Blog Security Issues Increasing With More People Working From Home September 4, 2020 by Vertical Axion According to a recently published report by Malwarebytes, the global pandemic may be behind the recent surge in cyberattacks against businesses of all sizes. While it wasn’t immediately apparent, the pandemic forced businesses around the world to respond quickly to the emerging pandemic. As a result, tens of millions of workers began working from home. […] Read more » Business & Finance General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Toshiba Will No Longer Make Laptops August 27, 2020 by Vertical Axion For the past three decades, Toshiba has been a major player in the laptop market. Toshiba released their first laptop in 1985. Their famous T1100, which was sold in Europe, was one of the first laptops to make use of floppy disks. Based on their success with that model, they quickly expanded their operation and […] Read more » Business & Finance General Interest Recent News Technology News
Blog New Damaging Phishing Attacks Are Targeting Pandemic SBA Loans August 26, 2020 by Vertical Axion The CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) has recently published an advisory, warning of a new phishing campaign that specifically targets business owners who have received pandemic relief in the form of loans from the Small Business Administration. Apparently, according to the advisory, the campaign was launched toward the end of July 2020 by an […] Read more » Business & Finance General Interest Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Companies Spending More On Tech Services Due To Remote Work August 19, 2020 by Vertical Axion The Coupa Business Spend Index (BSI) has been volatile over the past several months as the pandemic shredded business confidence and sent budgets into a downward spiral. Some business spending has barely been touched at all, and has even increased. It’s true that the nature of the spending has changed. Spending on travel has pretty […] Read more » Business & Finance General Interest Recent News Technology Technology News
Blog Meetup Website Has Patched Vulnerability Open To Hackers August 12, 2020 by Vertical Axion Recently, security researchers at Checkmarx discovered a pair of serious vulnerabilities in the popular online meeting website Meetup. According to the researchers, a hacker could combine cross-site scripting (XSS) with cross-site request forgeries (CSRF) to gain admin privileges on the site. This would allow them to do anything from changing the details of any user’s […] Read more » Business & Finance General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog New Data Breach Affected Some Bank Of America Loan Applicants May 30, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you’re like many business owners, you may have recently applied for a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) which was one of the COVID-19 relief funds established by the Federal government in response to the global pandemic. If you applied for that loan through Bank of America, be advised that the company recently […] Read more » Business & Finance Data Breach General Interest Recent News Security
Blog SBA And CDC Phishing Emails Can Carry Malware May 12, 2020 by Vertical Axion According to Microsoft, its machine learning threat detection models have helped its research teams uncover multiple mal-spam campaigns. These campaigns have been tied together by the common theme of incorporating poisoned disk image files used as attachments. Each campaign has been aimed at a different target population, but all use some variant of COVID-19 in […] Read more » Business & Finance Business Advice Phishing Recent News Security
Blog Hackers Targeting WooCommerce Users To Steal Credit Card Information April 22, 2020 by Vertical Axion WooCommerce is a WordPress-based, free plugin that makes it incredibly easy to sell just about anything online. With more than five million installations, it’s clearly a favorite on the web. Unfortunately, its popularity also makes it an easy target. Ben Martin and Willem de Groot are researchers with Sanguine Security. They found a new attack […] Read more » Business & Finance Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security 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 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
