Marriott Starwood Data Breach Affects Over 500 Million Guests
Marriott now has the dubious honor of having suffered one of the worst breaches in history. Granted, the 500 million customer records recently stolen from the company pales in comparison to Yahoo's...
View ArticleAnother Huge Hack, This Time 100 Million Quora Users
Are you a Quora user? If so, you're certainly not alone. It is the internet's most popular question-and-answer website, which makes it a unique property in the social media ecosystem. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleGoogle Plus May Shut Down Early Due To New Vulnerability
If you're a Google Plus user, you're probably already aware that Google has plans to bring an end to the service. What you may not know is that recently, Google+ suffered another breach in a long...
View ArticleIf Your Password is On This List, Change It Now
The annual list of the worst passwords in use during 2018 has just been published by SplashData. This year's list features a number of the usual suspects, but there are also a few new entries. Here...
View ArticleMicrosoft May Be Replacing Their Edge Browser
Three years ago, Microsoft decided to retire their beleaguered Internet Explorer browser. It was a disaster, riddled with critical security flaws and technologically far behind Chrome and Firefox....
View ArticleNew Android Malware Can Drain Your PayPal Account
Do you own an Android device? Are you a PayPal user? If you answered yes to both of those questions, you have something new to worry about. A limited number of versions of an app called "Optimization...
View ArticleThis Mac Malware Takes Screenshots Of Your Computer
There's a new malware threat in the MacOS ecosystem called OSX.LamePyre. If you haven't heard of it yet, it belongs on your radar. At the moment, industry experts agree that it's more of a crude work...
View ArticleNew Phishing Attacks Look Like Emails From Apple
There's a new, widespread phishing campaign underway that you need to be aware of if you use the Apple App store at all. At this time, no one knows who's behind the campaign, but already, a surprising...
View ArticleFacebook Flaw Exposed Photos Belonging To Millions Of Users
Recently Facebook fessed up to a bug in their photo API that exposed the photos belonging to nearly seven million of the company's users to app developers. The way the photo API is supposed to work is...
View ArticleVirtualization Making It Safer To Open EXE Files On Windows
Microsoft recently announced an addition to Windows 10 that should make the lives of Enterprise and power users a whole lot easier. Running an unknown, untrusted .exe file on your machine can be an...
View ArticleRobocalls Increased Globally But Decreased In The U.S.
According to data collected by Truecaller, the number of robocalls worldwide increased by a staggering 300 percent in 2018, although they were down slightly in the U.S. This data, however, should be...
View ArticleTwitter May Have Been Hit By Another Data Breach
2018 hasn't been a great year for social media, with all the major platforms suffering a number of significant data breaches at various points in the year. Twitter alone has seen several, including...
View ArticleWindows 10 May Get Some New Useful Features
This spring, Windows 10 users will be treated to a raft of exciting new features. Currently, the company's massive test group of Windows Insiders is enjoying playing with them, but they'll be available...
View ArticleChromebook May Soon Allow Dual Boot With Windows 10
Chromebooks are fun, cool machines that are incredibly popular with students, hipsters, artists, and the like. However, the company hasn't been able to penetrate the Enterprise market with their...
View ArticleChromebook To Get Additional USB Security
Google is taking additional steps to protect its Chromebook user base. Currently, if a hacker has physical access to your machine, he or she could insert a flash drive in the USB port and run...
View ArticleNew Amazon Order Confirmation Emails Could Be Phishing Attempts
According to Alexa, Amazon is the 4th most visited website in the United States and ranks 8th worldwide. To say that it gets a lot of traffic every day would be an understatement, which is why a newly...
View ArticleNew Internet Explorer Exploit Currently Being Used By Attackers
Are you still using Internet Explorer? Now you have a new reason to consider switching to a more up to date browser. As most people know, Microsoft essentially gave up on Explorer after it failed to...
View ArticleWannacry Ransomware Continues To Be A Problem For Some
It's been the better part of two years since the outbreak of the Wannacry ransomware epidemic. Unfortunately, all this time later, some companies are still dealing with the fallout. According to the...
View ArticleAdware Continues To Be A Major Issue On Android Devices
Google has been busy in recent weeks. They've removed a staggering 85 apps from their Play Store when they discovered that they were pushing highly aggressive adware to the users who downloaded them....
View ArticleFlaws In Several Adobe Products Could Let Attackers In
Two new critical flaws have been discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader that require your urgent attention. In fact, the flaws were rated as so severe that the company broke with its tradition of...
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