By now, you should be familiar with that sudden bout of uncertainty as you are gearing up to install a new application. How do you check if an Android app is safe to install? Does it have a virus? What does a malware app even look like? If you have eve…
Continuing the seemingly unending parade of data breaches marching through the headlines over the past year, including the Reddit breach, the Atlas Quantum breach, the Huazhu hotel chain breach, and the Air Canada breach — and those were all just in Au…
Continuing the seemingly unending parade of data breaches marching through the headlines over the past year, including the Reddit breach, the Atlas Quantum breach, the Huazhu hotel chain breach, and the Air Canada breach — and those were all just in Au…
Over the past year, have you done any online shopping at Macy’s, Sears, Kmart, or Adidas? How about any in-store shopping at Lord & Taylor, Forever 21, or Saks Fifth Avenue? Have you eaten at Panera Bread or Whole Foods? Bought electronics at Games…
Over the weekend, cryptocurrency investment platform Atlas Quantum reported it had suffered a data breach that compromises the personal info of 261,000 users. As of yet no funds have been stolen from any accounts. The breached info includes names, phon…
Security flaws haunt Ghostscript
For the third year in a row, researchers have found exploitable flaws in the open source software Ghostscript, a PDF and PostScript interpreter used by hundreds of programs on all major platforms. While the software in…
Google may still be tracking you…
Adding to the growing mistrust consumers have about what tech companies do with the data they collect, we learned this week from an Associated Press investigation that Google still tracks and stores your whereabouts…
Google may still be tracking you…
Adding to the growing mistrust consumers have about what tech companies do with the data they collect, we learned this week from an Associated Press investigation that Google still tracks and stores your whereabouts…
An elaborate and sophisticated criminal operation like something out of an Oceans 11 sequel has just been uncovered, and the caper here is mass malvertising. While investigating exploit kits, security researchers stumbled upon an operation where crimin…
When you consider today’s growing volume of cyberthreats to consumers and businesses, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.