Everyone is familiar with all of that unwanted software that manufacturers are paid to install on laptops that they sell. For many people, when they get a new computer, they spend the first many hours installing patches and deleting all of those unwanted applications, which many people lovingly call crapware. Researchers have confirmed that in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Talk to Google or Facebook and they will tell you that they never met a piece of information that they did not want to add to their databases. More information means better profiles; better profiles mean that they can charge more for ads. But some Silicon Valley firms are rethinking that idea. Silicon Valley startup […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Do you use 7-Zip? Do you even know what it is? One of the challenges that businesses and consumers have is that, like sausage, they often do not know what is in the software that they use. As a result, they could be diligent about applying patches and still be exposed to hackers. In this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What happens when criminals make off with $2 million in cyber currency? That is a good question. The Bitcoin exchange Gatecoin, based in Hong Kong, detected the breach on May 13th. If you put your money in the bank, those deposits are protected by Federal law in the case of fraudulent transactions and protected by […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Back in 2012, LinkedIn told its users that it had been hacked – to the tune of 6.5 million users. Well, it turns out, that was a tad bit shy of the truth. It turns out that the real number was 117 million email and password combinations. – roughly 18 times the number that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Nulled.io, a forum that sells compromised passwords, stolen bitcoins and other neat stuff was hacked recently, exposing email addresses of people buying and selling, purchase histories and messages between buyers and sellers for 500,000 members. Here is what the website looks like today: If you look at their “tag line” below their logo, it says […]
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