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   Just Because you have a Backup...   When faced with a ransomware attack the current wisdom is if your computer gets infected and it encrypts your files you have three basic options: Pay the ransom Restore from a backup Cut your losses and nuke the computer Of those three choices, backup is obviously your best option. Assuming everything goes well, you’ll get your data back and you can get back to work knowing you dodged a bullet. But remember, just because you have backup in...

   More Bad News For OnePlus Phone Users   OnePlus phones have been getting plenty of bad press lately, thanks to malicious apps found to be factory-installed on a percentage of the devices, along with some intrusive data collection features the manufacturer has installed. As it turns out, though, the story gets worse. Recently, a security researcher going by the alias "Elliot Alderson" discovered a factory-installed application called "Engineering Mode" that can perform a...

   Be Careful Of Downloads – Google Play Store Sees Malware Increase   Google's Play Store is under siege. In recent month, there has been a sharp spike in malware campaigns launched against the store, with a shocking number of poisoned apps slipping past Google's robust system of checks designed to prevent, or at least minimize such occurrences. The spike in poisoned apps has been reported by three different security companies: Dr. Web, McAfee and Malwarebytes. According to the...

   Black Friday Brings Major Increase In Fraud   Retailers are gearing up for the year's busiest shopping weekend, which runs from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, but another group is also gearing up. Scammers. Security experts are warning that retailers should brace for impact because the best estimates are that there could be as many as fifty million fraud-based attacks between those spectacularly busy shopping days. The estimate is higher than it's ever been, and is driven in...

   Apple Is On Track To Become A Trillion Dollar Company   Recently, Apple's stock closed at $175.88, giving it a market valuation slightly above $900 billion. A Drexel Hamilton analyst named Brian White predicts that over the course of the next twelve months, the company's stock could be trading as high as $235 per share, and at that price, Apple's market valuation would be over one trillion dollars, making it the only trillion-dollar company on the planet. "With a market cap...

   Apple’s New Face ID May Have Been Compromised   Tech companies of all shapes and sizes have been on the hunt for the "Holy Grail" of security features since before the rise of the internet. So far, a number of strategies have been developed, but none have proved to be successful. Hackers have found ways around each and every one to date. Apple recently made another attempt when they released their new iPhone X, complete with a new "ultra-secure" Face ID security feature,...