According to data collected by Truecaller, the number of robocalls worldwide increased by a staggering 300 percent in 2018, although they were down slightly in the U.S. This data, however, should be taken with a grain of salt for two reasons.
First and foremost, Truecaller did not research to collect the data.
Microsoft recently announced an addition to Windows 10 that should make the lives of Enterprise and power users a whole lot easier.
Running an unknown, untrusted .exe file on your machine can be an event that fills you with dread.
The best case, of course, is that everything turns out fine.
Recently Facebook fessed up to a bug in their photo API that exposed the photos belonging to nearly seven million of the company's users to app developers.
The way the photo API is supposed to work is as follows: When you give an app permission to access your Facebook photos, that app is only supposed to gain access to the ones you've posted on your timeline.
There's a new, widespread phishing campaign underway that you need to be aware of if you use the Apple App store at all. At this time, no one knows who's behind the campaign, but already, a surprising number of people have been taken in by it.
The campaign works like this:
You'll receive an email that appears to be from Apple confirming your recent purchase of a $30 app.
Do you own an Android device? Are you a PayPal user? If you answered yes to both of those questions, you have something new to worry about.
A limited number of versions of an app called "Optimization Battery" contains a Trojan designed to steal money from PayPal accounts, including those that are protected by two-factor authentication.
Three years ago, Microsoft decided to retire their beleaguered Internet Explorer browser. It was a disaster, riddled with critical security flaws and technologically far behind Chrome and Firefox. The company vowed to do better, so they started fresh and introduced Microsoft Edge.
The annual list of the worst passwords in use during 2018 has just been published by SplashData.
This year's list features a number of the usual suspects, but there are also a few new entries.
Here are the ten worst passwords in use, according to the data:
123456
password
123456789
12345678
12345
111111
1234567
sunshine
qwerty
iloveyou
Other notable entries include "welcome" at #13, "football" at #16, "Donald" at #23, "password1" at #24, "freedom" at #29, "hello" at #68, "test" at #88, and "whatever" at #91. Obviously, if you see a password you use anywhere on this list, you should change it immediately, as these are incredibly easy to guess, which makes breaching your system a trivial matter.
If you're a Google Plus user, you're probably already aware that Google has plans to bring an end to the service.
What you may not know is that recently, Google+ suffered another breach in a long string of breaches.
This most recent incident put the private information of more than 52 million users at risk.
Marriott now has the dubious honor of having suffered one of the worst breaches in history. Granted, the 500 million customer records recently stolen from the company pales in comparison to Yahoo's loss of nearly three billion customer records, but Marriott's number is certainly nothing to scoff at.
Apple doesn't tend to share well with other corporations, but they have made a few efforts to expand their services to the platforms of their competitors. You can, for instance, download Apple Music onto an Android device or on Sonos Speakers. Soon, you'll be able to access Apple Music on your Amazon Echo.
