Warn Your Employees About The New DocuSign Phishing Campaign
Phishing attacks tend to focus on executive level targets. They focus on high ranking targets who have considerable system access. That appears to be changing. A recent trend tracked by researchers from Avanan has revealed that nearly half of all phishing emails...
Continuous Scrolling Coming To Mobile Google Searches
Do you use Google Chrome on your phone? If so you may have found yourself frustrated more than once by having to tap the "see more results" button because you were unable to find what you were looking for in the first few search results. If you've ever experienced...
What Caused The Major Facebook Outage?
If you use Facebook then you are no doubt aware that recently the company experienced an outage that took the site offline for several hours. Many people initially assumed that the company had been hacked. However as the outage continued there were none of the...
Twitch Hack Was Much Bigger Than Expected
Are you a gamer or do you broadcast on Twitch for some other reason? If so be aware that the platform was recently hacked and the amount of information the attackers made off with is much more substantial than was originally estimated. Some of the data has now been...
Some AMD Chips Aren’t Performing Well With Windows 11
Do you have a computer powered by an AMD chipset? Are you excited to upgrade to Windows 11? If you answered yes to both of those questions you should know that at present some AMD processors are struggling to run Windows 11 smoothly. In fact a few processors have seen...
Google Forcing Accounts To Use Two Factor Authentication
Google recently announced that they're planning to auto-enroll some 150 million user accounts into two factor authentication (2FA). The company prefers the term two-step verification (2SV). The company had this to say about the planned move: "...because we know the...
New Firefox Browser Feature Appears To Be Adware
With the release of Firefox 92 back in September Mozilla made a change that may well doom the browser. If you use Firefox you have probably already noticed it. When you start typing an address you will find sponsored Firefox contextual suggestions in a drop-down list....
Hackers Can Take Control Of Some Electronic Diabetic Devices
Medical equipment provider Medtronic has issued an urgent recall order for insulin pump controllers belonging to their "MiniMed Paradigm" family. The company cited serious cyber security risks as the reason for the recall. The models in question are MMT-500 and...
New Dangerous Android Malware Is Infecting Millions
Researchers from Zimperium zLabs have detected a nasty, dangerous, global malware campaign that has managed to infect more than 10 million Android devices from around the world in more than 70 different countries. As with most malware campaigns this one relies on...
Sneaky Malware Stealing Sensitive Gamer Information On Gaming Sites
Are you a gamer? Do you have an account on Steam, EA Origin, or the Epic Games Store? If so there's an emerging threat you should be aware of. A new strain of malware is now being sold on the Dark Web. Discovered by researchers operating out of Kaspersky Labs the new...
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