Source: fortune.com
Hundreds of apps are infiltrating the App Store.
Before you input your credit card information into an iPhone app this holiday season, be sure it’s the real thing.
Hundreds of counterfeit retail apps have been discovered in Apple’s App Store, mobile analytics company Branding Brand told The New York Times on Sunday.
Source: Trend Micro
Yahoo has confirmed a massive breach that compromised the personal information of 500 million of its users, affecting account holders of Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Fantasy Sports, and Flickr. The tech giant was quick to issue a plan of action, with Yahoo chief information security officer Bob Lord posting an announcement on Tumblr on September 22. The post outlines the investigation, a protection plan, and security recommendations.
Source: verneharnish.typepad.com
Defrauded $400k -- it was a bad night last night, finding out that Gazelles was cyber-attacked and $400k was cleverly "taken" from our Gazelles bank account, more below, but first...
Why Drucker is Still Relevant -- Hermann Simon, a dear friend of the late Peter Drucker, wrote an insightful piece in HRB this week titled "Why Peter Drucker's Writing Still Feels So Relevant.
VoIP is the funny-sounding phone system that’s been around for over two decades. Though that may seem surprising, it actually makes sense, because that’s about how long the internet has been mainstream, and “Voice over Internet Protocol” needs internet in order to function.
Source: McDonald Hopkins
It is a great convenience to connect (or just charge) your smartphone when traveling in a rental car. But this convenience brings significant risks, as evidenced by a recent warning from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as well as a research paper from George Mason University.
Source: Trend Micro
Cyber scammers are learning that you can trap more flies with honey than with vinegar. In a widely spreading tech support scam, the scammers shift from the usual scare tactics and instead graciously offer to “help” potential victims.
Source: Trend Micro
Emails have become the battleground for the first half of the year in terms of security. It is the number one infection vector that have ushered in 2016’s biggest threats so far—ransomware and business email compromise (BEC). Ransomware infections normally start via email.
Source: Trend Micro
By the end of 2015, Trend Micro predicted that 2016 would be "the year of online extortion." Thanks to the growing number of new ransomware families—and the ensuing rise of ransomware victims—recorded in the first half of the year, the prediction is turning out to be quite an understatement.
As NETiMAGE celebrates 25 years of providing data networking and voice products and services, we'd like to extend our thanks and best wishes to our customers, partners, staff and friends who have helped make this milestone possible.
To say that we have seen tremendous changes in the IT industry over the past 25 years would be an understatement.
Source: Fortune.com
Too few companies follow the simplest techniques, says cybersecurity expert.
The biggest threat to cybersecurity in corporate IT departments isn’t the Chinese government or hackers in Eastern Europe, says the head of one of Silicon Valley’s hottest security-software startups.