Microsoft recently updated their support page and offered additional guidance to network admins as it relates to Office 365's built-in spam filters.  The gist of the update is that they strongly advise against turning the auto-filters off.

They provided some additional guidelines if you decide to bypass them for one reason or another.

Bad news for Android users.  Recently, Google discovered that more than two hundred apps on the Play Store had been infected with the 'BeiTaAd' plugin. This plugin is the latest in a large and growing collection of advertising libraries that have been misused and abused by advertisers.

Chances are good that you or someone you know has had some type of medical testing done by the US Clinical Laboratory, Quest Diagnostics. If that's the case, then there's bad news.

The company recently announced that they've suffered a massive data breach that exposed personal, confidential patient information of more than 11.9 million people.

A recent report published by nCipher confirms what many business owners have known for a long time.  Their employees are the weakest link when it comes to data security.

The nCipher report, however, adds a disturbing exclamation point to the data with a few details you're likely to find shocking.

Linux systems aren't targeted by hackers as often as Windows and iOS-based systems, but they're certainly not immune.

Recently, security researchers have discovered a new strain of malware developed by Chinese hackers, specifically for the purpose of targeting Linux-based systems.

Do you use the news aggregator service called Flipboard?

If so, be aware that the company has recently started notifying its user base that hackers breached their network and had access to their internal systems for approximately nine months.  If you haven't heard from them yet, be on the lookout for an official communication from the company.

Do you have a Checkers or Rally's fast food location near you?  Is it your go-to fast food joint?  If so, be advised that they're the latest company to fall victim to a hacking attack.

The company recently discovered evidence of malware on its payment processing systems in a total of 102 of the company's stores, which amounts to about 15 percent of their total locations.

If you haven't already installed the 1903 Windows 10 update released in May, be advised.

When you install it, you'll start seeing warning popup boxes any time you connect to a WiFi network that is using TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) or WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) to encrypt and secure those connections.

If you're still using Windows 7, you probably already know that Microsoft recently threw users of some of it's older operating systems a bone when they issued a rare, emergency security patch designed to better protect their systems. Unfortunately, there's a problem.

Even companies that are normally quite good at providing security for their users occasionally wind up with egg on their faces.  Google is a classic case in point, in this instance.  Recently, the company announced that a bug in an older segment of their GSuite code base resulted in the recent discovery that the company had been storing customer passwords in an encrypted but un-hashed form for more than a decade.