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Display Widgets WordPress Plugin Gives Hackers Access
WordPress is the most popular CMS on the planet. It has been the reigning king of websites for years, and all indications are that it will continue to be so. Unfortunately, there’s trouble brewing in...
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Malware Is Being Loaded On Computers To Mine For CryptoCurrencies
Since the development of BitCoin, cyrptocurrencies have seen a tremendous surge in popularity. In fact, in recent months, the value of all the major cryptocurrencies currently available has spiked,...
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Glass May Replace Aluminum In Future Spinning Hard Drives
Manufacturers of hard disks are in trouble and they know it. They have been since the development of SSDs, and as these newer disks grow in capacity and continue to see their prices fall, the outlook...
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More Medical Devices Are Found To Be Vulnerable To Hacking
Things continue to worsen on the smart medical device front. Recently, the USDA issued a recall order on six different models of pacemakers, all of which were vulnerable to hacks that would have...
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Apple Safari Browser May Have Security Issues According To Google
Google’s Project Zero Team has created a new tool for testing web browsers in order to gauge how secure they are. The team recently conducted an extensive test on the top five web browsers in use...
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Bill Gates’ One Windows Regret: CTRL, ALT, DELETE
Control-Alt-Delete. It’s a series of keystrokes that pretty much everyone who has ever used a Windows PC knows well. It is, after all, your escape hatch. When the program starts misbehaving, it’s a...
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Car Tracking Device Company Had Its Passwords Leaked
We’ve seen a lot of hacking attacks so far this year, but the successful breach of SVR Tracking may take the prize as the most invasive attack of 2017. If you’re not familiar with the company, SVR...
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Be Careful – Fake Amazon Emails Could Hold Locky Ransomware
For a time, it seemed we had reached the high-water mark where Locky Ransomware was concerned. After the big, global attack earlier this year, interest in that particular strain of ransomware seemed to...
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Hackers May Have Accessed Corporate Document Filings At The SEC
The hackers of the world have been busy recently, but this latest report from the SEC shows that not only has the number of their attacks been increasing, but also that the level of sophistication...
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Did Equifax Send Concerned Users To A Phishing Site?
By now, you’ve probably heard that Equifax recently suffered a massive data breach which left them with a considerable amount of egg on their faces. The investigation into that matter is ongoing, and...
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Literally Every Yahoo Email User Was Hacked In 2013 Breach
Late last year, Yahoo announced that it was the victim of the largest data breach in history. It impacted, by their initial estimates, fully one third of their user base, some one billion users. As it...
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Google Personal Data Requests Are On The Rise
Google’s latest Transparency Report is out, and the results have raised concerns with privacy advocates from around the world. This time last year, Google received 44,943 requests relating to 76,713...
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Hackers Infiltrate Deloitte Accounting Firm
Deloitte is not exactly a household name. In fact, unless you use the company’s services, you may not have ever heard of them, even though they’re one of the largest accounting firms in the world. The...
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MAC Computers Are Still Suffering From EFI Hack
One of the first, best pieces of advice computer owners get is to always keep their operating system up to date. It’s sound advice, because OS manufacturers generally do a good job of responding to new...
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New Malware Can Infect Computers, Even With Windows Defender
Researchers at the security firm CyberArk have discovered a new attack vector they’ve dubbed “Illusion Gap.” While it’s somewhat tricky for a hacker to implement, when it works, it can be devastatingly...
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Whole Foods Reports Credit Card Breach
It seems that hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear about another high-profile data breach. This time in the hot seat, we find Amazon-owned Whole Foods. Specifically, we find Whole Foods Market...
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Equifax Announces Another 2+ Million Were Affected By Breach
Equifax’s problems just keep getting worse. Not long ago, the company suffered a major data breach that ultimately resulted in the CEO stepping down and a painful congressional grilling. Initial...
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ATMs Continue To Be Huge Target For Hackers
Hackers are the new bank robbers in a very literal sense. Increasingly, hackers have taken to infiltrating bank networks specifically for the purpose of infecting ATMs attached to their network with...
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Microsoft Drops Groove Music Pass Sending Customers To Spotify
Groove Music has had a short, troubled life. It started out as Zune Music, but Microsoft bought it in 2012, promptly rebranding it as Xbox Music before changing its name again to Groove. Now, the...
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New WiFi Issue Could Affect Millions Of Users And Devices
Security researchers have found a new critical security flaw dubbed “Krack” (Key Reinstallation Attacks) that affects literally every WiFi router and smart phone in use today. The reason? The security...
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