There is a new Threat Spotlight released by Barracuda Networks.
One of the biggest trends in 2019 (where threats against businesses of all sizes are concerned) now takes the form of poisoned documents attached to emails.
The company analyzed more than 300,000 email samples collected over the past twelve months.
If you've ever been a student or employee of the Georgia Institute of Technology, be advised that any personally identifiable information the university had on you may have been compromised.
Recently, the university reported an instance of unauthorized access into databases connected to its web app.
If you frequent any of the following restaurants and paid them a visit between May 23, 2018 through March 18, 2019, your credit card data may have been compromised.
The parent company of these chains, Earl Enterprise, recently announced that an unspecified number of store locations were found to have been infected by PoS malware.
If you're a Mac user and looking for next-level antivirus protection, we've got some potentially good news.
Microsoft recently announced that their enterprise security platform, (Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection) is now available for macOS.
To reflect the product's move away from offering protection exclusively to Windows-based systems, the company tweaked the name of the product.
Fear is a fantastic way to spread malware, which is why hackers around the world are using the fear of a flu pandemic as a hook to install a nasty strain of ransomware.
Researchers at MyOnlineSecurity have detected a cunning email campaign which spoofs the Centers for Disease Control and bears headlines warning of a Flu Pandemic.
If you do business with either American Express (AMEX) or Netflix, be on the alert. Windows Defender Security Intel has recently reported the detection of two major new phishing-style campaigns aimed at the customers of both businesses.
Recipients have been receiving emails that appear identical to official Netflix and American Express communications.
Are you or were you a MySpace user? If so, we have bad news.
The struggling company recently announced that when they attempted to migrate all user data to new servers, something in the process went wrong.
As a result, massive amounts of user data was lost.
Are you a Facebook user? If you are, it may be time to change your password. KrebsOnSecurity recently reported that it found hundreds of millions of Facebook user account names and passwords stored in plain text and searchable by more than twenty-thousand Facebook employees.
If you've purchased bedding from either MyPillow or Amerisleep, your data may have been compromised. These companies are two popular mattress and bedding merchants operating in the US. This is according to a recent report coming to us from RiskIQ. The hacking group Magecart appears to be behind both breaches, which is bad news for both companies and their customers.
A small but significant update is coming in the next version of Windows 10, which should have the company's massive user base breathing a sigh of relief.
The company is experimenting with a new feature that it can use to trigger automatic uninstalls of buggy updates.
