More Bad News For Yahoo Users In spite of over one billion Yahoo accounts breached, Yahoo bleeding money, and the company in chaos, Verizon is still going to buy Yahoo, although for a few hundred million dollars less than Yahoo orginally wanted. If you think your personal data is not valuable, why else would Verizon be paying over… Read More »
What is Cloudbleed and Why Should You Care? A company called Cloudflare provides web security and performance boosts to millions of websites including Fitbit, OkCupid, Uber, and Yelp and millions of others. Recently, it was discovered that Cloudflare has been leaking user data on to the Web from September 22 2016 until February 18, 2017. The leak was discovered by… Read More »
Beware of the Google Chrome ‘Missing Font’ Hack PLEASE NOTE: EMSISOFT USERS ARE PROTECTED FROM THIS HACK. This week a very well executed malware attack aimed at users who visit compromised web sites was found by Mahmoud Al-Qudsi of NeoSmart Technologies. The hack tries to trick users into believing the reason why the font on the page they’re… Read More »
Wake Up Yahoo: You’re the Security Problem… Not Me! Introduction A while back, we published an article urging those with Yahoo accounts to close their accounts and get a Gmail account or an Outlook.com account. We still recommend that you cancel your Yahoo account by following the instructions here. However knowing that many will continue to keep and… Read More »
The Anatomy of a Scam We featured this article several months ago, but we are reprising it because so many people are again getting hooked by scams just like the one we describe in this article. We don’t want it to happen to you. Knowledge is power and knowing what to do if scammers try to trick you… Read More »
Beware Adobe Acrobat Reader DC First, if you’re wondering what Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is, according to Adobe… “Adobe Acrobat Reader DC software is the free global standard for reliably viewing, printing, and commenting on PDF documents…” Installing the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Adobe’s free PDF reader, it attempts to install an extension in… Read More »