Ethereum Users Suffer Money Loss Due to Weak Passwords
We can never emphasize enough the importance of strong passwords. Every single day we hear stories about various accounts getting hacked because of the weak passwords that were protecting them. The Ethereum password...
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Apple Launches the 'Sign in with Apple' Feature
Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) opened with a June 3 keynote, which brought about quite a lot of news surrounding the iDevice maker's upcoming software and hardware products. Apple is one of the...
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LandMark White Suffers a Second Data Exposure Incident
It's often difficult to estimate exactly how much a data breach costs. Although some organizations tend to be more transparent than others, information about the direct impact is often left out of the official...
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How to Encrypt an Outlook Email for Privacy Within Seconds
In this day and age, encrypting your emails isn't as paranoid as it may sound. Hackers are everywhere these days. Many email services, like Microsoft Outlook, have an inbuilt encryption feature, which is pretty secure...
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The GandCrab Ransomware Creators Announced Their Retirement, but Poorly Protected MySQL Servers Are Still at Risk
Shortly after its first appearance in early-2018, GandCrab's popularity grew, and it quickly became the most prominent name on the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) market. GandCrab's commercial success was so massive,...
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More Than 42 Million Dating App User Records Exposed by an Unprotected Database
People think that it's the job of vendors and service providers to protect their data from hackers. If we have to be especially pedantic and fastidious about the whole thing, we'd say that the wording isn't completely...
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How to Encrypt a Disk Image on Mac to Protect Private Files
It's always a good idea to store your sensitive data somewhere hackers would have a harder time to reach, like on an external drive or in the cloud. Not just that, though. Even those places can be breached, so it's a...
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Are Passwords in Danger When the Hawkeye Keylogger Attacks?
The HawkEye keylogger has been around for about six years now and despite the fact that some would say it has silly name (for a malicious program), it's not just a simple hacking tool developed by a teenage computer...
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How to Select the Good Crypto/Bitcoin Wallet for Yourself
There's no denying that Bitcoins are a huge hit right now. Everyone and their dog is into cryptocurrency these days. After you initially buy your first bitcoin, you'll figure out that you have to store them somewhere...
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The Nokelock Smart Padlock Fails to Protect Users' Belongings and Passwords
Anyone who has an active interest in technology will tell you that big and small manufacturers the world over are in a race to connect as many everyday objects to the internet as possible. The so-called Internet of...
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A Data Breach Exposed Customers' Payment Information at More Than a Tenth of Checkers & Rally's Fast Food Restaurants
Recently, Checkers Drive In Restaurants, Inc., the company that owns the Checkers and Rally's fast food brands, proudly announced that its chains of drive-in restaurants are featured on Tampa Bay Times' Top Places to...
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How to Hide and View Hidden Files and Folders on Mac and Windows
While openness and transparency may often be the best policy when it comes to other people who share a computer with you, you may find yourself storing files on the said computer that you just don't want other people...
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How to Report Phishing Emails to Apple
Phishing scams are constantly on the rise, and they will remain to be a serious problem for us in the foreseeable future. The best way to protect ourselves is to stay alert so we don't fall prey to these nasty scams....
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Can Police Officers Legally Force People to Provide Their Passwords or Unlock Their Devices?
In January, The Tampa Bay Times wrote about Taphonie Prince, a Florida-born suspected armed robber who was given a prison sentence not because law enforcement managed to prove that he had stolen something, but because...
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How to Reset Your TSC TPAD Password
The TSC created the Teacher Performance Appraisal and Development (TPAD) system to make sure that teachers are capable of teaching our children correctly. Also, this practice ensures that teachers will be under...
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Flipboard Resets Its Users' Passwords After Discovering That Hackers Had Access to Its Databases for More Than Nine Months
For those of you who don't know, Flipboard is a news aggregator service that has more than 100 million users and collects articles from around 11 thousand websites. On April 23, its engineers noticed unusual activity...
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Scammers Swindled Money out of 85,000 Banking Customers in the UK Last Year
How much trouble can a harmless tweet get you in? As it turns out, quite a lot. In fact, it can turn you into a target for criminals who'll try to steal thousands from you. UK's The Guardian recently told the story of...
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How to Encrypt Your Emails in Apple Mail on Mac
Why should I bother encrypting my emails? I'm sure you've heard about the newest WikiLeaks info that hit the Internet, namely Vault 7. As it happens and to nobody's great surprise, the CIA has an entire arsenal built...
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