3 Holiday PR Stories That Will Make You Smile
If you’re looking for reasons to be entirely fearful and jaded about one of a myriad of troubling world conditions today, you’ll find them within seconds of logging on, dialing in, or listening to personal accounts and news sources. But dig a little deeper and you’ll discover that there may yet still be hope expressed in the form of kindness and basic goodwill extended by others. Leading up to Christmas Day, I stumbled upon 3...
‘Spy Banker’ Attacks Facebook, Google Cloud Users
A Trojan threat which has existed since 2009 has resurfaced recently attacking users of Facebook and Google Cloud services, using social engineering, to encourage them to install the Spy Banker script. According to Zscaler, who have been monitoring the Trojan in the wild, the attackers are offering users coupons and free downloads of popular software to entice them to run the offending script on their devices. They went on to list...
Is Dropbox Becoming A Risky Prospect For Consumers?: Kills E-mail App Mailbox
The biggest problem, despite the enormous advantages, with the cloud as a solution for businesses and consumers was always the possibility that services would simply go out of business or adjust their strategy in ways that left users disadvantaged. Part of that problem came true this week as Dropbox announced that their e-mail app, Mailbox, was to be shuttered. Inc reported that this was in stark contrast to their original promise,...
Flash Finally Set To Die: Adobe Recommends Developers Switch To Alternatives
Business owners with Flash on their sites have long been crippled by Apple’s decision to make the technology incompatible with all of their iOS devices (iPhones and iPads). This meant that surfers on those devices received a suboptimal at best, or completely unusable experience when visiting those sites. With Adobe now telling developers to stop using Flash completely, as reported by The Verge and start switching to alternatives...
Is Your New Credit Card Chip as Secure as You Think?
In a growing trend, more and more credit card manufacture are including new EMV chips in their plastic to help stop fraud during in-store purchases. In theory, the EMV chip in your new credit card uses a dynamically generated data code for each purchase, meaning that an attacker can’t simply use the same code over and over for future purchases. Unfortunately, while security is now improving for in-store purchases a recent study by ACI...
Ransom Demands Rock Email Providers Zoho, ProtonMail Hushmail, FastMail And More
The International Business Times reported this week that a series of email service providers had experienced outages and random demands on the back of a concerted DDoS attack by a group called Armada Collective. It is reported that the attacks follow on from a series of attacks on a wide range of institutions, including some Thai banks. Hushmail is reported to have paid a ransom demand of 20 bitcoin (about $6,000) but the attacks were...
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