Data breach victims are likely to someday become victims of fraud. Of the $16 billion in total fraud loss for 2016, $8.3 billion came from victims who had experienced a breach in the past 12 months and $12 billion arose… Continue Reading
By: George Slefo In an attempt to dramatically upset the established order of cellphone carriers in the United States, Virgin Mobile has struck a deal with Apple to make consumers an offer that seems too good to be true: one… Continue Reading
By: Kate Holton Imagination Technologies, the British firm that lost 70 percent of its value after being ditched by its biggest customer Apple, put itself up for sale on Thursday in a disappointing end to a once-great European tech success… Continue Reading
By: Ron Miller When Dropbox announced it was leaving AWS last year and bringing the bulk of the operation in-house, you had to figure it was working on a significant network expansion, and today the company announced a massive global… Continue Reading
By: Norman Guadagno In addition to the survey results provided in Wombat’s new “State of the Phish” report, the company also analyzed the results of millions of simulated phishing attacks sent through its platform to customers. The simulated phishing attacks… Continue Reading
By: Steve Zurier A new study of more than 200 business owners, CEOs, executives, and knowledge workers by the Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network found that while most are concerned about cyberattack-borne breaches of critical documents, the top concern by… Continue Reading
By: Paul Cucu On April 11, Vista will reach end of life. And Microsoft Office 2007 will share the same fate. Don’t worry, you can keep using your Vista PC if you want. Microsoft won’t press a kill switch to… Continue Reading
By: Jon Brodkin Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year. Canonical is also ending development of… Continue Reading
By: Jeanne Jocson and Jennifer Gumban A new addition to the list of Linux threats is the recently detected Linux ARM malware ELF_IMEIJ.A (detected by Trend Micro as ELF_IMEIJ.A). The threat exploits a vulnerability in devices from AVTech, a surveillance… Continue Reading
By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols When Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service at Amazon’s US-EAST-1 data centers went down, things went bad. Very, very bad. How bad? Popular sites such as Quora, Business Insider, Netflix, Reddit and Slack either crashed entirely or… Continue Reading