Facebook revealed on September 28, 2018 that attackers managed to exploit a vulnerability on the site that allowed them to take over accounts of Facebook users. The issue, which affected about 50 […]
VirusTotal, which is part of Alphabet's cybersecurity company Chronicle, announced the release of VirusTotal Enterprise on September 27, 2018. VirusTotal was previously available as a free and premium service. The free service […]
Recent versions of the Android operating system display notifications on the lock screen of the device by default. Some users may like this as it gives them access to notifications on first […]
Mozilla revealed today that it plans to run a Shield Study in the United States to get data on a new feature that it calls Firefox Monitor. Firefox Monitor is a security […]
Mozilla plans to roll out an improvement to the Firefox browser's Sync functionality; Firefox users will receive a prompt when they disconnect the browser profile from Firefox Sync that provides them with […]
Anyone may create a Firefox Account. The account is used for a number of purposes such as syncing browser data between different profiles or devices, commenting or rating add-ons on Mozilla's add-on […]
Twitter revealed on May 3, 2018 that the company stored user passwords in plain text for a considerable amount of time. The company patched the issue and investigated potential breaches but concluded […]
ProtonMail is a secure email service based in Switzerland featuring end-to-end encryption, and a strong focus on privacy and security. The service is available as a web version, and as applications for […]
German testing authority Stiftung Warentest looked closely at nine commercial password managers in its most recent print issue. The password managers that it reviewed and looked were: Dashlane Premium, McAfee True Key […]
Backblaze Personal Backup is a $5 per month online backup plan that promises unlimited storage, no file size and unrestricted bandwidth. The California based company Backblaze has been in business since 2007. […]
CrashPlan CEO Joe Payne announced today plans to shut down the company's consumer backup service CrashPlan for Home entirely. According to the announcement, CrashPlan for Home subscriptions are not offered anymore already, […]
The makers of the popular Chrome and Firefox extension Copyfish announced yesterday that the Chrome version of the extension was hijacked. According to the posted information on the company blog, an attacker […]
Google Backup and Sync is a new program by Google that combines Google Photos and Google Drive functionality in a single client application. The new client replaces the old clients that Google […]
LastPass Authenticator is a free application for Android and iOS devices that can generate two-factor authentication codes for you. The application is compatible with LastPass accounts, but works also with other services […]
Researchers have discovered a new phishing attack that is currently underway that is targeting Google Gmail accounts in a sophisticated way. What's interesting about this specific attack is that it uses a […]
Avira Password Manager is a new security product by German company Avira which is probably best known for its antivirus offerings. The password manager niche is crowded, and if you want to […]
Dropbox users who have associated a Google email address with their account may use Google directly now to sign in to their account. Dropbox users up until now could only use the […]
As you may know, I use Thunderbid as may main desktop email program. I use it with various email providers, including Gmail. Everything worked fine up until this morning. I received mails […]
If you are a Dropbox customer, you may have received an email from the company informing you that it reset the password of the Dropbox account. The email offers little information about […]
You may link a Microsoft account to a Windows 10 license on a device on Windows 10 version 1607 and later (Anniversary Update). The main benefit of doing so is that it […]
LastPass launched a new version of the company's Authenticator application for Android and iOS devices yesterday that makes the 2-factor authentication process easier. The new LastPass Authenticator app uses push-based delivery of […]
You are asked to enter an account password on most Windows 10 machines before you get access to the operating system. Windows 10 users may choose a variety of authentication options: from […]
LastPass has a bunch of critical problems of which at least one allows attackers to compromise the password manager remotely according to Google researcher Tavis Ormandy. LastPass is one of the most […]
TeamViewer announced yesterday that it has started to roll out two new protective features for the popular remote desktop software. There has been lots of talk about TeamViewer's recent service outage and […]
TeamViewer, the company behind the popular remote desktop software of the same name, experienced a service outage caused by a denial of service attack on the company's DNS server infrastructure on June […]
Robyn Hicock of the Microsoft Identity Protection Team published a Password Guidance paper recently in which recommendations are made to IT administrators and users in regards to password security and management. Passwords […]
LastPass Authenticator is a new mobile application by the makers of LastPass for Google Android, Microsoft Windows and Apple iOS devices to generate 2-factor authentication codes for the software and other programs. […]
Sean Cassidy discovered recently that the popular password manager LastPass is vulnerable to a phishing attack that takes advantage of the way messages are displayed to users of the service. The method […]
Two-Step Verification is a popular method to improve the security of accounts by adding another verification step to the authentication process. It blocks attackers from accessing the account with the password alone, […]
Password managers are great as they store a virtually unlimited number of important information, accounts, passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive data. They keep you from having to memorize unique strong […]
VeraCrypt is one of the few programs that came into existence after development of True Crypt was abandoned. Even though True Crypt's security audit did not uncover any backdoors in the program […]
Steam is a popular gaming platform that you use to buy and play games, use community features or a plethora of other features such as a virtual item marketplace or a workshop […]
Yahoo announced the launch of the a new on-demand password feature today in the United States. If you have a US IP you get the new on-demand passwords options under account security […]
My Moto G was updated to Android 5.0.2 finally after waiting months for the update to become available and one of the first things I ran into was the new notification system. […]
If you ever had your computer compromised by a computer virus, hacker or other malicious software running on it you know that you are done after you remove the threat from it […]
Symantec VIP, the VIP stands for Validation & IP Protection, is one of the technologies that the company got when it acquired VeriSign. I started using a VeriSign Identity Protection Device back […]
Update: From what has been gathered so far, it appears as if this is not a new hack, and that the list may have been created from different sources. Google has posted […]
For many Internet users, email is still the number one method of communicating with others. While on-the-go users may have switched to messaging and video chat, email is playing a big part […]
Gmail users can access their account on the official website or by using first-party or third-party apps and services instead. A first party app is for instance Google's official Gmail app for […]
The cloud backup provider Dropbox is about to release a new version of its desktop client software for all supported operating systems. Dropbox 2.8.0 is currently available as a release candidate build […]
