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London Council Asked For Customer Bank Details By Email
London Council Sent Emails Demanding Customers Bank Details By Return I’d like to think that these days most people are pretty savvy that if you receive an e-mail asking you for your bank details its usually a scam. There are, after all, a lot of people out there who would…
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Gmail Sees First Overhaul In Nearly 5 Years
Google announced first Gmail overhaul in nearly 5 years I think it’s pretty safe to say that the vast majority of us have some form of a free e-mail account. With the major service providers these days, it will most likely either be Googles Gmail or Microsoft Hotmail. In recent…
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Bomb Threats At UK Schools Revealed As Minecraft Server Feud
Bomb Threats At UK Schools Turns Out To Be Based on a Minecraft Feud In the world of online gaming, I’m sure that many of us have gotten into an argument with someone. Be it because of their camping or general play style. One such feud, however, escalated to the…
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Microsoft Confirms Outlook E-mail Issues
You (may not) have mail! Since Monday, a growing number of reports has suggested that not all is well at Microsoft’s e-mail service, Outlook. The major issue with the service is that it hasn’t been entirely clear about not working. Users have reported sending e-mails and them simply squatting in…
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Gmail Pledges to Stop Reading your E-mails
Isn’t it funny? You might be having a peruse of CDs on Amazon. You might be considering the purchase of a car on Autotrader. Maybe even something for the partner from Anne Summers (we do not judge here). Following this, you might decide to do something completely different and then BOOM,…
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The Evolving Threat of Ransomware and How it Works
With Ransomware on the increase, we look to help explain what Ransomware is and what you can do to avoid becoming its next victim in a significantly growing volume of those affected. Whilst some can be a mild irritant as we reported in an article last week, the vast majority of…
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for US Government
In a staggering revelation today, a new report has surfaced regarding the struggling tech firm Yahoo. According to the revelations by former employees, in 2015, the company built a custom software program to scan all of their user emails. More critically, the move was done at the behest of a classified…
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Yahoo Data Breach Compromises Over 500 Million Accounts
Earlier in the week, reports had begun circling about a rumoured Yahoo data breach. Now Yahoo Chief Information Security Officer Bob Lord has officially confirmed that the company had been the victim of a state-sponsored hacking operation. Most surprisingly is the breadth of the attack, with over 500 million accounts having their…
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Russia Believes Spies Planted Malware in State Systems
In this day and age, people are constantly fighting to gain access or stop people from accessing their information. Be it your home computer being attacked by ransomware or your countries national security systems experiencing hacks from within or outside, cyber warfare is escalating in a world where a computer…
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Get Alerted by Google When You’re Mentioned Online
The internet is wide and vast, with everything from cute cat memes to your grandma’s “secret family” recipe. With everything online linked to something else and searchable through search engines, what can you do when someone wants to mention you? Google wants to help you keep track of these comments…
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Yahoo Ordered to Explain How It Recovered a Convict’s Deleted Email
When we delete our emails we expect them to be, well, deleted, but there’s an old saying that says “once you put it on the internet, it’s there forever.” It looks like this saying still has some weight in our present days, and even though this particular case doesn’t relate…
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Latest Ransomware Now Hidden Within Javascript
When it comes to viruses Ransomware is particularly nasty. With thousands of users being affected by the latest in cyber crime, it often costs people hundreds to gain access to their family photos and legal documents all thanks to the newest of malware. It would now seem that ransomware creators are…
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We Look at Synology’s NAS and Software at Computex 2016
Synology’s new router looks impressive, but we shouldn’t forget their core area which is NAS units. One of the newest units in their lineup is the DS416play that was presented for the first time here at Computex 2016. The new DiskStation DS416play is an upgraded version of the very popular…
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Ransomware Attacks on Congress Force Them to Ban Yahoo And Gmail
Remember that latest series of malware that everyone keeps talking about, ransomware? It would appear that the US Congress is all too aware of the malware given that as of the 30th April, members of congress are banned from using Yahoo and Gmail thanks to ransomware attacks stemming from the…
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Hacker Selling Over 270 Million Compromised Email Accounts
People rely on online emails for everything from business needs to keeping up with their everyday lives. So when it turns out that a hacker is selling 273.3 million email accounts online, people are naturally worried. The millions of accounts were found online by security expert Alex Holden of Hold…
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