - | Airtight encryption makes cybersecurity a challenge | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
If I were to choose a word that encapsulates the focus of the cybersecurity industry for the last two years, it would be “encryption.” However, the boon in increased enc... |
| - | Train staff to spot phishing by sending it dummy emails | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
The recent worldwide ransomware attacks put a spotlight on two key cybersecurity issues. Read more
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| - | Tech View: Niche cyberattacks now pervasive menace to all | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Ransomware attacks, where malicious software encrypts a victim’s data and demands a ransom for decryption, have transitioned from a niche cyberthreat to a pervasive one.... |
