Blog Home Chef Company Data Breach Affected 8 Million Customers May 28, 2020 by Vertical Axion Are you a Home Chef customer? If so, be advised that the company recently announced a data breach. It was discovered after the hackers who broke in sold more than 8 million user records on the Dark Web. The group, calling themselves “The Shiny Hunters” has been busy of late. They’ve been selling databases containing […] Read more » Data Breach General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Update WordPress Pagebuilder Plugin To Avoid Potential Hack May 25, 2020 by Vertical Axion Do you use SiteOrigin’s Pagebuilder plugin for WordPress? If so, you’ve got plenty of company. The intuitive, widget-based plugin has been installed more than a million times and is used by webmasters all over the world to create responsive grid pages for websites. Unfortunately, a pair of security flaws in the plugin’s code recently came […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Preview Now Available For Microsoft’s New Family Safety App May 22, 2020 by Vertical Axion Family safety features have been a part of the Windows 10 experience since its release, and those tools were made available on the Xbox in tandem with the release of Windows 10. You may, in fact, already be using them on your home computer and your Xbox. Unfortunately, similar protections were simply unavailable from Microsoft […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Recent News Security
Blog Hackers Are Demanding Extra Ransomware Payments From Victims May 21, 2020 by Vertical Axion Hackers who use ransomware to conduct their attacks have a new trick up their sleeves. A ransomware family has begun employing the tactic of not only demanding payment to unlock infected systems, but also demanding an additional payment. They’re demanding an extra payment to keep them from publishing copies of the files they stole before […] Read more » Data Breach General Interest Ransomware Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Google Added A Video Conferencing Tool For Users May 20, 2020 by Vertical Axion Google Meet is a video conferencing tool the company originally designed for Enterprise users. There are serious security issues with some of the more popular free or low-cost options available for the masses. So, Google made the decision to make Meet free to anyone with an email address. The rollout took two weeks to complete, […] Read more » Google Google Apps New Technology Recent News Security Social Networking Technology News
Blog Xiaomi Phones Track Your Data When Using Their Browser May 18, 2020 by Vertical Axion Do you have a Chinese-made Xiaomi phone? If so, you should be aware that there is a security issue. According to research conducted by Forbes, the Mi Browser that comes built into the phone sends your internet searches to Xiaomi servers located in both Russia and Singapore. Worse, it sends search data associated with incognito […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Emails Saying Your Antivirus Is Expired Are Likely A Scam May 16, 2020 by Vertical Axion A great many companies selling antivirus software have affiliate programs that help them expand their reach. Each time an affiliate sells a copy of the software, they get a cut. It’s a good business model used in a wide range of industries, and antivirus software companies have strict rules governing how their affiliates can market. […] Read more » General Interest Gmail Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Update NinjaForms In WordPress To Avoid Potential Hack May 15, 2020 by Vertical Axion Are you one of the million-plus website owners making use of Ninja Forms for WordPress? If so, be aware that the company has recently patched a serious security flaw that allowed hackers to inject malicious code and take over websites. The attack is accomplished via a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) that leads to a Stored […] Read more » Business Advice General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Security Technology News
Blog Microsoft Edge Update Will Benefit Security And Remote Workers May 13, 2020 by Vertical Axion Microsoft is working hard to improve its Edge browser, and the latest beta build (Dev version 84.0.495.2) has a lot to be excited about. Most of the benefits are aimed at security and remote employees. There are three new updates, and they involve a security improvement, ease with profile switching, and a few miscellaneous improvements. […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft New Technology 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
