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What Caused The Major Facebook Outage?

What Caused The Major Facebook Outage?

October 23, 2021BlogNo Comments »

If you use Facebook then you are no doubt aware that recently the company experienced an outage that took the site offline for several hours. Many people initially assumed that the company had been hacked. However as the outage continued there were none of the telltale signs of an attack. The outage impacted all of Facebook's tools and not just...

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Twitch Hack Was Much Bigger Than Expected

Twitch Hack Was Much Bigger Than Expected

October 22, 2021BlogNo Comments »

Are you a gamer or do you broadcast on Twitch for some other reason? If so be aware that the platform was recently hacked and the amount of information the attackers made off with is much more substantial than was originally estimated. Some of the data has now been leaked by an anonymous user on 4Chan. The share included a...

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Some AMD Chips Aren’t Performing Well With Windows 11

Some AMD Chips Aren’t Performing Well With Windows 11

October 21, 2021BlogNo Comments »

Do you have a computer powered by an AMD chipset? Are you excited to upgrade to Windows 11? If you answered yes to both of those questions you should know that at present some AMD processors are struggling to run Windows 11 smoothly. In fact a few processors have seen performance drops of up to 15 percent which is significant...

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Google Forcing Accounts To Use Two Factor Authentication

Google Forcing Accounts To Use Two Factor Authentication

October 20, 2021BlogNo Comments »

Google recently announced that they're planning to auto-enroll some 150 million user accounts into two factor authentication (2FA). The company prefers the term two-step verification (2SV). The company had this to say about the planned move: "...because we know the best way to keep our users safe is to turn on our security protections by default, we have started to...

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New Firefox Browser Feature Appears To Be Adware

New Firefox Browser Feature Appears To Be Adware

October 19, 2021BlogNo Comments »

With the release of Firefox 92 back in September Mozilla made a change that may well doom the browser. If you use Firefox you have probably already noticed it. When you start typing an address you will find sponsored Firefox contextual suggestions in a drop-down list. In simplest terms companies pay a premium to get put on the short list...

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Hackers Can Take Control Of Some Electronic Diabetic Devices

Hackers Can Take Control Of Some Electronic Diabetic Devices

October 18, 2021BlogNo Comments »

Medical equipment provider Medtronic has issued an urgent recall order for insulin pump controllers belonging to their "MiniMed Paradigm" family. The company cited serious cyber security risks as the reason for the recall. The models in question are MMT-500 and MMT-503 which is used in conjunction with the Medtronic MiniMed 508 pump. Overall more than 31,000 of these devices were...

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New Dangerous Android Malware Is Infecting Millions

New Dangerous Android Malware Is Infecting Millions

October 16, 2021BlogNo Comments »

Researchers from Zimperium zLabs have detected a nasty, dangerous, global malware campaign that has managed to infect more than 10 million Android devices from around the world in more than 70 different countries. As with most malware campaigns this one relies on social engineering to spread. The first stage of the infection process is that the hackers have to get...

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Hackers Find Security Vulnerability With Apple Pay

Hackers Find Security Vulnerability With Apple Pay

October 14, 2021BlogNo Comments »

Do you have an iPhone? Do you make use of the Apple Pay service? If so there is a security issue you need to be aware of. Researchers have discovered a means by which fraudulent payments can be made from a locked iPhone. Two conditions must be true for the flaw to be exploited. The user must have a Visa...

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Google Is The Most Popular Search Result On Bing

Google Is The Most Popular Search Result On Bing

October 13, 2021BlogNo Comments »

It's good to be the King and in the world of search Google is the undisputed King. That fact has made the tech giant something of a target however. Google has been sued repeatedly and investigated by both the US Congress and the EU's General Court owing to its dominant position in the realm of search. Many of the court...

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