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November 15, 2018 by Vertical Axion
The Radisson Hotel Group joins the ranks of globally-recognized brands to be on the receiving end of a successful hack. According to the company, a small percentage of their loyalty club members had some of their personal information accessed by an unauthorized and as yet unknown third party. The company reports that no credit or […]
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November 14, 2018 by Vertical Axion
A research team has found an exploit that allows hackers to decrypt and view encrypted files on a number of well-known SSD drives. They include: Samsung T5 Portable Samsung T3 Portable Samsung 850 EVO Samsung 840 EVO Crucial MX 300 Crucial MX 200 Crucial MX 100 According to the research team: “We […]
November 13, 2018 by Vertical Axion
In recent months, hackers around the world have been finding new ways to invade people’s privacy, hijacking an increasing number of cameras and microphones attached to smartphones and PCs. Apple is responding to the evolving threat by introducing a new layer of physical security to their latest MacBooks. The company has created a custom security […]
November 12, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Intel just can’t seem to catch a break. By now, almost everyone has heard about the dreaded Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities which have been plaguing the chip maker since they were first discovered. Now, it seems there’s a new chip-based threat. This latest threat has been dubbed PortSmash by the research team from the Tampere […]
November 10, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Researchers have discovered a security flaw in MS Office 2016 and older versions that leave the door open to hackers who can take advantage of it to run malicious code on a target computer. This latest hack exploits a flaw in the software’s online video option, which allows users to embed a YouTube video via […]
November 9, 2018 by Vertical Axion
If you own Apple devices that use iOS, watchOS, tvOS, or macOS, there’s good news. The company just released major updates for all of those. They’re available right now, and here are a few of the highlights: For iOS 12.1, the big changes are as follows: Group Face Time, with support for audio and video […]
November 7, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Yahoo has the dubious honor of having been on the receiving end of the largest data breach in history. As a consequence, the company has recently agreed to pay $50 million in damages and provide free credit monitoring services to its impacted users. The company actually suffered a pair of breaches in 2013 and in […]
November 3, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Security in the Android ecosystem is awful. There’s just no other word to describe it. In large part, the blame for that can be placed at the feet of Google. Although they have succeeded in creating a wildly successful platform, their management of OEM devices (in particular, security updates for them) have been virtually nonexistent. […]
November 2, 2018 by Vertical Axion
As far as hackers are concerned, no target is safe. Not even the Girl Scouts. Recently, one of the Girl Scouts’ official email accounts was accessed by an “unauthorized third party” and as a result, as many as 2,800 girl scouts in Orange County, California may have had their personal information compromised. Gaining access to […]
November 1, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Do you use Tumblr? If so, be aware that your personal information may have been exposed. Tumblr recently added a feature called “Recommended Blogs” that presents you with a list of blogs you might enjoy based on your past viewing habits. It’s a great idea in theory, but unfortunately, there were problems with the way […]
October 31, 2018 by Vertical Axion
McAfee has long been a popular target of scammers, but recently, they’ve changed the nature of their game. In years past, they’d display a webpage informing you that any McAfee products on your computer are out of date and provide a link to the company’s virtual storefront where you could renew. Unbeknownst to the people […]
October 30, 2018 by Vertical Axion
If you take a lot of photos with your Android device, you’re probably constantly on the lookout for a better way to organize them and access them. That’s exactly what the authors of the malicious app called “The Album, by Google Photos” are hoping for. The app put in a brief appearance on the Microsoft […]
October 29, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Anthem is one of the largest insurance providers in the United States. Unfortunately in 2015, they had the dubious honor of suffering the largest health data breach in history. It left protected health information of nearly 79 million of their customers exposed. As a result, a division of the US Department of Health and Human […]
October 26, 2018 by Vertical Axion
You probably haven’t heard of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Systems. They’re a low-profile division of the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for administering the Affordable Care Act. Recently, the company announced that they detected anomalous activity in the systems related to the healthcare.gov website that brokers and insurance agents use to […]
October 24, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Google is taking additional steps to bolster user privacy and better secure the data of the company’s legions of Android device owners. The company recently announced a change to the Android Backup Service that will encrypt all user backup data stored on its cloud servers, such that even Google itself can’t read it. Google has […]
October 23, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Gamers take the games they play seriously. So seriously, in fact, that they’re not above resorting to dirty tricks to score a win. Recently, social media has been abuzz with reports of a messaging app bug on Sony’s PlayStation devices. Specifically, there’s a bug in both the Android and iOS messaging apps that allow malicious […]
October 22, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Gaming and Gambling are huge industries with a truly global footprint. It’s no surprise then, that these industries have become an increasingly popular target for hackers. Interestingly, according to the latest report issued by ThreatMatrix, the attack vector of choice when it comes to these industries is IP Spoofing. It has increased by a staggering […]
October 19, 2018 by Vertical Axion
As many as 30,000 people made up of a mix of both civilian and military personnel have had their personal and financial information exposed. This exposure is what has been reported as a major security breach of the Pentagon. This is proof positive that no organization is safe from watchful hackers scattered all around the […]
October 16, 2018 by Vertical Axion
By now, almost everyone has heard of the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws that have been making headlines for more than a year. They’re serious flaws with dire implications for tens of millions of users around the world who have an intel-based PC. The saga surrounding the fixes for these issues has been a long […]
October 15, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Facebook got hit hard by a currently unknown group of hackers. If you recently found yourself inexplicably logged out of the social media site, Facebook did it in response to the breach. The breach resulted in the theft of data pertaining to more than fifty million of the site’s users. Here’s what we know […]
October 12, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Jose Rodriguez, a Spanish Apple enthusiast, has discovered a new security flaw to be aware of. He posted a Proof of Concept video showing the exploit in action. We’ll say upfront that this is a highly convoluted attack involving more than two dozen discrete steps. A hacker would need to be in possession of the […]
October 9, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Symantec’s most recent statistics have revealed a disturbing trend. Malware designed to compromise checkout pages is seeing a big spike in use, with the company reporting a staggering 248,000 attempts since August 13th of this year, with more than a third of them (36 percent) between September 13th through September 20th. As disturbing as those […]
October 6, 2018 by Vertical Axion
According to this year’s Traveler’s Risk Index, published by The Traveler’s Indemnity Company, a majority of business owners have a somewhat fatalistic view of hacking and data breaches. The index includes 52 percent of survey respondents indicating that they believe a cyber-attack is inevitable. The other statistics in the report paint a grim picture. […]
October 5, 2018 by Vertical Axion
Firefox is upping the ante where digital security is concerned, having just announced the release of a new, free service called ‘Firefox Monitor.’ The new service is designed with one specific goal in mind: To assist users in finding out if their accounts were exposed via a data breach. It was developed in partnership with […]
