Are you or were you a MySpace user? If so, we have bad news.
The struggling company recently announced that when they attempted to migrate all user data to new servers, something in the process went wrong.
As a result, massive amounts of user data was lost.
Are you a Facebook user? If you are, it may be time to change your password. KrebsOnSecurity recently reported that it found hundreds of millions of Facebook user account names and passwords stored in plain text and searchable by more than twenty-thousand Facebook employees.
If you've purchased bedding from either MyPillow or Amerisleep, your data may have been compromised. These companies are two popular mattress and bedding merchants operating in the US. This is according to a recent report coming to us from RiskIQ. The hacking group Magecart appears to be behind both breaches, which is bad news for both companies and their customers.
A small but significant update is coming in the next version of Windows 10, which should have the company's massive user base breathing a sigh of relief.
The company is experimenting with a new feature that it can use to trigger automatic uninstalls of buggy updates.
If you're still clinging to your old Windows 7 machine, you should know that the day is relentlessly drawing closer when Microsoft is going to stop supporting the OS altogether. In fact, in the near future, you're going to start seeing reminders pushed out by the company that the end is drawing near.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) has recently issued a statement concerning HP's recall of more than 78,000 laptop batteries. This is being issued in addition to the 50,000 laptop batteries the company recalled in January 2018 for the same issue.
Have you heard of DMSniff? If you're in the restaurant, entertainment, or retail business and you haven't heard of it, this article is likely to dismay you. It's the latest threat being deployed against those industries.
Researchers from the cybersecurity company Flashpoint now believe that DNSniff malware has been lurking in the wild since at least 2016.
It has proved to be notoriously hard to detect, which explains why we're just now hearing about it.
The latest version of the Android OS is now available in beta form. The catch is, you've got to own a Google Pixel phone to use it at this point. The rest of Google's massive user base will get to see Android Q later this year. In an unusual move, the company limited access to their latest work in progress to Pixel owners, including those still using the Pixel 1 (which is technically no longer supported by the company).
The latest version of the OS introduces a variety of advancements.
How many malicious apps would you need on the Google Play Store to infect more than one hundred and fifty million Android devices? Unfortunately, we have a good answer to that question, courtesy of SimBad adware, which can be found in 210 different Android apps.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a public service announcement regarding the growing number of Social Security related scams they've been getting reports about.
In 2017, just 3,200 people called to report instances of SSA Voice Phishing (called 'vishing'), with total 2017 losses amounting to some $210,000.
In 2018, that number swelled to more than 63,000 with losses in excess of $16.6 million.
