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June 9, 2018 by Vertical Axion
ZDNet Researcher Ryan Stevenson recently found a big problem on T-Mobile’s website regarding an unprotected API. As a result of the flaw, untold millions of T-Mobile’s customers’ account information was left exposed and completely unprotected. Literally anyone who stumbled across the site and tried to abuse it could access a wide range of customer information […]
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June 8, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Microsoft’s stock price is surging, putting the company’s total valuation at $753 billion. This makes it the third most valuable company on the planet, behind Amazon (782 billion), Apple ($923 billion) and leaving Google in fourth place, valued at $739 billion. Google first overtook Microsoft in 2012, and since that time, the two companies have […]
June 7, 2018 by Vertical Axion
If you use Apple products, you may have noticed an annoying “feature”. If you’re using the messaging app on your phone and texting someone and then you move to your Mac and access the same program there, the conversation you were having on your phone isn’t present. The two devices are messaging islands that can’t […]
June 6, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Karanbir Singh (a program manager at Microsoft) is on a mission: Kill the password. As he said in a recent blog post: “Nobody likes passwords. They are inconvenient, insecure, and expensive. In fact, we dislike them so much that we’ve been busy at work trying to create a world without them–a world without passwords.” The […]
June 5, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Coca-Cola is the latest company to fall victim to a data breach. Unlike some of the others that have recently made headlines, however, this one was conducted from within. In September 2017, an employee at one of the company’s subsidiaries stole an external hard drive containing personal data belonging to more than 8,000 company employees. […]
June 4, 2018 by Vertical Axion
If you’ve been considering swapping out some of your old HDDs to SSDs, now is a great time to do so, thanks to the convergence of two factors. First is the fact that the manufacturers of SSDs have been making strides in terms of increasing the capacity of the drives they’re offering. They are doing […]
June 2, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Do you own a Surface Book 4? If you do, you may have been unfortunate enough to get one that suffers from a peculiar screen flickering issue. It’s not known exactly how many Surface Book 4’s have been affected by the issue, but thousands of angry users have been comparing horror stories about it on […]
June 1, 2018 by Vertical Axion
The news just keeps getting worse for Equifax. The company has already had to revise their estimates of how many people were impacted by last year’s breach more than once, and now, they’re having to revise their estimate yet again. This latest revision comes after company officials had to testify before Congress, which has been […]
May 31, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Stop fretting over document backup! Everybody needs an option to backup data safely, but most backup platforms are somewhat complicated to use, especially if you ever have to restore data from a ransomware infection or hard drive failure. While we offer a full array of business and enterprise-grade backup solutions for all kinds of businesses, […]
What types of files are supported? Document backup automatically backs up the following file types: What operating systems are supported? Document backup works on Windows workstations running Windows 7 or later. (Includes all versions of 7, 8, and 10). Macintosh/Apple workstations are not supported at this time. How many backups are saved? Backups are performed […]
Security researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have discovered a dangerous new email vulnerability called “Efail.” Exploiting this new email vulnerability would allow hackers to decrypt emails encrypted with either PGP or S/MIME – including emails that were sent several years earlier. Both of these encryption tools are commonly used by politicians, journalists and […]
May 30, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Big changes are in the works in the SSD-based storage ecosystem. It includes three different vendors all making similar announcements regarding designs to help companies that rely on SSD-based storage systems to reduce duplication and control data creep. It’s not hard to see why they’re scrambling. Although the price of SSD-based storage systems are coming […]
May 29, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Brinker International (the parent company of the Chili’s restaurant chain) formally announced that on May 11, they discovered malware on an undisclosed number of their point of sales terminals. Details are sketchy at this point, because the investigation is still ongoing, but the company had the following to say about the incident: “If you used […]
May 28, 2018 by Vertical Axion
There’s a new security threat to be worried about, and security professionals are warning that it could be very bad indeed. The new malware is known as the “Vega Stealer,” and is currently being used in a relatively simplistic phishing campaign designed to harvest financial data that has been saved in both Google Chrome and […]
May 26, 2018 by Vertical Axion
An identity threat company called 4iQ has recently published a report called “Identities in the Wild: The Tsunami of Breached Identities Continues.” Unfortunately, the information in the report contains all bad news. Some of the details are simply confirmations of things we already knew, and some are shocking statistics that will leave you feeling dismayed. […]
May 25, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Depending on which side of the privacy debate you’re on, you’re either going to love or hate this announcement: “Fitbit intends to use Google’s new Cloud Healthcare API to help the company integrate further into the healthcare system, such as by connecting user data with electronic medical records.” Rarely has a single sentence been so […]
May 24, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Hulu recently announced that it would join both Netflix and Amazon Prime in allowing its users to download content to watch offline, but in Hulu’s case, it comes with a twist. If you subscribe to the $7.99 a month tier, in addition to downloading the content you want to watch, you’ll also be downloading the […]
May 23, 2018 by Vertical Axion
In terms of toys, what could possibly be better than LEGOS? How about LEGOS, combined with Alexa? That’s the latest idea from Amazon, who has paired the unlikely duo in a newly announced service called “LEGO Duplo Stories.” The new service (“skill,” in the parlance of Alexa) will be available on any device that offers […]
May 22, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Before Google released its Chrome browser, Firefox felt pretty good about their arrangement. They got a handsome reward in exchange for making Google.com their default search engine. It was a win-win. These days though, Firefox’s position is a bit more precious. The Google deal is still the main source of the company’s income, but they’re […]
May 21, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Microsoft has been having some “issues” of late. It’s April Windows 10 rollout had to be delayed on account of some mysterious BSOD (“Blue Screen of Death”) issues. This month’s rollout is plagued by similar problems, trading the BSOD issues for problems with both “Hey Cortana” and Google’s Chrome browser. The problem is that when […]
May 19, 2018 by Vertical Axion
At this year’s F8 Developer’s conference, Facebook announced a raft of changes and updates it will be rolling out later this year. Some are fun, others practical, but they’re all interesting. Here are the highlights: Get Ready for “FaceDate” This announcement is interesting. Not so much because the idea of using Facebook to meet someone […]
May 18, 2018 by Vertical Axion
The Department of Health and Human services has issued a warning to healthcare providers to be on high alert for the SamSam strain of ransomware, which has been used to attack eight different health care entities so far this year. SamSam made its first appearance in 2016 and is seeing increasingly widespread use so far […]
May 17, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Twitter shot itself in the foot recently but is working hard to get out in front of the problem. According to a recent blog post, the company experienced an issue with its hashing routine – a process which masks user passwords, making them virtually impossible to crack. Because of the issue, user passwords were stored […]
May 16, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Apple promised that its iTunes app would be available on the Microsoft Store by the end of 2017. The announcement was greeted with enthusiasm, but unfortunately, the company didn’t meet their own deadline. They cited the need for more time to build a more robust user experience for Windows users. The wait is finally over, […]
