Wish is an e-commerce website and app that allows buyers to make huge savings by buying directly from merchants. While the company can offer great savings, buying directly from companies based in China comes with its own complications. Below are some of the dangers Wish shoppers face and how to avoid them. Sizes Can be … Read more
2020 has been one of the worst years for cybersecurity. Researchers have recorded a huge spike in phishing scams. Healthcare companies expect ransomware attacks to have quadrupled this past year. Despite data breaches increasing by 67% since 2014, only 33% of US citizens have ever checked if they’ve suffered a breach. The Biggest Data Breaches … Read more
Hackers had been working overtime in 2020, and they decided to end the year with a bang. Not long after major security firm FireEye announced hackers had infiltrated them, the relatively unknown business SolarWinds found itself in the middle of a global attack against the U.S. government. How SolarWinds Became the Center of Global Attack … Read more
Pornhub is finally listening. After years of mounting pressure, the massive pornography website just took a big step towards protecting the general public and victims of the pornography industry. Pornhub Is Exposed The New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof tipped the first domino in this saga when it published a damning article against Pornhub earlier … Read more
Multiple Google services are down this morning. We have received multiple requests from concerned Google-users that they are unable to login into their accounts. These services are affected: Gmail Google Suite Youtube Google Maps The Google services started to fail on Monday, December 14th, 2020, around 06:30 Eastern Time. The Google outage seems to be … Read more
Cybersecurity firm FireEye has been a frontline defender for government agencies, major companies, and various other victims that have been hacked. They’ve now become the victims. It is believed that the firm was infiltrated by a nation-state–presumably Russian intelligence–rather than individual hackers. This type of breach could have lasting implications for a wide range of … Read more
Hacking attempts have increased drastically during the Covid-19 pandemic, and homeworkers are especially vulnerable. The real danger now is not necessarily being hacked, but the lost ability to recover online accounts. We have learned first hand that multiple tech companies, like Facebook, struggle with human resources that drastically reduces their support quality and time. One … Read more
Anyone can get hacked, even the richest and most famous among us. Despite having money and teams behind them, celebrities need a plan, just like everyone else. Here are five of the most notable celebrity hacks of the last decade. What do Miley Cyrus and Rihanna have in common? Besides being best-selling artists, they’ve both … Read more
In a recent viral video, United States President Donald Trump said that “nobody gets hacked.” Trump’s comments were subsequently slammed as “dumb and dangerous.” Trump, himself, has been hacked twice — and the statistics on hacking get scarier each year. On October 19, 2020, during a campaign rally in Tuscon, AZ, United States President Donald … Read more
Sony has recently updated PSN 2FA security features to include 3rd-party apps as well as texting to a number. The update is a step forward in Sony fixing their terrible relationship with security that has led to numerous problems over the past few years. Has this latest update actually managed to rectify PSN’s poor security? … Read more