New Bug Discovered in iOS That Can Disable iPhone Apps
27-February-2018
Last year, Apple had to fix a “special character” bug in their Message app that was more of an annoyance than anything. This year, a new special character bug…
Google Will Get Tougher On Websites Not Using HTTPS
26-February-2018
Google is poised to make an important change to its Chrome browser beginning in July 2018.
Here’s the summary from Emily Schechter, the Google Chrome Security Product Manager:
“For the past…
Changes To Google Images Will Make Image Theft Difficult
24-February-2018
mage theft is one of the biggest problems on the internet. If you’re a photographer, you’ve almost certainly lost money because people find your work online and make a…
2018 Olympics Hit By Malware
23-February-2018
Hackers are picky about their victims. They’ll target just about any group or organization, including the 2018 Olympics.
Cisco’s Talos Group recently identified a new strain of malware they’ve dubbed…
Smart TV’s May Be Tracking You And Vulnerable To Hacks
21-February-2018
Do you own a smart TV? More than half of all television sales in the US last year were smart TVs, so chances are decent that you own one….
Vulnerability Found In Popular Grammar Checker
19-February-2018
On February 2, Tavis Ormandy, a researcher on Google’s Project Zero team discovered a critical flaw in the popular online grammar checking app, “Grammarly.” Tens of millions of users…
Almost Half Of Top Ranking Websites Are Vulnerable
17-February-2018
Menlo Security just released their third annual “State of the Web” report and it’s not pretty. The headline finding is that 42% of the top 100,000 sites as ranked…
Malware Makers Testing Vulnerability Of Meltdown And Spectre
13-February-2018
Security researchers from around the web are reporting finding an increasing number of instances of proof of concept (PoC) code that incorporates the recently discovered Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.
If…
Fitness Trackers Could Be A National Security Risk
10-February-2018
If ever there were two phrases that didn’t seem to go together, they would probably be “Fitness trackers” and “National Security Risk.” The very idea that a simple fitness…
700,000 Potentially Malicious Apps Removed From Google Last Year
08-February-2018
Google recently released their Play Store stats for 2017. The results are both encouraging and disheartening. Overall, Google caught and removed more than 700,000 malicious apps from the Play…