Share There are strange events swirling around LastPass. LastPass is a popular password safe and identity protection service. Recently Twitter exploded with reports from around the world of people who received a notification from LastPass regarding a string of suspicious login attempts. Most of them came from countries other than the ones the impacted users lived in. Naturally this led to speculation that LastPass had been hacked and some portion of the passwords stored by their [...]
If you're like most cellphone users, you absolutely love the automatic call blocking feature that most companies offer as part of their standard service. A call comes in from a "suspicious" number and the phone just blocks it. That's awesome and even better is you can add new numbers to it. So on those occasions when a spam call gets through it's a simple matter to add the problematic number to the "don't let through" list and you've got one less thing to worry about.[...]
Surveys have long been a playground of hackers and scammers. That's true at any time of the year but it's especially true around the Holidays when such scams seem to attract even more unwitting victims. In fact, some estimates place scammer profits revolving around fake surveys as being nearly $80 million a month. So it's big business for them. The particulars vary somewhat from one operation to the next. Here's how they work in general: First the scammer targets a [...]
There's a new strain of ransomware to be concerned about in the form of AvosLocker. This is from security firm Sophos who warns that the new strain of human-operated ransomware is one to watch. AvosLocker burst onto the scene over the summer of this year (2021). Having enjoyed some success with their product the gang behind the code is now on the hunt for partners in a bid to fill the gap left by REvil's departure. One of the key features of the malware's design is the fact that it[...]
Scammers have a new way of ripping people off this year. If you're not mindful of it, it could literally cost you. Gift cards have always been fairly popular, but this year, they seem to be more popular than ever. According to the online fraud prevention company, Bolster, thieves have been hard at work setting up bogus 'gift card balance' checking websites designed to siphon money away from unsuspecting consumers. Here's' how it works: You get a gift card for Christmas and put it in a[...]
With the release of Firefox 92 back in September Mozilla made a change that may well doom the browser. If you use Firefox you have probably already noticed it. When you start typing an address you will find sponsored Firefox contextual suggestions in a drop-down list. In simplest terms companies pay a premium to get put on the short list of offered suggestions. This essentially makes the Firefox browser adware. The company denies this. They claim that they the reason the new feature was [...]
Are you a QuickBooks user? If so you're going to be thrilled by the company's recent announcement that Excel integration is coming soon. You read that correctly. Soon you will be able to sync QuickBooks and Excel which should simplify your life a great deal. This is but the latest in a long line of similar moves Intuit QuickBooks has made. Over the past few years the company has integrated their wildly popular software with a variety of other platforms like Bill.com, HubSpot, LeanLaw [...]
Do you own an Amazon Kindle? Amazon has a warning for you if you do. Beware. Hackers are now using poisoned ebooks to delete the contents of infected Kindle readers and take control of a victim's Amazon account. The hackers take advantage of the fact that on any given day there are literally hundreds of ebooks offered for free on Amazon's platform. By disguising their poisoned ebook as just another free title it is easy for the poisoned ebook to get lost in the shuffle. Users are [...]
The magnetic stripe on the back of credit and debit cards has been a standard feature for as long as most people can remember. MasterCard recently made a rather surprising announcement concerning those stripes and are planning to phase them out of most markets beginning in 2024. The company will no longer require US-based companies to issue chip cards with magnetic stripes beginning in 2027 as an intermediary step. Another intermediary step on MasterCard's road map is to phase out the [...]
Retailers, hospitals and financial institutions tend to be the targets of choice for the hackers of the world. Of course they're not the only targets. The simple truth is that any company can find itself in the cross hairs of a hacker. The most recent victim is Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte. In addition to shutting down manufacturing operations in Taiwan the attack also took a number of the company's web-based systems. They include its online support and the Taiwanese [...]
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