“According to the statement issued by Jim Holthouser, Executive Vice President of Global Brands, “unauthorized malware” was used to gain access to Hilton’s point-of-sale systems resulting in the theft of payment card information of some of its guests. The attacks are said to have occurred between November 18 to December 5, 2014; and April 21…
This isn’t a good thing, at all. I don’t think it’s just teens either. Advertising has become so prevalent on the web, and so embedded, that the difference between actual “news” and an ad is pretty blurred. That means that savvy marketers could influence public opinion with stories that seem to be news, but truly…
Yes, you should probably do this. If you’ve stored a credit card with Amazon, now that they are supporting two factor authentication, you need to enable it. Just follow the directions in the link below to have Amazon verify your login with a text message to your phone. I will be! It’s time to secure…
“The 19,000 hashes have been “given to five global internet companies [Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo], who had volunteered to conduct a robust test on the list through their systems during the implementation period.” The hashes, created during the implementation stage, were sourced from images forensically captured on the Home Office Child Abuse Image…
“Following the installation of the November 10 2015 updates, users may have problems with Outlook crashing when they view HTML messages. Windows 7 64-bit is definitely affected; other versions of Windows may be affected as well. “ Haven’t tried the fix yet, but I am definitely seeing Outlook crash since the updates installed last night…
From a British study on the dangers of kids being approached by dangerous people online, I noticed this little nugget: “The report, called Digital Dangers, found that nearly half of young people living at home say their parents only know some of their online activities. And one in ten said their parents knew nothing about…