Blog Suspicious Files Get New Warnings In Google Drive February 12, 2022 by Vertical Axion If you have Google Drive, there’s good news. The company has recently announced that soon they’ll be rolling out a new feature to help alert users to the presence of suspicious documents. Google Drive users will soon start seeing banners alerting them to possible dangers This will serve as an additional layer of defense that […] Read more » General Interest Google Google Apps Security Technology News
Blog High Profile Instagram Accounts Being Held For Ransom By Hackers February 11, 2022 by Vertical Axion Hackers have recently hit upon a new money-making scheme. Some groups have started breaking into Instagram accounts belonging to people with high numbers of followers. They are then holding those accounts hostage until the owner agrees to pay the ransom. In some cases, the hackers are charging as much as $40,000 USD to return an […] Read more » General Interest Instagram Recent News Security Social Networking Technology News
Blog Dark Herring Subscription Scam Affected Millions Of Android Users February 10, 2022 by Vertical Axion Google partner Zimperium zLabs has recently discovered a sophisticated scam targeting more than 100 million Android users. The scam has been in operation right under Google’s nose for nearly two years. The scam has now been shut down by Google but while it was in operation, it spanned some 470 Android apps on the Play […] Read more » Android General Interest Google Security Technology News
Blog E-Mail From Department Of Labor Could Be Phishing Attack February 7, 2022 by Vertical Axion There is a new phishing campaign to keep a watchful eye on according to email security firm INKY. It’s a particularly fiendish one. The attackers have designed an email template that does an admirable job of imitating the look and feel of emails sent from the US Department of Labor. These are being sent out […] Read more » General Interest Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Vulnerability In This Cisco Software Could Allow Hackers Access February 5, 2022 by Vertical Axion Cisco recently discovered a critical security flaw in their Cisco Redundancy Configuration Manager (RCM) for Cisco StarOS. The vulnerability allowed an attacker to execute code arbitrarily and gain root-level access on any device suffering from the vulnerability which is being tracked as CVE-2022-20649. The good news is that Cisco responded with blistering speed and this […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog This Plugin Could Put Your WordPress Site At Risk February 4, 2022 by Vertical Axion The WP HTML Mail plugin has been installed on more than 20,000 websites. If you’ve built a WordPress site for your business and you use that plugin, be aware that you are at risk. A high severity security flaw was recently discovered in the plugin that could allow an attacker to perform a code injection […] Read more » Business Advice Data Breach General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Support Comes To An End For iOS 14 For iPhone Devices February 3, 2022 by Vertical Axion When Apple first released iOS 15 they posted a promise on their website. That promise was: “If you’re using iOS or iPadOS 14.5 or later, you might now see the option to choose between two software update versions. This option allows you to choose between updating to the latest version of iOS or iPadOS 15 […] Read more » Apple General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Top 10 Brands That Phishing Attackers Use To Scam Users February 2, 2022 by Vertical Axion Scammers delight in impersonating government agencies and well-known brands to lure email recipients into giving up their personal information. That information is then either exploited directly or sold to the highest bidder on the Dark Web. Have you ever wondered which agencies, companies or brands are the most imitated by these attackers? Whether you have […] Read more » Data Breach General Interest Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Report Says PC Sales Went Up Ten Percent In 2021 January 29, 2022 by Vertical Axion According to the latest Gartner’s statistics, a total of 339.8 million personal computers were shipped in 2021. That was up from 309.1 million in 2020 which amounts to about 10 percent growth in the market. The company noted that the fourth quarter of 2021 saw a 5 percent drop compared to last year, which may […] Read more » Apple General Interest Google Microsoft Recent News Technology News
Blog Ransomware Attack Wreaks Havoc On Prison Employees And Inmates January 28, 2022 by Vertical Axion Chalk up another first for the hackers. For the first time that we know of, a successful hacking attack caused prisoners in New Mexico to be confined to their cells for a time. The Metropolitan Detention Center in Bernalillo County, New Mexico went into lockdown on January 5th of this year (2022) when hackers infiltrated […] Read more » General Interest Ransomware Recent News Security Technology News
