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Big Fix Coming For Many Microsoft Vulnerabilities
If you don’t have your PCs set up for automatic updates, you’re definitely going to want to grab Microsoft’s latest, scheduled for release on their next “Patch Tuesday.” June’s Patch Tuesday 2017 is a...
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Windows XP Gets An Unexpected Security Update
Microsoft has recently issued another surprise patch to help protect the surprisingly large Windows XP user base. In this case, the patch is aimed at addressing security flaws used by the NSA and other...
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Can Your Car Be Hacked Just With A USB Stick?
Jay Turla has been a very busy man since purchasing his new Mazda vehicle. He’s been spending time researching hacks to his car’s infotainment system, and as with most other “smart” products on the...
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Majority Of Businesses Aren’t Prepared For IT Risks
Does your IT staff include personnel who are dedicated to compliance or cybersecurity? How confident are you that your team is prepared to take today’s security threats head on? How likely are you to...
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‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Shows Make TV Watching Interactive
It’s a trend that has been flitting at the edges of the entertainment industry for a few years now: the idea of interactive storytelling in TV and movies. The concept was born of deeply immersive video...
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Even Google Can Get Hacked
Google has a rock-solid reputation and an almost uncanny ability to ward off hacking efforts, but even they aren’t infallible. Even they can be hacked, as a recent incident involving Google News has...
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Buckle May Have Had Credit Cards Exposed For Six Months
Have you shopped at a clothing store called Buckle? If you were a patron of any of their 450+ stores during the period spanning from October 28, 2016 to April 14, 2017, then your credit card...
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Ransomware Named Petya May Be Next Wannacry
After the global Wannacry attack and Microsoft’s emergency patch to close the loopholes that made it possible, you might have been lulled into thinking that a similar attack was no longer possible....
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Amazon Ends Its Unlimited Cloud Storage Tier
All good things must eventually come to an end, and finally, Amazon has bowed to external pressure. The company has just announced the end of their unlimited cloud storage tier. Users who currently...
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Girl Scouts Add Cybersecurity Badge
The Girl Scouts are perhaps best known for their awesome cookies, but like their brother organization, the Boy Scouts, the girls in uniform do a lot more than just that. For the past 105 years, both...
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Banking Trojan Trickbot Sets Sights On Paypal Users
If you’ve never heard of a banking Trojan called Dyre, then consider yourself lucky. When Russian officials stormed the headquarters of the company that created it, it was heralded as one of the...
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Ransomware Infects Hosting Company; Decryption Costs A Million Dollars
A South Korean web hosting company called NAYANA has been the victim of what appears to be one of the largest, if not the largest ransomware attacks in the history of the internet. According to the...
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Unsecured Voter Database May Have Leaked 198 Million US Records
Since the 2016 election, there have been lots of hard questions asked about the sanctity of US elections, with mounting conjectural evidence that there was an active attempt by nation-state actors to...
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Watch Out For Latest Hacker Phishing Attempt On Facebook
If there’s one thing that’s true about the world’s hackers, it is that they are tireless and relentless when it comes to finding new and increasingly inventive ways to infiltrate a user’s system,...
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Gmail Will No Longer Be Scanned To Serve Google Ads
On its face, Google’s announcement that it will no longer be scanning Gmail inboxes to serve up more tightly targeted ads looks like a big win for privacy advocates. Dig a little deeper, though, and...
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A Third Of Former Employees Take Company Information With Them
How safe is your company’s data? According to a new survey released by tech giant Dell, it is not very safe. The statistics revealed by the survey are dismaying. Be sure you want to know before reading...
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Internet Crime Has Become A Billion Dollar Industry
Anyone who works in IT or has any interest in data security at all can tell you that the number of hacking attacks is on the rise. Worse than that, though, is the fact that the hackers themselves are...
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Google Gets Huge Fine From EU For Manipulating Search Results
Google is in trouble with the EU. This is nothing new. The search engine giant has been fighting an ongoing battle with the European Union for a number of years now over a variety of claims that...
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New Mobile Fingerprint Sensor Can Detect Blood Flow And Heartbeat
Qualcomm has recently announced the release of their next-generation fingerprint biometric technology for mobile devices, and on its face, it seems to be a significant improvement. The problem that the...
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Microsoft Releasing Feature To Help With Malicious Files Like Ransomware
Microsoft recently announced a new change coming to Windows Defender in the fall called “Controlled Folder Access.” As the company describes the feature, it should enable Windows Defender to prevent...
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