Do you have an Instagram account?
If so, be advised that David Stier (a business consultant and researcher for CNET) has recently discovered a flaw in Instagram's website that exposed thousands of users' email addresses and phone numbers for a period of more than a month.
Even companies that are normally quite good at providing security for their users occasionally wind up with egg on their faces. Google is a classic case in point, in this instance. Recently, the company announced that a bug in an older segment of their GSuite code base resulted in the recent discovery that the company had been storing customer passwords in an encrypted but un-hashed form for more than a decade.
If your business website incorporates an e-Commerce platform that allows you to sell directly to your customers, be aware. According to the latest research by the security firm RiskIQ, there are currently more than half a dozen large, well-organized hacking groups targeting businesses just like yours.
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have been tracking a disturbing new trend.
In the first quarter of 2019, the company has noted a massive 58 percent increase in modifications of various banking Trojan families that have been used in attacks against more than a quarter of a million users around the world.
Microsoft continues to struggle where releasing smooth Windows 10 updates are concerned.
This latest OS update doesn't contain file deleting problems, and it won't give you the dreaded Blue Screen of Death.
It it may however cause confusion, as some users are reporting that the update file is downloading twice.
Intel has been in the news several times over the last 18 months due to serious security flaws that have been found in their chipsets, beginning with the dreaded Spectre and Meltdown flaws. Now with MDS attacks, they're not the only ones. Recently, researchers have discovered serious flaws in Cisco products that would allow a determined hacker the ability to attack a wide range of devices.
Users of Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 7 and Server 2008 got an unexpected benefit from Microsoft recently.
All of the OS's mentioned above have reached the end of their support lives and the company hasn't been issuing new security updates for them.
Remember the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities discovered early last year? Well, hold onto your hat, because they've got company.
Recently, researchers discovered a new class of side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel processors that impact every modern chipset the company makes, including those used in Apple devices.
If you're among the masses of people using WhatsApp, for either Android or iOS, be advised that the Israeli hacking consortium known as the NSO Group may have installed spyware on the device you use WhatsApp on.
A massive security flaw identified as CVE-2019-3568 has been discovered and weaponized by the NSO Group.
Adobe is facing harsh criticism after they began sending letters out to portions of their user base. The letters inform users of Creative Cloud that older versions of the products they're using have been discontinued and licenses to use those products have been revoked.
