Blog Google Is Adding Verification Policy For Online Ads May 5, 2020 by Vertical Axion Recently, Google announced they were making some important changes to their rules governing online ads. They’re adding verifications that they normally reserve for political advertisements,. This step is in a bid to combat what many industry experts are calling an ‘Infodemic’ of bad information, fake cures, and false hopes arising from the chaos surrounding the […] Read more » General Interest Google Recent News Technology News
Blog Microsoft Stopped Hackers Using GIFs To Access User Data May 4, 2020 by Vertical Axion Microsoft Teams (which is the company’s Enterprise chat app) isn’t all business. Like most other chat apps, it allows those who use it to send amusing animated Gif images. Unfortunately, that proved to be problematic. Recently, researchers from CyberArk discovered a serious security issue with Teams that allowed hackers to exploit the Gif function to […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Another Text Bug Could Crash Your iPhone May 2, 2020 by Vertical Axion The more things change, the more they stay the same. When Apple released iOS 11 a few years back, the company had a serious issue revolving around text messages and foreign language character sets. In that earlier case, the problem revolved around a certain string of Sindhi characters that had the result of locking the […] Read more » iPhone Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Some Smart WiFi Linksys Routers May Need A Password Reset April 30, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you have a home network, odds are good that you use a Linksys router. In fact, it’s a brand that a great many small and medium sized businesses rely on as well. With that in mind, be advised that recently, the company locked user accounts on its Smart WiFi cloud service. The company is […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Agent Tesla Malware Steals WiFi Passwords From Infected Users April 29, 2020 by Vertical Axion A few new variants of the Agent Tesla info-stealer malware have been spotted in the wild and should be on your radar if they’re not already. The new variants are more dangerous than previous versions of the malware. They now sport a module that enables them to scrape WiFi passwords from devices they invest. That […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Gmail Blocks Millions Of COVID-19 Phishing Emails Daily April 28, 2020 by Vertical Axion Google’s popular Gmail service has been busy. In a typical day, the company’s email system blocks more than a hundred million phishing emails. During the last week alone, the company reports that their system saw a massive spike in phishing emails related to COVID-19, with more than 18 million such messages being blocked in just […] Read more » Gmail Google Phishing Recent News Security
Blog Hackers Stopped With Help of Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit April 27, 2020 by Vertical Axion Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) recently played an instrumental role in taking down a botnet made up of more than 400,000 devices. A botnet is a tool that hackers use to invade systems. The botnets were rented out to a variety of groups to conduct DDoS attacks, launch phishing campaigns, and deliver a variety of […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News Uncategorized
Blog Apple Announced A New Low-Priced iPhone April 25, 2020 by Vertical Axion Rumors have been swirling for months about Apple and the possibility that they’ll release a successor to their iPhone SE. Recently, the company put a pin in all the speculation and unveiled their second-generation iPhone SE. It looks like an iPhone 8, but lacks the upgraded internals. The best part? When the company starts taking […] Read more » Apple Branding General Interest iPhone Recent News
Blog Beware Of Phishing Emails Appearing As From The Federal Government April 24, 2020 by Vertical Axion The Digital Security firm Inky reports that they’ve discovered a new, disturbing phishing campaign you should be aware of. The company has spotted a disturbing number of scam emails purporting to be from Mike Pence, the Vice President of the United States. The emails bear titles like “Coronavirus Guidelines for America.” It’s bad enough that […] Read more » Law Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog New Windows 10 Disk Cleanup Feature Coming Soon April 23, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you’re a veteran Windows user, you’ve almost certainly made frequent use of the “Disk Cleanup” feature, which has been a standard part of the OS for what feels like forever. Recently though, Microsoft has given the utility a bit of a facelift and an upgrade. Lurking under the hood of Windows 10, in the […] Read more » Microsoft New Technology Recent News Windows
