In case you still think that clicking on any of those shortened web page links (like http://bit.ly/4wx345) is a good idea, here comes the best reason ever NOT to click on those links. It appears that the Hillary Clinton email leak may have been caused by clicking on one of those stupid shortened URLs. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]OK, that subject, while true, was really just to catch your attention. Here is the rest of the story (and sorry, this is a bit of a rant). Google has a team that researches security vulnerabilities in all kinds of software. The team, founded in 2014, is called Project Zero. While I am sure it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You would think after all the stories about data breaches that companies would not be asking you for your personal information via email. As long as people will do it, companies will ask. After all, it is easy and when easy fights with secure, easy almost always wins. In the source article for this post […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, not exactly, but close. And it was not due to pictures of Kim Kardashian. Here is what happened. When you type in the name of a website to visit, say Facebook.com, the Internet needs to translate that name into an address. That address might look like 157.240.2.35 . The software that translates those names […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Buzzfeed, nine days after Hillary Clinton had won big on Super Tuesday, the Russians launched their cyber attack on her campaign. The Russians sent malicious emails to all of her senior campaign staff. The emails looked like standard Google GMail emails alerting to suspicious activity on their accounts and asked them to click […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You’ve probably heard about credit card skimmers that hackers attach to everything from gas pumps to ATMs to self checkout terminals at grocery stores, all in an effort to steal your credit card info. As more stores go to chip based credit cards where stealing the information off the stripe won’t let hackers use that […]
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