Sprouts Farmers Market is the latest corporation to fall victim to a W-2 phishing scam, with the company admitting an employee sent off the tax data for all its workers to an unknown person.
Welcome back to ransomware. This time we are focusing on TeslaCrypt 3.0 with the .mp3 extension. Files encrypted - for example .docx files - will show as document.docx.mp3.
Major technology providers are not the only ones thinking about how to best protect user data. Users, too, are becoming increasingly concerned, and when those users are PhDs and professors at some of the world’s top universities, innovation is spawned.
We are currently engaged in a war to achieve victory over risk. Okay, perhaps "war" is not the right way to describe the status quo. None of us can ever achieve total victory over risk. Any expert will say some risk always persists in any activity we undertake.
A plot to steal up to $1 billion from Bangladesh's central bank by siphoning funds out of its U.S. Federal Reserve account was by and large foiled after a hacker's typo triggered an investigation, Reuters reported.
Let's get ready to ruuuummmmmbbbble! In this corner, we have the Justice Department, the prosecutorial arm of the U.S. government and, in its own words, defender of the people. And, in the other corner, we have the darling of Silicon Valley, a self-billed "true American company," Apple.
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