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Scammers Are Using Direct Deposit Requests To Steal Money
Last year, the FBI issued a warning regarding BEC (Business Email Compromise) scams. Unfortunately, security professionals report that those types of scams are increasing in frequency, and worse, the most recent ones ...
Microsoft May Be Replacing Their Edge Browser
Three years ago, Microsoft decided to retire their beleaguered Internet Explorer browser. It was a disaster, riddled with critical security flaws and technologically far behind Chrome and Firefox. The company vowed to ...
Should I Shutdown My Computer Every Night?
Are you like me, where this question is routinely hanging out in the back of your mind every time you’re jumping on or off your computer? I finally broke down and ...
Microsoft Fixes October Windows 10 Update
As you probably heard, Microsoft's October update of Windows 10 was a bit of a disaster. Sure, it updated your OS, but unfortunately for many users, it also deleted a variety of ...
Well-Known Tech Support Scam Traced to India
I think we’ve all seen those virus alerts to some degree or another that pop-up on our desktops telling us that we’ve been infected. They’ll typically pretend to be from legitimate ...
Passwords: Not as Secure as You Might Think
We’ve all heard that in order to protect our information and online accounts we need to create complex passwords with uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters, right? Following such ...
Microsoft Is Changing How Searches Will Work
Change is coming to the way Microsoft handles search across its ecosystem. If you use the home edition of Office, you're not likely to notice, but if you use Office 365, the ...
Data Breach Notifications May Get Standardized
A new piece of legislation is making its way through the halls of Congress that could standardize and streamline the data security and breach notification process for financial institutions. This is something ...
Vulnerability Found In Major Manufacturers Of Android Phones
Researchers operating out of the University of Florida, Stony Brook University and Samsung Research America have made a disturbing discovery. Millions of Android smartphones manufactured by eleven different OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) ...
New Scam Targets Apple Users
There's a new, surprisingly elaborate phishing scam targeting iPhone users. The scam starts with an email informing users that their phones have been locked due to "illegal activity" and instructing them to ...
