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Posted: September 7, 2022 by Jovi Umawing Last week, we gave you some tips on how you can set up a new iPhone for your child to use as they start this school year. Today, we’ll look at doing the same for Android phones. Setting up an Android isn’t very different from setting up an iPhone as both platforms follow a similar logic to making devices child-friendly. […]
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Posted: September 6, 2022 by Pieter Arntz QNAP (Quality Network Appliance Provider) has warned users to update Photo Station to the latest available version. The warning comes after QNAP detected that cybercriminals known as DeadBolt have been exploiting a Photo Station vulnerability in order to encrypt QNAP NAS systems that are directly connected to the internet. QNAP produces NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices,
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Posted: August 29, 2022 by Pieter Arntz Earlier this month, messaging service Twilio got compromised by a sophisticated social engineering attack. After deploying phishing attacks against company employees, hackers were able to access user data, but now it seems that the impact of the hack was more elaborate than originally assumed. In a first update, Twilio, a cloud-based communication platform provider, revealed
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Posted: September 6, 2022 by Christopher Boyd We mostly hear about bogus advertising and offers via compromised accounts on Instagram or Facebook. Strict advertising rules on social media involve making it clear that someone is promoting an ad or offering up a risky venture. However, sometimes things go wrong on other platforms like YouTube. The immediacy of video
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Posted: September 6, 2022 by Jovi Umawing Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), the lead regulator in Europe for Meta and other tech giants, has slapped Instagram with a fine of €405M—roughly equivalent to $402M—following an investigation on how the company handled children’s data. In the investigation that started in 2020, the DPC found Instagram had allowed children between the ages
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Posted: September 6, 2022 by Christopher Boyd Everyone loves a good campfire story prone to exaggeration. However, when told online it’s not quite got the same effect. Long ago, sites like Myspace would play host to very certain types of messages. “Don’t open this post from Johnny Cyberhack, or your account will be stolen and your C drive
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Posted: September 5, 2022 by Christopher Boyd Another Instagram phish is doing the rounds, and will appeal to a wide variety of platform users. Bleeping Computer reports that verified status is once again being dangled as bait. The “importance” of being verified Being verified gives the impression of status, or importance, on social media platforms. Often, verification is more
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Posted: September 5, 2022 by Jovi Umawing On Friday, Google announced the release of a new version of its Chrome browser that includes a security fix for a zero-day tracked as CVE-2022-3075. As with previous announcements, technical details about the vulnerability won’t be released until a certain number of Chrome users have already applied the patch. Google is urging its Windows,
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One of the biggest challenges that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face is how to use their limited resources most effectively. Every decision, from what products or services to offer to how to market and sell them, has to be made to protect their bottom line. SMBs also face several challenges in obtaining reliable IT
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Posted: August 23, 2022 by Pieter Arntz In September 2021 we told you about insecure Hikvision security cameras that were ready to be taken over remotely. However, according to a whitepaper published by CYFIRMA, tens of thousands of systems used by 2,300 organizations across 100 countries have still not applied the security update, and are therefore vulnerable to exploitation. The vulnerability According to the
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