Chipotle Breach Gives Burrito Lovers Another Unappetizing Incident
Burrito lovers just can’t catch a break. The restaurant chain, Chipotle Mexican Grill has once again made the news for another...
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Two Well-Known Companies Try to Steal From You
There are a couple of recently sighted phishing emails making rounds. Both are phishing and using names of well-known companies...
InterContinental Hotels Group Releases More Information on 2016 Breach
In December, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) reported that it was investigating a possible data breach at some of their...
Locky Ransomware Reappears After Staying Out of the Limelight for a Few Months
The ransomware Locky has been out of the limelight for a few months after making a big bang throughout 2016. Last year, it...
Poll Finds Americans to Take Big Digital Risks; Guidelines to Drive the Internet Highway Safely
Americans are risk takers. Digital risk takers, that is. That’s what a survey by OpenPoll found when it asked 2,000 Americans...
Security Solutions Fail to Detect Attacks in Fourth Quarter of 2016
The network security company, Watchguard released a report for the fourth quarter of 2016 and the results were not pretty. There...
Free Travel Coming Your Way Via Airlines; Or Is It Really?
In response to a warning from Delta Airlines, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued an alert recently...
Student Loan Applicants Victims of Tax Fraud from Breached IRS Data Recovery Tool
The New York Times recently reported a data breach of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) websites that taxpayers can use to auto...
Millions of University Email Addresses Found For Sale on the Dark Web
Researchers have found millions of stolen email addresses from 300 of the largest universities throughout the U.S. They are...
Experts Doubt Claims by Turkish Hackers Trying to Extort Money From Apple
A Turkish Crime Family claims to have millions of iCloud.com, me.com, and mac.com email addresses and login credentials and is...
Phone Fraud is Real and Raking in Millions
While social engineering comes in many forms, over the past two years phone fraud has been on a steady rise with some...
Nintendo Switch Emulator Definitely Ain't the Real Thing
There’s a song “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” and certainly in the case of the new Nintendo Switch Game console, it tends...