Receive any strange SMS text messages recently? If you live in the US, there’s a small chance you might have received an SMS with the following text in the last few days from someone called ‘j3ws3r on Twitter’: I’m here to warn the masses about SMS email gateways. Please look up how to disable it […]

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there's a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves -- even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. This story is about how crooks increasingly are abusing third-party financial aggregation services like Mint, Plaid, Yodlee, YNAB and others to surveil and drain consumer accounts online.

Hackers know vulnerable systems when they see them, and they also know this: Many government systems are decades old, running Windows 7 and even Windows XP.

What have seven security fixes in FileZilla got to do with 2014's Heartbleed bug?

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Manual steps have been replaced by automation.

From Tin00 malware to the Mirai botnet, distributed-denial-of-service remains a powerful weapon in an attackers' arsenal

By Owais Sultan

One of the diverse critical tools in the human resource department is a job description. It’s one of the paramount tools that aid in an employer’s staffing programs. Job description usually stipulates the duties, responsibilities any relevant skills required, the level of training and education needed for the job. Job descriptions don’t just come into […]

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By Owais Sultan

If you have bought your products from a genuine Microsoft reseller there won't be any installing issues whatsoever.

This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Common installation errors with Microsoft Office & how to avoid them

From NAS targeted by brute force ransomware attacks to the humans who hear your Siri recordings, catch with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.