Blog Known Senders Option In Google Calendar Decreases Spam Invites September 27, 2022 by Vertical Axion Recently, Google’s engineers introduced a small but important feature to their Calendar app. If you haven’t used the “known senders” option, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It allows you to toggle a setting that will filter out invites from people you don’t know, with an eye toward eliminating or drastically reducing […] Read more » Business & Finance General Interest Google Google Apps Recent News Technology News
Blog DuckDuckGo Email Privacy Service Beta Released September 26, 2022 by Vertical Axion DuckDuckGo has a reputation for protecting the privacy of its users far more than most other companies. Last year, the tiny search engine announced that they were experimenting with a free service designed to dodge email trackers as a means of further protecting the privacy of its users. The company’s Email Protection service works by […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection New Technology Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Apple Products Released at Far Out Event September 24, 2022 by Vertical Axion On September 7, 2022, Apple hosted its annual product release event at one pm Eastern Time (ET). Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, took the stage at the Far Out event held at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, to unveil a slew of brand-new and significantly enhanced devices. The iPhone 14 and several new smartwatches and […] Read more » Apple General Interest iPhone Recent News Technology News
Blog Microsoft Teams Vulnerability Discovered September 23, 2022 by Vertical Axion Microsoft Teams is a part of the 365 product family and is used by more than 270 million people for exchanging text messages, videoconferencing, and file storage. In August of 2022, the team at Vectra Protect discovered a post-exploitation vulnerability in the plaintext storage disk used by Microsoft Teams while conducting research for a client. […] Read more » Microsoft Recent News Security Technology Technology News
Blog Lenovo Issues Important Update September 22, 2022 by Vertical Axion Lenovo issued a security notice informing customers of multiple serious BIOS vulnerabilities affecting hundreds of Lenovo devices across various models (Desktop, All in One, IdeaCentre, Legion, ThinkCentre, ThinkPad, ThinkAgile, ThinkStation, ThinkSystem). Exploiting the vulnerabilities might result in the disclosure of sensitive information, an increase in privileges, a denial of service, and possibly even the execution […] Read more » Security Technology News
Blog Uber Hacked Again September 21, 2022 by Vertical Axion An unknown hacker, who claims to be eighteen years old, acquired administrative access to Uber’s corporate network and proprietary internal tools on Thursday, September 15, 2022. On September 15, 2022, at 6:25 pm PT, Uber issued a statement on Twitter that it was “responding to a cybersecurity incident.” An attacker gained access to the account […] Read more » Data Breach Security Technology News
Blog Google Leaving IoT Services September 20, 2022 by Vertical Axion Tech giant Google recently announced that it’s closing the doors on its IoT Core service. Their stated reason for doing so was that their strategic partners can better manage customers’ IoT services and devices. Time will tell if the company’s decision was a good one. Another tech giant, Microsoft, is wasting no time and is […] Read more » General Interest Google Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Windows 11 Gets New Taskbar Overflow Option September 19, 2022 by Vertical Axion Are you the type of person who is in the habit of keeping all their apps open? If so, you’re going to love a recent addition to Windows 11. In a bid to make finding your open apps easier, once you’ve run out of room on the Windows Taskbar, they’ve introduced a new “taskbar overflow” […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft New Technology Productivity Recent News Windows Windows 11
Blog Cyber Security Best Practices For Businesses September 17, 2022 by Vertical Axion Smaller companies often struggle to develop and invest in robust IT security systems, which can leave them relatively more vulnerable to cyber attacks. If that’s the situation you’re in and you’re trying to decide what to invest in and where to use the money that you have to spend on IT security, here’s a quick […] Read more » Business & Finance Business Advice General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security
Blog Zoom Outage Reported September 16, 2022 by Vertical Axion Recently Zoom, a popular, cloud-based communications platform used for online meetings and video conferencing, experienced an outage that impacted tens of thousands of users worldwide. The issue began shortly after 8:00 am PDT on Thursday, September 15, 2022, when users reported that they could not log in or join meetings. At 8:17 PDT, the company […] Read more » Business & Finance Productivity Recent News Technology Technology News
