When curved displays first appeared on the market, most people thought it was just a gimmick and a passing fad that’s not worth the extra cost. And while that’s partially true for TVs, it’s a whole different story when it comes to monitors. So, why exactly do curved monitors make more sense than curved TVs,…
Justin Smith has been hit with a one-two punch of bad luck. First, the Toronto man was duped by a job scam that made off with $3,000. Then his longtime bank, Tangerine, helped itself to money Smith had in his tax-free savings account to recoup what it had lost in the scam. “You keep your money in…
Eight-year-old Stantinko botnet updates its Linux malware. Stantinko, one of the oldest malware botnets still operating today, has rolled out updates to its class of Linux malware, upgrading its trojan to pose as the legitimate Apache web server process (httpd) in order to make detection harder on infected hosts.
Check Point researchers recently encountered WAPDropper, a new malware which downloads and executes an additional payload. In the current campaign, it drops a WAP premium dialer which subscribes its victims to premium services without their knowledge or consent.
The critical and important-severity flaws were found by a team at the China-based Tiunfu Cup hacking challenge. VMware has hurried out fixes for a critical flaw in its ESXi hypervisor, a few weeks after it was found during China’s Tianfu Cup hacking competition. The use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2020-4004) has a CVSS score of 9.3 out of…
A newly uncovered trojan malware campaign is targeting businesses and higher education in what appears to be an effort to steal usernames, passwords and other private information as well as creating a persistent backdoor onto compromised systems. Jupyter infostealer has been detailed by cybersecurity company Morphisec who discovered it on the network of an unnamed higher education establishment in…
Chances are you may have logged into your updated laptop or PC come face to face with an intrusive, windowless advert for Microsoft Edge whilst using Windows 10 in the last few weeks. You’re not alone, and apparently, this unwelcome ‘feature’ may be around to stay.
Homeland Security cybersecurity agency says update Google Chrome as attackers home in on new security flaws. Within the space of just three short weeks, Google has patched no less than five potentially dangerous vulnerabilities in the Chrome web browser. These are not your common vulnerabilities either, but rather ones known as zero-days. A zero-day being…
The simplest way to keep your account active is to periodically visit Gmail, Drive, or Photos on the web or mobile, while signed in and connected to the internet.
Windows 10 can’t remember passwords for some users, Microsoft has confirmed. Here’s the 5 step workaround. Windows 10 users have complained about apps, including Outlook, OneDrive, Chrome and Edge, forgetting their passwords since the May 2020 update. That update to Windows 10 2004 happened back in April, yet the password problem still remains.