Apple recently made an update to their XProtect antivirus software, which is the company’s built-in means of protecting Macs from virus threats.Patrick Wardle is one of the best-known Mac security experts. According to him, Apple released two new signatures that...
According to FBI statistics, in 2013 there were 991 tracked incidents of ransomware attacks against business, resulting in losses slightly exceeding half a million dollars.The number of incidents steadily increased through 2016 when they reached 2,673 for the year,...
How much of the web’s traffic would you estimate to be fake, if you had to guess? The answer to that question might surprise you. According to the 2019 Bad Bot Report published security firm Distil Networks, the answer is just over twenty percent. 20.4...
A major Chinese developer is in hot water with Google from an extensive BuzzFeed investigation which revealed that the company’s apps were abusing user permissions, allowing the company to commit fraud on a massive scale.As a result of BuzzFeed’s findings,...
Microsoft recently confirmed that the login credentials of one of its customer support agents was compromised.This allows unknown third parties to log in and gain access to data contained in an unspecified number of users’ Hotmail and Outlook email accounts. The...
Are you still surfing the web with Internet Explorer? If so, you’re not alone. Four years after Microsoft announced Edge as its successor, the company’s old browser still has a few stubborn holdouts who continue to use it for various...
