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 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 Ransomware Targets Company Working On A COVID-19 Vaccine April 20, 2020 by Vertical Axion It’s common knowledge that hackers are highly opportunistic and certainly not above targeting children, the sick and the dying if there’s money to be made. Even so, attacking a drug company currently doing research to find a vaccine for COVID-19 has to be counted as a new low, even for hackers. Sadly, that exact scenario […] Read more » Ransomware Security Technology
Blog Over Half Of All Calls People Receive Are Spam Calls April 18, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you’re like most people, you probably get a lot of calls over the course of a week. They’re probably calls that you’d just rather not get at all. How many of those calls do you get, exactly? Have you ever sat down and taken notes to track it? If you did, you might be […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security
Blog Zoom Is Working On Security But May Be Too Late April 17, 2020 by Vertical Axion The popular messaging tool called Zoom is having a tough time. According to a recently released memo that circulated through Elon Musk’s “SpaceX” company, the company is banning Zoom’s use because of “significant privacy and security concerns.” In response, Zoom’s development team recently announced that they’re freezing all feature development for a period of 90 […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Over 5 Million Marriott Customers Vulnerable In Latest Data Breach April 15, 2020 by Vertical Axion Are you a frequent guest at Marriott hotels? If so, be advised that the company has recently reported a massive data breach that could impact up to 5.2 million guests who have stayed at the hotel. According to the official statement the company released regarding the matter: “At the end of February 2020, we noticed […] Read more » Data Breach General Interest Recent News Security
Blog Huge Increase In Phishing And Malware Attacks Using Coronavirus April 14, 2020 by Vertical Axion Around the world, hundreds of millions of people are terrified of the current pandemic that’s raging. Most of those are currently self-quarantining at home and limiting their social contacts. Everyone is hungry for news and information. Sadly, hackers, scammers and other assorted criminals have wasted no time preying on this massive captive audience. According to […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog iOS Update Includes iPhone And iPad Features And Fixes April 8, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you don’t normally prioritize updating your iPhone and iPad OS, you’re probably going to want to shift gears and grab version 13.4 as soon as possible. The latest versions of both OS variants contain a number of important bug fixes and convenience features that are simply too big and too significant to miss out […] Read more » Apple General Interest iPhone Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Be On The Lookout As Astaroth Malware Makes A Comeback April 6, 2020 by Vertical Axion Are you familiar with Astaroth? If you’re a data security professional, you’ve probably at least heard the name. The group gained some notoriety last year when it came to light that they had developed a means of spreading “fileless malware” using legitimate Windows tools to infect machines around the world. The Windows Defender ATP team […] Read more » Business Advice General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Apple Update Blocks Safari Third Party Cookies By Default April 4, 2020 by Vertical Axion In May of 2019, a Google blog post encouraged all web browsers to adopt the approach of blocking third-party cookies by default. Google announced their own plans to do so, outlining a development strategy that would see Chrome and all Chromium-based browsers defaulting to that by 2022. The TOR browser was the first to make […] Read more » Apple Chrome General Interest Recent News Security
