Password Checkup data shows some users still reuse their exposed passwords. Newly published research from Google surrounding its Password Checkup extension for Chrome found that 1.5%, or 310,000, of 21 million usernames and passwords were stolen or exposed credentials. Google took a sampling of some 670,000 users and their logins from the early adopters of the […]
The finance department of every organization in the world — commercial, non-profit, government — must have business rules for dealing with partners who ask for changes in bank deposit or transfer procedures. That’s the lesson from several years of organizations being victimized by what is formally known as business email compromise fraud, where a criminal […]
Does true Artificial Intelligence even exist yet? Will it ever exist or will it end the world before we reach its full capacity? The hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently a media frenzy and if we aren’t careful, we will ruin the name before it has had a chance to really prove itself due […]
But incidents involving SSNs, addresses, birth dates were smaller than in previous years. If data breach reports evoke a sense of déjà vu these days, it’s only because breaches have almost unfailingly kept increasing in number and becoming bigger in scope quarter after quarter, year in and year out. However, the raw numbers do not […]
Regardless of how chaotic your work life is, I’d wager that your monitor always remains pristine and unobstructed amidst a cluttered desk. With that said, many desktop monitors have large stands that carve out a chunk of table surface. Wouldn’t it be great to use that area to store an extra book or two? The […]
A new banking trojan has emerged and is going after users’ Android devices. Dubbed Cerberus, this remote access trojan allows a distant attacker to take over an infected Android device, giving the attacker the ability to conduct overlay attacks, gain SMS control, and harvest the victim’s contact list. What’s more, the author of the Cerberus […]
Unlike BlueKeep, however, these vulnerabilities affect more recent Windows versions, including Windows 10 Microsoft issued fixes for four critical vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Services (RDS) this week, likening two of them to ‘BlueKeep’, another critical flaw in the same Windows component. All four Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaws – tracked as CVE‑2019‑1181, CVE‑2019‑1182, CVE‑2019‑1222 and […]
5G has been nearly a decade in the making but has really dominated the mobile conversation in the last year or so. This isn’t surprising considering the potential benefits this new type of network will provide to organizations and users alike. However, just like with any new technological advancement, there are a lot of questions […]
We use copy/paste almost every day through many of the applications we use. I even use Win+V a lot more since Windows 10 introduced the new clipboard history feature. But how do we deal with the same thing in a PowerShell environment, such as send a result straight to the clipboard? While the clip trick […]
Criminals are using the tools intended to protect consumers to attack them through techniques that are becoming more successful with each passing month. Phishing — especially phishing involving websites claiming to be from financial institutions — is growing, and criminals are getting better at their craft. A new report shows how attackers are using messages […]