Blog Gen Intel Processors May Get Built In Ransomware Protection January 21, 2021 by Vertical Axion At CES 2021, arguably the most influential and significant tech event in the world, Intel made an important announcement regarding its historic eleventh generation of chips. The latest designs will feature hardware-based ransomware detection protocols, which should serve to make those types of attacks less likely to succeed. In 2020, ransomware became the attack vector […] Read more » General Interest New Technology Ransomware Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Firefox To Follow Chrome in Backspace Keyboard Functionality Change January 20, 2021 by Vertical Axion In July 2016, Google Chrome blocked the use of the backspace key to navigate to a previous page in their Chrome 52 release. This was because of reports that it brings about loss of data inputted into a form on a page by switching to a previous page. The data loss often occurs when the […] Read more » Chrome Mozilla Firefox Recent News Technology News
Blog Even Big Companies Like Nissan Get Hacked January 19, 2021 by Vertical Axion Even the largest companies in the world can’t claim immunity to hacking, data breaches and momentary lapses in judgment. Nissan is a classic case in point. Recently, due to a careless oversight, default admin credentials were left in place on part of the company’s network. That allowed an unknown third party to easily breach the […] Read more » Branding Data Breach General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Adobe Flash Is Done And Flash Content Is Being Blocked January 18, 2021 by Vertical Axion Adobe has finally done it, as promised. For more than a year, the company has been slow-walking their iconic Adobe Flash Player to its eventual doom. As of December 31st, 2020, Adobe stopped providing support for the product. Not long after, beginning on January 12th, 2021, it made another change that prevented Flash content from […] Read more » Adobe General Interest Recent News Technology News
Blog New PayPal Phishing Attempts Are After Your Account Info January 15, 2021 by Vertical Axion Hackers and scammers have hit the ground running in 2021, launching an extensive new phishing campaign that targets the legions of PayPal users around the world. The campaign is being run on both text message and email channels and if you’re a PayPal user, you may have already seen it. If you haven’t, in the […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Brand New Ransomware Found On The Internet January 14, 2021 by Vertical Axion Hackers around the world didn’t waste any time. New Year’s celebrations have barely ended, and already, we have our first reports of a new malware strain to help ring in 2021. Dubbed Babuk Locker, the strain is aimed squarely at corporate networks. Based on an analysis of the code, security experts have concluded that the […] Read more » General Interest Ransomware Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Big Changes Coming To Microsoft Outlook In Coming Years January 13, 2021 by Vertical Axion Microsoft has been moving toward a unified “single version” of Outlook that would offer a seamless user experience across all platforms and devices. Unfortunately, thus far, that objective has remained elusive. In late 2020, however, the company announced “Project Monarch” which seeks to create a new email/calendar client that will finally accomplish the company’s long-stated […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Recent News Technology News
Blog Hacker Attacks On Healthcare Industry Are On The Rise January 12, 2021 by Vertical Axion In the early days of the pandemic, several major groups of hackers pledged that their activities would not be aimed at institutions that were engaged in vaccine research. There was at least one high profile instance where the agreement was violated, but for the most part, the hackers kept their word. Research facilities were left […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Adobe Flash Has Reached End of Life Status January 11, 2021 by Vertical Axion Is your company’s website built around Adobe’s aging Flash Player? If so, be aware that you are officially on your own. Flash reached its EOL (End of Life) as of January 1st of this year (2021). From a business perspective, you don’t have to worry that your Flash-dependent website will suddenly stop working, but from […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Weak Passwords Are Making Easy Work For This New Malware January 9, 2021 by Vertical Axion There’s a new worm making the rounds on Windows and Linux-based servers that you should be aware of. This nasty bit of code has been spreading rapidly, using simple brute-force methods to break into public facing-services like Tomcat, MySQL, Jenkins, WebLogic and others. Unfortunately, the prevalence of weak passwords protecting these public-facing systems has made […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
