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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 user accounts from the governments around the world. This year’s figures have increased to 48,941 requests relating to 83,345 accounts. The company acceded to 65 […]
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 turns out, Yahoo’s estimates were wildly inaccurate. Literally every person who had a Yahoo account in 2013 was impacted, […]
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 the company issued a video-based mea culpa to its customers, but unfortunately, the situation for the company just got worse. Here’s the […]
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 continues to grow by leaps and bounds as well. Specifically, the SEC reported that hackers may have gained access to […]
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 wane as hackers went off in search of the “next new thing” to deploy against the unwitting public. Unfortunately, rumors of Locky’s […]
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 Tracking provides a vehicle tracking service. This is accomplished by mounting a small, unobtrusive device on your car […]
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 user’s go-to keystroke command to force-quit the issue, and surprisingly, Bill Gates said in a recent interview that it’s one of his […]
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 today: • Chrome • Firefox • Safari • Edge • Internet Explorer The results weren’t pretty. The new tool, […]
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 allowed the hackers to literally kill the patients who relied on them. This is hardly a new development, and the government has […]
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 is increasingly bleaker for conventional hard disk manufacturers. To help stem the tide and counter the threat, they’ve been […]
A Visionary Approach to Your Security
The purpose of an IT partner isn’t just to fix something when it is broken, it is to keep your people working and your data secure. Astral moves beyond traditional managed services by addressing all the key areas of cybersecurity in today’s complex landscape.
