How to Change or Disable Windows 10 Password Hint
When setting up a Windows user account through the Windows 10 Settings, both the password and the Password Hint are fields that you are required to fill in order to complete the process. While it is understandable... Read more
How to Fix FTP 530 Login Authentication Error
FTP servers fulfill the protocol where data, files, and folders are exchanged. These servers are primarily used by FTP clients or webmasters, which work with transferring files into the FTP servers. Sometimes the... Read more
How to Log out of Instagram on All Devices
Instagram managed to reach the 1 billion monthly active user mark back in 2018, and there's no sign of the social media giant's growth stopping any time soon. More than 500 million active users use the picture-sharing... Read more
These Are the 6 Pieces of Data You Do NOT Want to Be Stolen by Cybercriminals
Nowadays, cybercriminals are pretty much after any kind of data they can get their hands on. That means that they are looking for full names, usernames, pets’ names, lists of friends, colleagues, and family members,... Read more
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office Reports a 200% Increase in SIM-Jacking Attacks
Even though researchers have noticed a significant increase in sim-jacking or sim-swapping attacks in the United Kingdom, such attacks still occur very rarely compared to, for example, data breaches. Not to mention, a... Read more
Cybercrooks Employ Google Forms to Extract Login Credentials From Unsuspecting Office 365 Users
Barring a few exceptions, attacking an organization has the potential to be much more profitable than attacking a home user. Business enterprises have a lot more to lose. They process company and customer data that... Read more
A Decade's Worth of Private User Data Has Been Exposed by Rallyhood
When Zack Whittaker from TechCrunch got in touch with Rallyhood to talk about a misconfigured S3 bucket that exposed quite a lot of user data, he was initially told that the leaky database was used for testing... Read more
Nedbank Reports a Data Breach That Could Have Affected 1.7 Million Clients
In early February, IT experts working for Nedbank, one of South Africa's 'big four' commercial banks, learned that some of their customers might have been affected by a data breach. Within a week, they had thoroughly... Read more
Hackers Have Compromised a DoD Agency in Charge of Secure White House Communications
Several years ago, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) suffered a data breach that exposed millions of records that belonged to government employees. It was a pretty serious attack, and in its wake, another... Read more
Would Hackers Go After Your Pets? Unfortunately, They Have That Option
If you have a pet, you know what pantry items should be out of reach. You know not to leave them in a car on a sunny day. You know that doors and windows need to be closed to keep them inside. You know when their... Read more
MEMS Vulnerability Makes It Possible to Hijack Voice Assistants, Including Alexa, Google Home, or Siri
Virtual assistants were created to perform various tasks to make our lives easier. Over the years, they have changed a lot, and, today, we even have voice assistants like Alexa and Siri that can control several smart... Read more
How Your Passwords Get Hacked
Nowadays, everything on the internet requires you to type in a password. Since most users avail themselves of a variety of different services, it can be tough to keep track of all of the login details for each and... Read more
