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
Blog Computers Might Be Able To Smell In The Near Future April 2, 2020 by Vertical Axion Word has recently leaked out about an interesting project that’s ongoing at Intel’s research labs. The company has apparently built an algorithm that mirrors the brain’s activity to detect and identify smells. The company developed a computer chip for the project. Called a “neuromorphic” chip, it was designed to allow a computer to process information […] Read more » General Interest New Technology Recent News Technology News
Blog Financial Institution Worker Put User Information At Risk April 1, 2020 by Vertical Axion Noam Rotem, a researcher for vpnMentor, recently made a startling discovery. A database connected to a now defunct app called MCA Wizard was found unsecured on the web. It contained a staggering 425 GB of sensitive corporate financial data. The app, developed via a partnership between Argus Capital Funding and Advantage Capital Funding, is no […] Read more » Data Breach General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog New Google Translate Feature Rolled Out For Android Users March 31, 2020 by Vertical Axion Google Translate is one of the company’s most popular services, and most of the people who use it dream of the day when it’s a full blown Universal Translator. While that’s obviously still quite some distance away yet, the company has been steadily improving their offering. They recently upped the ante further with a new […] Read more » General Interest Google Recent News Technology News
Blog Coronavirus Health Notifications Being Used To Carry Malicious Threats March 30, 2020 by Vertical Axion A Pakistani-based hacking group that goes by a variety of names, including “Transparent Tribe,” “APT36,” “Mythic Leopard” and others has been discovered to be behind a particularly nasty attack recently. Researchers with QiAnXin’s RedDrip Team discovered a phishing campaign bearing the group’s stamp. This new campaign utilizes poisoned files that appear to be health advisories […] Read more » Business Advice Malware and Virus Protection Phishing Ransomware Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Hackers Targeting People Seeking Coronavirus Information On Health Sites March 28, 2020 by Vertical Axion Some people just want to watch the world burn. That seems to be the reason behind the recent attacks on the US Health and Human Services Department website, which serves as a clearinghouse for information relating to the Coronavirus outbreak. As the virus has spread, more and more people have been heading to the HHS.gov […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Another Week Another New Ransomware To Be Concerned About March 27, 2020 by Vertical Axion There’s a new strain of ransomware to put on your radar. This latest one was discovered by researchers working from SentinelLabs and it has been dubbed Nefilim. Based on the initial research, it seems to share significant portions of its code base with an older strain, Nemty 2.5. The two key differences between the two […] Read more » General Interest Ransomware Recent News Security Technology News
