Photo: Barry Williams for NY Daily News (Getty Images) Citing a supposed spike in crime, New York State and New York City officials have launched a heavy-handed, police-state-flavored push to increase safety in the city’s subway systems. This has included the controversial deployment of National Guard and State Police units into the city’s tunnels and, …
If you’re not already, you should really be using a password manager to help you create, secure, and store strong passwords across your accounts. It also prevents you from using the same password everywhere, which would seriously compromise you if there’s ever a breach. Seeing as how often security and data breaches happen, staying protected …
Tri-Cities, WA- Safer Internet Day is next week which focuses on protecting youth online. The Southeast Regional Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, or SER-ICAC, works to prosecute individuals who commit crimes against children. In 2022 in the Tri-Cities region alone, the task force received 15 cyber tips, meaning illegal activity on a device was …
Comcast Comcast, alongside several other big corporations, has recently suffered a devastating data breach. According to reports, it’s possible that hackers got their hands on the data of up to 36 million Comcast Xfinity customers, meaning the company’s cable television and internet department. Although the company is pretty tight-lipped about it, the data breach occurred …
Sora Shimazaki / Pexels With the constant rise of cybersecurity threats, it is becoming increasingly clear that dangerous malware lurks in every corner. In a ironic twist, malware has now infiltrated PowerPoint presentations disguised as helpful guides for protecting against phishing attacks. However, the true danger lies in the fact that this malware can potentially …
New methods of attack by hackers continue to emerge, making it increasingly difficult to trust even reputable sources. A recent example is a ransomware attack known as SophosEncrypt, which impersonates the cybersecurity vendor Sophos. This attack can seize control of your files or even your entire PC, demanding payment for decryption. Initially believed to be …
A security breach in March resulted in MSI losing up to 1.5TB of sensitive data. However, this breach did not only affect MSI. Following the breach, Intel is now investigating a significant leak of Intel Boot Guard keys. The extent of the damage is still uncertain, but the worst-case scenario is that these keys are …
The FBI has disrupted a long-running malware operation that allowed Russian spies to steal sensitive information from various countries. Among the targets are NASA-member governments, prominent journalists and those deemed to be of interest to the Russian government. The court-authorized operation named MEDUSA has disrupted a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by a sophisticated …