Bad news for the good guys. PhishLabs, a company focused on providing phishing defense, has released their first report on phishing trends and they show "a thriving phishing underground." Key findings of the 2016 Phishing Trends & Intelligence Report: Hacking the Human: Spear phishing remains the primary initial attack vector used by APT actors. However, 22 percent … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2016
Dell Security publishes 2016 Annual Threat Report
Dell Security published their Annual Threat Report. It looks back on cybercrime trends of 2015 and emerging risks for 2016. The report uses data collected by SonicWALL's GRID network with feeds from millions of firewalls and tens of millions of endpoints. This year’s report details the top four developing trends in cybercrime: The evolution of exploit kits to stay one … [Read more...]
Get your WordPress site ready for Google’s AMP project
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) was proposed last October by Google to reduce pages to their content so that they load nearly instantaneously. Yesterday, they made the project live for mobile search results. You can see if your site is participating through the Google Search Console site. After selecting your property, under the Search Appearance section on the left-hand … [Read more...]
Facebook Reactions to extend the ‘Like’ button are live
Last October, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the Facebook 'Reactions' as their answer to the frequent request for a 'dislike' button. The test started in different countries and Reactions have now gone live. The reactions include the classic Like button with a new animated look to it and 5 other animated emojis including Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry. From the … [Read more...]
Prevent Microsoft from using your Windows 10 Lock Screen for ads
If you're like me, your Windows 10 lock screen may have made you do a double-take yesterday. When I went to login to my computer, the full screen was an advertisement for Rise of the Tomb Raider on the Windows Store. This doesn't interest me and I would prefer my computer not be used for ads unnecessarily. This feels like a similar approach to Amazon's Kindle with Special … [Read more...]