File this one away under "confirming things we already knew." A recent study conducted jointly by Blink and Trusona confirmed that people just don't like passwords very much.
Their study tracked the login behavior of 148 participants over a three-week period.
What's old is new again.
Hackers have recently begun re-deploying a decade-old trick called 'ZeroFont' to get around Microsoft's security filters and deliver phishing and spam emails to Office 365 email accounts. The gimmick? Zero-point fonts.
How many web apps do you have on your phone? Probably a ton. Here's something you likely didn't know. Based on the latest research from Positive Technologies, nearly half of them (48 percent) are vulnerable to unauthorized access.
As bad as that is, it's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
Malicious code can wind up on your PC or phone by any number of roads. Companies do their best to guard the digital passes, but invariably, things get missed and the hackers find a way in. It's a constant battle, and sadly, one that the good guys are losing.
More bad news for Intel. Yet another security flaw has been identified in the processors the company makes. This one is so newly discovered that the full technical details have yet to be released. Here's what we know so far, from a recent Intel announcement:
"System software may opt to utilize Lazy FP state restore instead of eager save and restore of the state upon a context switch.
Being "number 1" isn't always a good thing. Rapid7 has just published their third annual "National Exposure Index," and unfortunately, the United States has the dubious honor of being the nation most at risk for a cyber attack on its core services.
It's the end of the line for Yahoo Messenger. As of July, it will be no more, marking the end of an era.
The announcement comes just six months after AIM (the old AOL messaging program) was shut down. The first major messaging programs from the early days of the internet will soon be a thing of the past.
Facebook is in hot water again. Recently, the company admitted that while testing a new feature on the site, they inadvertently made public the posts of more than fourteen million users. The incident occurred between May 18th and May 22nd and occurred when Facebook was testing a new "Featured Posts" enhancement.
Another week, another new threat. This time, in the form of a new strain of malware that researchers are calling InvisiMole. The new threat was discovered by researchers at ESET, who found it on a number of hacked computers in Russia and the Ukraine.
Big changes are coming from Microsoft starting in July (exact date unknown), and it has potentially dire implications if you're using some of the company's older technology.
Microsoft announced that in July, they'll no longer provide forum-based support for a wide range of products and software, including:
Microsoft Band
Zune
Surface Pro
Surface Pro 2
Surface RT
Surface 2
Microsoft Security Essentials
Internet Explorer 10
Office 2010
Office 2013
Windows 7
Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 RT
Although the company didn't cite a specific reason for the change, it seems obvious that this is another move to push people into buying the latest and greatest of the company's offerings.
