Last week it was revealed that VoIP communications company 3CX was compromised and was distributing a malicious version of their desktop software to hundreds of thousands of paying customers. This is not an attack where users go to find sketchy websites and download “free” software that should be paid for. Rather, this is licensed software […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter to Open-Source Recommendation Algorithm Not related to the announcement that some of their code was stolen last year and posted on GitHub, Twitter says they plan to publish their recommendation algorithm, which they say, no one left at the company understands. They say this will likely be embarrassing, but good for users. They also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you have not notice, email security firm Cofense scanned emails from 35 million of its customers. Luckily, they used machine learning to do the analysis. Cofense’s report has these major conclusions: The numbers are a bit mind boggling. Among the statistics – A third of the phishing emails have a finance theme. This […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I previously wrote about one of several recent attacks on LastPass. Now we are learning more about how it happened and this should be a warning to companies that allow BYOD or bring your own device. Note this is not a Windows or Mac issue; nor is a computer vs. phone issue. In fact, all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T lost control of data of nine million customers. T-Mobile lost data belonging to tens of almost a hundred million customers. Other carriers have too. All mobile providers collect a lot of data. Data for billing, data for profiling, data for selling ads. All kinds of data. Location data. They know every cell site that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Domain Name Service (DNS) is the part of the Internet that maps web site names that you use to IP addresses that the Internet uses. DNS servers see a lot of those names and numbers. Billions of them a day, in fact. Akamai, in addition to being one of the largest content delivery services […]
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