Are you using a device that's running on Windows 10 Mobile? If so, you don't have a lot of company. Sadly, the OS never really caught on. Microsoft pulled the plug on its development, announcing that the end of OS support would stop.
Unfortunately, that day has arrived.
Google has a solid reputation when it comes to making a steady stream of improvements to its large and growing base of products and services. They have demonstrated a track record when it comes to enhancing user experience. Recently, they've proved that once again by adding a new feature of a Gmail attachment that allows you to forward one or more emails you've received as attachments.
Researchers from Group-IB monitor the Dark Web and have recently reported the appearance of nearly half a million credit card records available for sale.
Each record is valued at more than half a million dollars. The records were rolled out in staggered fashion, with the first file containing some 30,000 records.
If you use Google's Chrome web browser, there's a new threat you should be aware of. A new trojan targeting Windows-based machines will attempt to steal passwords stored in the Chrome browser.
Dubbed CStealer, it was discovered by the Malware Hunter Team.
There's a new strain of malware in the wild. It is targeting Android devices and disguised as an innocuous chat app.
Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered it in two different apps so far: Chatrious and the Apex App. Chatrious has since vanished from Google's Play Store, but at the time this piece was written, the Apex App is still available for download.
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.
