AOL Instant Messenger is dead. Well, not quite yet, but it will be on December 15. AOL and Yahoo have been merged together as Oath in their respective mega-mergers with Verizon. As a product offering AIM had to go.
In the 90’s, AOL made the Internet popular and approachable by the masses. It wasn’t the first public service, but it was everywhere, flooding postal ...
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Three billion (3,000,000,000) is the current tally of breached user IDs, passwords, and customer account information at Yahoo. This is most assuredly all of the user account information they were holding about their customers. If you were or are a Yahoo account holder, just assume your information is among the lost.
Earlier we reported that this breach may have been less significant because ...
Continue Reading →Email account hijacking is a serious, growing problem. It has become the number one way that cyber-criminals make money. What makes it so insidious is the ease with which the hijacker can impersonate the owner of the email account.
What this means to you is this – that email you got from your boss, a close friend, a coworker, a supplier or customer ...
Saw this display at a computer conference. These are all memory modules or different ways to move and store information.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Apple Releases Security Updates
09/25/2017 08:08 PM EDT Original release date: September 25, 2017
Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple security pages for ...
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Happy Friday the 13th. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and this week’s theme is Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everyone’s Business. Often it is the simple things that work the best. Running automatic Windows and Microsoft updates, and applying updates and patches for Adobe, Apple, Android, and other products often are the best way to close the door on a new exploit ...
There is more bad news for WordPress website owners and developers. WordFence has found more instances of popular plug-ins being modified to contain malicious software. The three most recent discoveries are:
WordFence had reported earlier about another ...
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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and this week’s theme is Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everyone’s Business.
Has anyone from your company’s IT department asked you to join the cybersecurity staff? No? Well consider yourself invited.
Cybersecurity has become an critically important part of computer and network operations, but frankly, no company can afford to hire all the information security professionals that it needs. And that is if they can find anyone ...
Continue Reading →We have complained about the total lack of security and uncessary data gathering by smart devices for a while. Why does a light bulb need to know my location? It’s great when these tech-nerd issues show up in the mainstream media. A big thanks to Sherman’s Lagoon.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.09/12/2017 05:26 PM EDT Original release date: September 12, 2017
US-CERT is aware of a collection of Bluetooth vulnerabilities, known as BlueBorne, potentially affecting millions of unpatched mobile phones, computers, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. A remote attacker could exploit several of these vulnerabilities to take ...
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