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If you use Gmail as your email provider you probably realize how important it is to prevent hackers from accessing your Gmail account.
Once a hacker is logged into your Gmail account he/she can use it to send SPAM and/or malware to other people in your name, via your account. Not good!
What you might not realize is hackers don’t really need to log into your Gmail account directly in order to use it to send SPAM and malware to other people!
Security firm Kaspersky (the makers of Kaspersky Antivirus products) has just reported that the number of computers infected with Password Stealing Malware was up 60% during the first half 2019.
The vast majority of those infections involve Azorult, an extremely dangerous trojan-type virus that hackers use to steal a wide variety of user files and personal data (including passwords).
Kaspersky also reported that scans with Kaspersky Antivirus found Password Stealing Malware infections on 25% of all computers that are running the software.
A recent discovery by the security firm Sophos is a great reminder that it’s wise to keep a close eye on the games and apps you install on your mobile devices.
Sophos’ researchers have discovered that an Android game called “Scary Granny ZOMBYE Mod: The Horror Game 2019” displays a fake Google logon screen that steals your Google login information.
Have you recently crossed the international border between the United States and Canada?
If so, there’s a chance that hackers could now be in possession of photos of your face and your car’s license plate.
The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Agency has just announced that one of the contractors that supplies facial recognition cameras for use at border crossings has been hacked, and the hack resulted in about 100,000 border-crossers having their photos and license plate numbers stolen.
In case you’re wondering what mischief the hackers can do with that very limited amount of information, the answer is a lot.
Apple’s iPhones and their other iOS-based devices have long had a stellar reputation for carefully guarding the user data contained on those devices.
However, the results of a new study could easily rip that stellar reputation to threads.
According to this recent article by Washington Post Technology Columnist Geoffrey Fowler, the study found that iPhones leak personal information like a sieve via their installed apps, sometimes in direct contradiction of the apps’ own stated privacy policies.