Some things in life, like a tape measure or a level, just seem unneeded. Until, of course, you need a couch for your living room or a picture to hang. The Measure app is available for iPhones and iPad. Here’s what you need to know to get the most out of it, as well as what features you might find handy.
The Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) fined six trading companies a total of $750,000 after hackers gained access to staff email accounts, revealing sensitive personally-identifying information of thousands of customers and clients. The SEC has sanctioned eight entities affiliated with three companies. They include Cetera (Advisor Networks, Investment Services, Financial Specialists, Advisors, and Investment Advisers), Cambridge Investment Research (Investment Research and Investment Research Advisors), and KMS Financial Services.
In a previously unreported trend, cybersecurity experts have identified a new malware family (cyberattack) that is syphoning from their victims’ bandwidth. It is the same way as crypto mining malware attempts to monetize the victims’ CPU cycles. According to recent data from Cisco’s Talos intelligence division, threat actors have begun to abuse internet-sharing programs. They are known as proxyware, such as Honeygain (see their rebuttal at the end of this post), Nanowire, and others.
The breakout of Covid-19, as well as the ensuing rush to remote working, led to a power struggle in the newly constituted decentralized workplace. On the one hand, remote work was convenient and comfortable, but it also posed a threat to network security. Many security professionals turned a blind eye to the fact that in the early days of the epidemic, when companies were primarily concerned with keeping their operations running, personnel abandoned security best practices to do the task as quickly as possible.
Amazon has added a new Alexa function that assures you can hear what the voice assistant is saying even if the TV is on or other people are chatting. The new Adaptive Volume function, according to The Verge, would let Alexa talk louder if it detects a lot of background noise. According to the company, the goal is for you to be able to hear the voice assistant’s replies over the din of your home or office. You won’t be able to test it out if you reside outside of the US just yet, according to The Verge. It’s now only available to US users.
The FTC ( Federal Trade Commission )is attempting to impose its first ban on a “stalkerware” company. They indicate a willingness to tighten down monitoring technologies that reveal individuals’ real-time actions to snoops, hackers, and dangerous persons.
Scammers are recruiting native English speakers in droves to improve the effectiveness of Business Email Compromise (BEC). BEC schemes, like ransomware, may be easy to implement but have the potential to be extremely damaging to a corporation.
Windows Insiders are discovering new ways to personalize the new Windows OS as the beta version of Windows 11 continues to trickle out ahead of the official release on October 5. Microsoft’s decision to add widgets to the home screen and expand the customization options in the start menu is part of the reason behind this. We’ll look at another type of personalization that clients enjoy: Windows themes, in this session. Here are some of our current Windows 11 favorites, along with explanations for why we appreciate them.
The broader picture: Intuit may be trying to diversify and stabilize its portfolio with Mailchimp. TurboTax and, to a lesser extent, QuickBooks are seasonal products with high usage during tax season. Intuit’s other products might benefit from a successful e-mail marketing business and the technology that underpins it.
Your computer’s graphics card is a wonderful tool for gaming and artistic work, but it may GPUs as Trojan horse for malware. Cybercriminals are developing methods to insert malicious malware into your system by exploiting graphics cards and their VRAM. The method is said to have worked during a proof-of-concept attack on AMD, Intel, and Nvidia discrete and integrated GPUs.