The Ask Toolbar is possibly one of the most insidious software addons in existence. Most people find they have the Ask Toolbar and aren’t even really sure how it happened. Now that Ask has been exploited it’s even more important to get rid of it. Most people acquire the Ask Toolbar as an addon to…
Read moreIt’s likely about to be a very bad day for three medical facilities and 655,000 patients whose information has been put up for sale on the TheRealDeal market, a marketplace, located on TOR, that specializes in selling numerous illegal items. In an interview from 2015 with the market’s admin, “…basically we consist of 4 partners who…
Read moreThis case is particularly unfortunate as it represents both the intense desires entities have for our personal information and likely the more concerning problem of lax security protocols. This instance revolves around a Voter database of approximately 154 million records. As anyone who does genealogy knows, voter databases are considered public records and offer a great…
Read moreFacebook is currently experiencing their second outage in a week. The first outage took place on September 24, 2015; Facebook was back up by early afternoon, but no explanation was provided to users about the cause. Now users are experiencing a second outage that is also affecting Facebook’s Platform Status page, so no information on…
Read moreHave you been locked out of an account due to entering the wrong password too many times? That was rhetorical; unless your password is “password” (and it better not be) everyone has managed to lock themselves out. Even someone using “password” can manage it if they don’t realize Caps Lock is on. But here’s the…
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