Revealed: Anti-virus company Avast has been selling data from its 435 million users to companies including Google, Microsoft, Home Depot and Pepsi including their web history, location and porn searches Avast used a browser plugin and antivirus software to track its users The company tracked web history of millions of its 435 million users That … Avast sells your data to other companies
Ransomware hits hundreds of dentist offices in the US Ransomware group gains access to dental software backend, deploys ransomware on customers’ systems. By Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day | August 29, 2019 — 16:20 GMT (09:20 PDT) | Topic: Security https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-hits-hundreds-of-dentist-offices-in-the-us/ Backups, Backups, Backups, & Restores – the ransomware antidote Recently, dental professionals were targeted by hackers who attempted to extort ransoms … Backups, Backups, Backups, & Restores – the ransomware antidote
In small businesses, I see reoccurring issues: The file server is out of space. We don’t have a file server, so we email documents to each other. We have a file server, but our remote workers can’t access the files. The one hard drive that contains all of our data went caput for no apparent … Secure, cloud-based file system storage for your organization @ $0.023/GB/month
This is a pretty basic phishing scam, the email or message or website will ask you to provide your email address and the password to access that email account. With this information, they can review all of the emails that you have sent or received, reset passwords and access emails on other online services, such … Don’t get Phished by a hacker – don’t give a site your email address & email password – ever!
Thunderbolt Vulnerabilities Leave Computers Wide-Open, Researchers Find – slashdot.org Be sure that you trust the USB-C device that you plug into the Thunderbolt port on your brand new computer. In order to achieve the high-throughput speeds available with Thunderbolt, the security model of USB-A and USB-B was side-stepped. This side-step allows for an order magnitude … Thunderbolt Vulnerabilities Leave Computers Wide-Open, Researchers Find – slashdot.org
Case study, Amazon Ring’s 1-way video doorbell sends audio and video in plain/text, meaning that anyone who hacks the signal can also see and hear the conversation. It’s one thing to have great home security with IoT devices, but you also need to make sure your security doesn’t have a hole. Set it and forget … Adding encryption to your Home Security System – not with Amazon Ring
