Blog Office 365 Exchange Users Get Disposable Email Feature November 10, 2020 by Vertical Axion During the 2019 Microsoft Ignite convention, the company announced a new feature they were planning to add to Exchange Online. The new feature, dubbed “plus addressing” would give Office 365 Exchange users the ability to create a potentially unlimited number of disposable email addresses using a + delimiter. That’s handy, given that so many sites […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Office 365 Recent News Technology News
Blog For Security, Windows 10 Update Removes Adobe Flash Player November 9, 2020 by Vertical Axion In September of this year, Microsoft announced that they would soon be releasing an optional update designed to remove the Adobe Flash Player from any machine applying the update, and rendering it impossible for Flash to be reinstalled on that device. It’s easy to understand how and why the company reached the decision to do […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Recent News Security Technology News Windows
Blog Notification To Update Microsoft Word Could Be Hidden Malware November 7, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you’ve spent any time at all surveying the threat landscape, then you’re almost certainly familiar with the name Emotet. As one of the largest malware botnets on the planet, it’s dangerous and then some, and its tentacles extend to every corner of the globe. There’s nowhere on earth you can go that Emotet can’t […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Microsoft Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Government Warns Increase In Cyber Attacks Targeting Hospitals November 6, 2020 by Vertical Axion Is your business in any way affiliated with or connected to the healthcare industry? If so, be advised that recently, the FBI and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a statement in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services warning of an “Increased and Imminent Cybercrime Threat.” According to […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Amazon Employee Responsible For User Data Breach November 5, 2020 by Vertical Axion Recently, one or more Amazon employees disclosed customer email addresses to an unknown third party, prompting Amazon to send a notification email out to impacted customers which reads as follows: “We are writing to let you know that your e-mail address was disclosed by an Amazon employee to a third-party in violation of our policies. […] Read more » Amazon Data Breach General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog This New Ransomware Can Infect A Network In Just Minutes November 3, 2020 by Vertical Axion Not all ransomware strains are created equally. Some are designed as slow burns that will infect a target system, expanding its reach for days, or even weeks before striking and locking your business critical files. Others are designed to hit fast and hard. Lockbit definitely falls into this latter category, based on a detailed analysis […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Photoshop Testing Security For Images To Prevent Theft And Fakes October 31, 2020 by Vertical Axion Deep Fakes are becoming an increasingly large problem. If you’re not familiar with the term, a Deep Fake is an advanced photo or video technique in which an existing person in a video is digitally overwritten by some other person. Want to make it look like a wholesome actress has a porn video on the […] Read more » Adobe General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog WordPress Loginizer Plugin Was Automatically Updated Due To Vulnerability October 30, 2020 by Vertical Axion WordPress tends to take a light-handed approach when it comes to managing the legions of plugins that are compatible with the most popular blogging platform on the planet. This time, however, they’re taking a different approach. They’re forcing a security update to counter a dangerous bug in a wildly popular plugin that’s being used by […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Coordinated Effort Underway To Take Down Trickbot Malware October 29, 2020 by Vertical Axion Score one for the good guys. A team led by Microsoft’s DCU (Digital Crimes Unit) that includes Symantec, NTT Ltd, ESET, and Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs is working on something new. They have launched a sustained, coordinated attack on Trickbot’s infrastructure in a bid to destroy it, preventing the hackers who control it from making […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Adobe Patches A Number of Critical Vulnerabilities In Latest Update October 28, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you make frequent use of Adobe products, then you’ll definitely want to give priority to applying the latest security update offered by the company. It’s an out of band patch that impacts ten different products in the Adobe lineup and is aimed squarely at addressing a number of critical security flaws. Since this is […] Read more » Adobe General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
