Holidays and other notable events bring out the spammers like ants at a picnic. Security companies and IT departments consistently report a large increase in malicious email during shopping seasons like Christmas or important world events like the Brexit vote […]
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Today’s traveler has never had it so good. Finding last-minute bargains on hotels and flights, getting instant and accurate travel directions, pulling dining recommendations on the fly, and staying in touch with family and loved ones back home are now
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Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg’s recent highly publicized social media account issues, most executives probably received a serious talking-to from their security chiefs about the need to frequently update and change their passwords on social media. While losing control of an
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It is ironic that no tech topic is as befuddling to people as the cloud, and yet in reality most of us use it in some form or another many times a day, via all the various apps and services
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Time Inc. confirmed just before the Memorial Day weekend that data was compromised from the MySpace social network. The company issued a statement that the compromised data is limited to MySpace usernames, passwords and email addresses from an old version
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The success of a phishing attack is essentially a function of just how authentic it looks. Security researchers at Barracuda have encountered a new phishing attack that targets Facebook business pages by posing as a Facebook compliance message that appears
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There’s no doubt that using social media communications can offer businesses tremendous business advantage in terms of reaching potential new customers and staying in good touch with the ones they have. In fact, the number of organizations now actively using
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Attempted theft online has become an everyday occurrence. Whether spammers are trying to steal your personal data, your corporate data, or your money, spear phishing has become the “go-to” method. This wasn’t always the case, but the threat landscape continues
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Today, some of the most advanced malware is used only a few times for very targeted attacks rather than the mass attacks of the past. In the past, the idea was to flood the networks with enough infected files that
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2015 was quite a year! Hacks and ransomware got personal. APT attacks and cybercrime-as-a service became widespread. The scary future of IoT hacking became a reality with the demonstration of self-driving car hacks. And, a new threat vector of mobile devices
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