Do you use an Android App called 'WiFi Finder'? If so, be advised that your network password has likely been exposed, based on research conducted by Sanyam Jain, of the GDI Foundation.
Jain discovered an unprotected database online associated with the app that contained more than two million network passwords.
Do you frequent the website bodybuilding.com?
If so, be advised that the site has been breached.
According to a recent statement by the company behind the site, the breach occurred in February, 2019 and had its origins in a phishing email the company received back in July of 2018.
A detailed account of the incident was published on the company's help center and contained most of the elements we've come to expect when things like this happen:
The company is very sorry that it happened
"Certain" customer/member information may have been compromised
The company has been working with law enforcement and has brought in a third party to assist with the forensic investigation, which is ongoing
The company also stressed that while partial payment account numbers were compromised, no full debit or credit card information was at risk.
Microsoft recently issued an important support document that your IT staff needs to be aware of.
In part, their notice reads as follows:
"Inappropriate drive reassignment can occur on eligible computers that have an external USB device or SD memory card attached during the installation of the May 2019 update.
Back in July 2017, Microsoft created a bit of an uproar when they released a build of Windows 10 that promoted their new Paint 3D app.
Paired with the new arrival was an announcement that the classic Windows Paint program would be deprecated and ultimately removed from the OS in subsequent versions.
The venerable banking Trojan known as Q-bot is back in the news, having recently been spotted in the wild as part of a sophisticated new phishing campaign designed to claim a new generation of victims.
Q-bot is one of the oldest banking Trojans still in use, and has a history that stretches back more than a decade.
According to FBI statistics, in 2013 there were 991 tracked incidents of ransomware attacks against business, resulting in losses slightly exceeding half a million dollars.
The number of incidents steadily increased through 2016 when they reached 2,673 for the year, with total losses just shy of two and a half million dollars.
Twitter recently announced the addition of a new "Hide Replies" feature, which will give the platform's users a bit more control over conversations that stem from the tweets they make.
Twitter Senior Product Manager Michelle Yasmeen Haq had this to say about the new addition:
"With this feature, the person who started a conversation could choose to hide replies to their tweets.
How much of the web's traffic would you estimate to be fake, if you had to guess? The answer to that question might surprise you. According to the 2019 Bad Bot Report published security firm Distil Networks, the answer is just over twenty percent.
A major Chinese developer is in hot water with Google from an extensive BuzzFeed investigation which revealed that the company's apps were abusing user permissions, allowing the company to commit fraud on a massive scale.
As a result of BuzzFeed's findings, Google took the step of removing six different apps made by the company down from the play store.
Microsoft recently confirmed that the login credentials of one of its customer support agents was compromised.
This allows unknown third parties to log in and gain access to data contained in an unspecified number of users' Hotmail and Outlook email accounts.
