Blog Huge Increase In Phishing And Malware Attacks Using Coronavirus April 14, 2020 by Vertical Axion Around the world, hundreds of millions of people are terrified of the current pandemic that’s raging. Most of those are currently self-quarantining at home and limiting their social contacts. Everyone is hungry for news and information. Sadly, hackers, scammers and other assorted criminals have wasted no time preying on this massive captive audience. According to […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Google Data Shows Impacts Of Covid-19 Shelter In Place Precaution April 13, 2020 by Vertical Axion Google is using the massive footprint in the smartphone ecosystem to help people understand the impacts that social distancing is having in the face of the global pandemic. Their new global Community Mobility Reports are both revealing and eye-opening. The graph was created from the first reports, which covers 131 countries and regions around the […] Read more » General Interest Google Recent News Technology
Blog Crowded WiFi Networks Could Get Better Pending FCC Vote April 11, 2020 by Vertical Axion Wireless connectivity is becoming a victim of its own success. Every year, the appetite for bandwidth grows, but of course, there’s only so much to go around. The recent shelter in place orders that have been issued by countries around the world has only added to the increasingly crowded spectrum. Even without that, based on […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Technology News
Blog Office 365 Making Changes To Accommodate Millions Working From Home April 10, 2020 by Vertical Axion Recently, Netflix announced that it was scaling back its streaming speeds to better handle the increased load brought on by millions of people around the world sitting at home due to the threat of the Corona Virus. Netflix isn’t the only company making such moves. Recently, Microsoft announced a raft of new and temporary changes […] Read more » Business & Finance Microsoft Office 365 Recent News Technology News
Blog Some HP Devices May Fail After 30,000 Hours Of Use April 9, 2020 by Vertical Axion Late last year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) issued a warning about some of the Solid State Drives they manufacture. The warning was that unless users downloaded a patch to the drive’s firmware, their drive could fail after more than 33,000 hours of running. Now, the company is back with a similar warning. A new flaw […] Read more » Branding General Interest Recent News Technology News
Blog iOS Update Includes iPhone And iPad Features And Fixes April 8, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you don’t normally prioritize updating your iPhone and iPad OS, you’re probably going to want to shift gears and grab version 13.4 as soon as possible. The latest versions of both OS variants contain a number of important bug fixes and convenience features that are simply too big and too significant to miss out […] Read more » Apple General Interest iPhone Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Employees Working From Home Turn To VPN During COVID April 7, 2020 by Vertical Axion It’s no secret that the global pandemic we’re all living through has changed a great many things about both work and home life. For one thing, work and home life are often the same now, with large numbers of people sheltering in place and working from home. Unfortunately, home networks aren’t anywhere near as secure […] Read more » Business & Finance General Interest Recent News Technology News
Blog Be On The Lookout As Astaroth Malware Makes A Comeback April 6, 2020 by Vertical Axion Are you familiar with Astaroth? If you’re a data security professional, you’ve probably at least heard the name. The group gained some notoriety last year when it came to light that they had developed a means of spreading “fileless malware” using legitimate Windows tools to infect machines around the world. The Windows Defender ATP team […] Read more » Business Advice General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Apple Update Blocks Safari Third Party Cookies By Default April 4, 2020 by Vertical Axion In May of 2019, a Google blog post encouraged all web browsers to adopt the approach of blocking third-party cookies by default. Google announced their own plans to do so, outlining a development strategy that would see Chrome and all Chromium-based browsers defaulting to that by 2022. The TOR browser was the first to make […] Read more » Apple Chrome General Interest Recent News Security
Blog Windows 10 Announces One Billion Active Devices April 3, 2020 by Vertical Axion Windows 10 is on a lot of devices around the world. In part, that’s because it’s a significantly better and more modern operating system than its predecessors. In addition, it’s partly because Microsoft has been aggressively pushing people to upgrade to Windows 10. While it took the company a bit longer to reach the magic […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Recent News Technology News Windows
