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New PayPal Phishing Attempts Are After Your Account Info Hackers and scammers have hit the ground running in 2021, launching an extensive new phishing campaign that targets the legions of PayPal users around the world. The campaign is being run on both text message and email channels and if...

Brand New Ransomware Found On The Internet Hackers around the world didn't waste any time. New Year's celebrations have barely ended, and already, we have our first reports of a new malware strain to help ring in 2021. Dubbed Babuk Locker, the strain is aimed squarely at...

Big Changes Coming To Microsoft Outlook In Coming Years Microsoft has been moving toward a unified 'single version' of Outlook that would offer a seamless user experience across all platforms and devices. Unfortunately, thus far, that objective has remained elusive. In late 2020, however, the company announced 'Project Monarch'...

Hacker Attacks On Healthcare Industry Are On The Rise In the early days of the pandemic, several major groups of hackers pledged that their activities would not be aimed at institutions that were engaged in vaccine research. There was at least one high profile instance where the agreement was...

Adobe Flash Has Reached End of Life Status Is your company's website built around Adobe's aging Flash Player? If so, be aware that you are officially on your own. Flash reached its EOL (End of Life) as of January 1st of this year (2021). From a business perspective,...

Weak Passwords Are Making Easy Work For This New Malware There's a new worm making the rounds on Windows and Linux-based servers that you should be aware of. This nasty bit of code has been spreading rapidly, using simple brute-force methods to break into public facing-services like Tomcat, MySQL, Jenkins,...

Security Incident Exposes Some T-Mobile Customer Data In 2020, there have been a number of high-profile data breaches, and as we move closer to the end of the year, we have yet another to report. This time, cellular carrier T-Mobile is the victim, having recently disclosed a...

Be Careful Your Home Security Cameras Can Be Hacked Various hackers around the world have found a new hobby. Recently, there has been a rise in 'Swatting Attacks', which have seen hackers take advantage of the notoriously weak or nonexistent security in 'smart' devices built for home use. Hackers...

Kawasaki Is The Latest Company To Endure Data Breach Japanese juggernaut Kawasaki Heavy Industries is the latest company to fall victim to a security breach. The company, which employs more than 35,000 people and has offices all over the globe recently disclosed the breach to its customers. The company...

Appliance Maker Whirlpool Suffers Ransomware Attack In 2020, hackers around the world have increasingly gravitated to ransomware as their preferred method of attack. This year, there have been dozens of high-profile, successful attacks on companies around the world. Whirlpool, one of the largest home appliance manufacturers...

Millions Of Windows 7 Users Remain Despite Support Ending One year ago, Microsoft officially ended support for the venerable Windows 7 operating system. No new security patches have been issued, which means that anyone running a Windows 7 machine at this point is taking a tremendous security risk. That...