Industry Updates

MAC Computers Are Still Suffering From EFI Hack

One of the first, best pieces of advice computer owners get is to always keep their operating system up to date. It’s sound advice, because OS manufacturers generally do a […]

Hackers Infiltrate Deloitte Accounting Firm

Deloitte is not exactly a household name. In fact, unless you use the company’s services, you may not have ever heard of them, even though they’re one of the largest […]

Google Personal Data Requests Are On The Rise

Google’s latest Transparency Report is out, and the results have raised concerns with privacy advocates from around the world. This time last year, Google received 44,943 requests relating to 76,713 […]

Literally Every Yahoo Email User Was Hacked In 2013 Breach

Late last year, Yahoo announced that it was the victim of the largest data breach in history. It impacted, by their initial estimates, fully one third of their user base, […]

Did Equifax Send Concerned Users To A Phishing Site?

By now, you’ve probably heard that Equifax recently suffered a massive data breach which left them with a considerable amount of egg on their faces. The investigation into that matter […]

Hackers May Have Accessed Corporate Document Filings At The SEC

The hackers of the world have been busy recently, but this latest report from the SEC shows that not only has the number of their attacks been increasing, but also […]

Be Careful – Fake Amazon Emails Could Hold Locky Ransomware

For a time, it seemed we had reached the high-water mark where Locky Ransomware was concerned. After the big, global attack earlier this year, interest in that particular strain of […]

Car Tracking Device Company Had Its Passwords Leaked

We’ve seen a lot of hacking attacks so far this year, but the successful breach of SVR Tracking may take the prize as the most invasive attack of 2017. If […]

Bill Gates’ One Windows Regret: CTRL, ALT, DELETE

Control-Alt-Delete. It’s a series of keystrokes that pretty much everyone who has ever used a Windows PC knows well. It is, after all, your escape hatch. When the program starts […]

Apple Safari Browser May Have Security Issues According To Google

Google’s Project Zero Team has created a new tool for testing web browsers in order to gauge how secure they are. The team recently conducted an extensive test on the […]

More Medical Devices Are Found To Be Vulnerable To Hacking

Things continue to worsen on the smart medical device front. Recently, the USDA issued a recall order on six different models of pacemakers, all of which were vulnerable to hacks […]

Glass May Replace Aluminum In Future Spinning Hard Drives

Manufacturers of hard disks are in trouble and they know it. They have been since the development of SSDs, and as these newer disks grow in capacity and continue to […]