RSS_Virtulization

As people turn to the Internet for news and answers to tough questions, it only makes sense that it would come to know you better than your closest friends and family. When we go online for answers to personal questions, we’re sharing our deepest secrets with search engines. While some people are happy to share that level of personal information with strangers, some turn to private browsing, or incognito mode, to help protect their personal data.   The thing is, incognito mode doesn’t work…

As people turn to the Internet for news and answers to tough questions, it only makes sense that it would come to know you better than your closest friends and family. When we go online for answers to personal questions, we’re sharing our deepest secrets with search engines. While some people are happy to share that level of personal information with strangers, some turn to private browsing, or incognito mode, to help protect their personal data.   The thing is, incognito mode doesn’t work…

A couple of months ago, it was a fake prescription subscription. Today, it’s a fake streaming service. Either way, you get infected with real malware. Researchers at Proofpoint report that the BazarLoader (which Proofpoint calls BazaLoader) malware crew may email you with a fake notice that your trial “subscription” to a fake streaming service called BravoMovies is about to end — and that you’re about to be charged $39.95 a month. “The entertainment-themed campaign was…

There were over 2300 data breach incidents reported by just 22 of the UK’s police forces in 2020, according to new Freedom of Information data. VPNoverview requested information from the UK’s 45 police forces and received responses from 31. All told, the results revealed a national average of 299 data breaches per police station over the period dating from 2016 to the first four months of 2021. This included a combination of human error —…

Bose has told regulators that a sophisticated ransomware attack back in March led to unauthorized access of personal information on current and former employees. The US audio tech giant told the New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General that it first detected the ransomware back on March 7 2021. However, nearly two months later, on April 29, it found that human resources files were accessed. “The personal information contained in these files include name, Social…