Are you still using Internet Explorer?  Now you have a new reason to consider switching to a more up to date browser.

As most people know, Microsoft essentially gave up on Explorer after it failed to gain ground against its major competitors in the browser ecosystem.

According to Alexa, Amazon is the 4th most visited website in the United States and ranks 8th worldwide.  To say that it gets a lot of traffic every day would be an understatement, which is why a newly discovered phishing campaign pretending to come from Amazon is so disturbing.

Google is taking additional steps to protect its Chromebook user base.  Currently, if a hacker has physical access to your machine, he or she could insert a flash drive in the USB port and run malicious code from it.

The company is adding a new feature called USBGuard, which blocks USB port access any time the machine's screen is locked.

Chromebooks are fun, cool machines that are incredibly popular with students, hipsters, artists, and the like. However, the company hasn't been able to penetrate the Enterprise market with their product.  It's not hard to understand why.

Overwhelmingly, businesses use Windows-based machines.

This spring, Windows 10 users will be treated to a raft of exciting new features.

Currently, the company's massive test group of Windows Insiders is enjoying playing with them, but they'll be available to everyone in the early part of next year.

2018 hasn't been a great year for social media, with all the major platforms suffering a number of significant data breaches at various points in the year.  Twitter alone has seen several, including the biggest one in May when the company urged all of its 330 million users to reset their passwords.

According to data collected by Truecaller, the number of robocalls worldwide increased by a staggering 300 percent in 2018, although they were down slightly in the U.S.  This data, however, should be taken with a grain of salt for two reasons.

First and foremost, Truecaller did not research to collect the data.

Microsoft recently announced an addition to Windows 10 that should make the lives of Enterprise and power users a whole lot easier.

Running an unknown, untrusted .exe file on your machine can be an event that fills you with dread.

The best case, of course, is that everything turns out fine.

Recently Facebook fessed up to a bug in their photo API that exposed the photos belonging to nearly seven million of the company's users to app developers.

The way the photo API is supposed to work is as follows:  When you give an app permission to access your Facebook photos, that app is only supposed to gain access to the ones you've posted on your timeline.

There's a new, widespread phishing campaign underway that you need to be aware of if you use the Apple App store at all.  At this time, no one knows who's behind the campaign, but already, a surprising number of people have been taken in by it.

The campaign works like this:

You'll receive an email that appears to be from Apple confirming your recent purchase of a $30 app.