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June 30, 2018 by Vertical Axion
File this one away under “confirming things we already knew.” A recent study conducted jointly by Blink and Trusona confirmed that people just don’t like passwords very much. Their study tracked the login behavior of 148 participants over a three-week …
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June 29, 2018 by Vertical Axion
What’s old is new again. Hackers have recently begun re-deploying a decade-old trick called ‘ZeroFont’ to get around Microsoft’s security filters and deliver phishing and spam emails to Office 365 email accounts. The gimmick? Zero-point fonts. As anyone with even …
June 28, 2018 by Vertical Axion
How many web apps do you have on your phone? Probably a ton. Here’s something you likely didn’t know. Based on the latest research from Positive Technologies, nearly half of them (48 percent) are vulnerable to unauthorized access. As bad …
June 27, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Malicious code can wind up on your PC or phone by any number of roads. Companies do their best to guard the digital passes, but invariably, things get missed and the hackers find a way in. It’s a constant battle, …
June 26, 2018 by Vertical Axion
More bad news for Intel. Yet another security flaw has been identified in the processors the company makes. This one is so newly discovered that the full technical details have yet to be released. Here’s what we know so far, …
June 25, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Being “number 1” isn’t always a good thing. Rapid7 has just published their third annual “National Exposure Index,” and unfortunately, the United States has the dubious honor of being the nation most at risk for a cyber attack on its …
June 23, 2018 by Vertical Axion
It’s the end of the line for Yahoo Messenger. As of July, it will be no more, marking the end of an era. The announcement comes just six months after AIM (the old AOL messaging program) was shut down. The …
June 22, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Facebook is in hot water again. Recently, the company admitted that while testing a new feature on the site, they inadvertently made public the posts of more than fourteen million users. The incident occurred between May 18th and May 22nd …
June 21, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Another week, another new threat. This time, in the form of a new strain of malware that researchers are calling InvisiMole. The new threat was discovered by researchers at ESET, who found it on a number of hacked computers in …
June 20, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Big changes are coming from Microsoft starting in July (exact date unknown), and it has potentially dire implications if you’re using some of the company’s older technology. Microsoft announced that in July, they’ll no longer provide forum-based support for a …
June 19, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Cyber-criminals around the world are increasingly focusing their attention on job seekers. According to the security firm Flashpoint, there has been a notable uptick in ploys involving phony job listings that attempt to get job seekers to give up personal …
June 18, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Another week, another high-profile data breach, but this one can be filed under “Missed Opportunity.” The site in question is “TicketFly,” which is a web-based event ticket sales website owned by a company called Eventbrite. The TicketFly website was down …
June 16, 2018 by Vertical Axion
A new study recently published by HPE Aruba called “The Right Technologies Unlock The Potential Of The Digital Workplace,” reveals some interesting details about technology in the workplace that’s worth paying attention to. The study was conducted by collecting feedback …
June 15, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Microsoft just made a big, significant purchase that has raised more than a few eyebrows. They just acquired GitHub for a hefty $7.5 billion. What makes the purchase interesting and potentially troublesome is that Microsoft is the world’s largest proprietary …
June 14, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Change is coming, and not everyone is happy about it. Recently, Google redesigned its G-mail interface, and since then, they’ve allowed their free users to opt into the new changes. G-Suite users may or may not see the option to …
June 13, 2018 by Vertical Axion
It seems like a new attack vector emerges on a weekly basis, and this week is no exception. The latest threat: Emails containing specialized audio files whose acoustic vibrations can damage your computer’s hard drive. This is possibly damaging to …
June 12, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Apple’s Legions of users love FaceTime, but there’s a problem with the highly popular app. It only allows you to see and talk to one person at a time. Apple fans have been clamoring for Group FaceTime for almost as …
June 11, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Cisco’s Talos Security Team has identified a new threat, and it’s a nasty one impacting more than half a million consumer-grade routers in the US. According to the Talos Team’s report, the new malware is impacting a broad cross-section of …
June 9, 2018 by Vertical Axion
ZDNet Researcher Ryan Stevenson recently found a big problem on T-Mobile’s website regarding an unprotected API. As a result of the flaw, untold millions of T-Mobile’s customers’ account information was left exposed and completely unprotected. Literally anyone who stumbled across …
June 8, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Microsoft’s stock price is surging, putting the company’s total valuation at $753 billion. This makes it the third most valuable company on the planet, behind Amazon (782 billion), Apple ($923 billion) and leaving Google in fourth place, valued at $739 …
June 7, 2018 by Vertical Axion
If you use Apple products, you may have noticed an annoying “feature”. If you’re using the messaging app on your phone and texting someone and then you move to your Mac and access the same program there, the conversation you …
June 6, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Karanbir Singh (a program manager at Microsoft) is on a mission: Kill the password. As he said in a recent blog post: “Nobody likes passwords. They are inconvenient, insecure, and expensive. In fact, we dislike them so much that we’ve …
June 5, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Coca-Cola is the latest company to fall victim to a data breach. Unlike some of the others that have recently made headlines, however, this one was conducted from within. In September 2017, an employee at one of the company’s subsidiaries …
June 4, 2018 by Vertical Axion
If you’ve been considering swapping out some of your old HDDs to SSDs, now is a great time to do so, thanks to the convergence of two factors. First is the fact that the manufacturers of SSDs have been making …
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