According to data collected by Microsoft, phishing emails accounted for 0.62 percent of all inbox receipts in September 2019 and are becoming harder to identify.
That's up from 0.31 percent just one year prior to that.
The increase is alarming of course, but at first glance, these look like fairly harmless numbers.
FaceApp is in the news again but this time it's for a counterintelligence threat.
Several months ago, watchdog groups around the world sounded the alarm about the Russian-made app, which raised curious eyebrows.
It just takes a photo you upload to it and ages you, what's the harm in that?
According to the FBI, quite a bit, actually.
If you use holiday e-cards war on Thanksgiving and Christmas, be warned that they may contain malware or viruses.
This war is being waged by hackers and scammers, and they're waging it by poisoning Holiday eCards designed to facilitate the distribution of malware.
Recently, the Magento Marketplace was acquired by Adobe and suffered a breach of exposure for a limited amount of user data to an unknown third party.
When Adobe discovered evidence of the breach, they temporarily shut the marketplace down so they could assess the extent of the breach.
The 2019 Holiday Season is officially upon us, and unfortunately, that means you need to apply scam awareness because scammers around the world are ramping up for another busy season.
Deals abound on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Sadly, those two big shopping days mark the beginning of a mad sprint to push out as many shopping-related scams as possible.
Microsoft RDP has its share of problems with VNC applications.
That simple truth has sparked the rise of a number of open-source VNC (Virtual Network Computing) applications, which allow a user to remotely control another computer.
Regardless of which VNC solution you use, they all work pretty much the same way.
Since October 2018, Microsoft engineers have been tracking a new strain of cryptomining malware specifically designed to target Windows machines.
As malware goes, this one isn't particularly dangerous.
It's not designed to mass delete files, lock your system down or flood you with pop-up ads.
Are you a fan of Google's Cloud Print service? It's fantastic because it allows you to print from anywhere to anywhere, which makes it utterly invaluable.
Like so many great services Google has introduced over the years, for a variety of reasons, the company has decided to pull the plug on it after keeping the service in Beta for more than a decade.
Recently the US branch of the global telecom company T-Mobile disclosed a security breach that impacted more than 1 million customer's personal data. The T-mobile data breach revealed certain information belonging to a small number of the company's prepaid cellphone users.
Early in 2019, a new strain of ransomware appeared. Called "DeathRansom," its bark was initially much worse than its bite. Researchers quickly discovered that the new strain only pretended to encrypt a user's files.
The company Fortinet found a threat via radar detected a new ransomware variant that they break down for you here.
