Category: Technology News
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Dangerous “SpyLoan” Apps Growing in Android App Store
Dangerous predatory loan applications, known as SpyLoan or fake loan apps, are growing in numbers in the App Store, many with millions of installs. McAfee’s mobile research team, a security software company, has raised an alarm on the growing wave of these predatory loan apps that are disguised as legitimate financial services but trick users…
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Staying Safe When Online Shopping This Black Friday Holiday Season
This year’s Black Friday is expected to reach record spending. This includes Cyber Monday, the online digital version. (Cyber Five, which is the five days of deals between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday, for 2024 is projeced to surpass nearly $40 billion⇗.) It’s a great time to make that needed purchase or replace any electronics…
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Security Bypass Vulnerability in WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin CleanTalk
A security vulnerability was recently discovered in the WordPress plugin Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall plugin by CleanTalk by researchers at Wordfence, a full security plugin for WordPress. The plugin aims to keep spam at bay on WordPress websites, which power many websites on the web, by protecting forms and other features on your websites from…
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Google Releases New Restore Credentials Tool for Simpler Account Restorations on Android
We’ve all been at the point of upgrading a phone. While it is an exciting purchase and time to learn a new device and features, it does come with the haunting task of logging in to each of your apps. Especially if you’ve forgotten your password (a password manager is best recommended to avoid forgetting…
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Bitcoin Reaches New Records, Edges $100k Valuation
The most popular and widely known cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has reached a new record worth today, surpassing $99,000. It is just shy of a $100k valuation as it maintains strong popularity and trading amongst users and investors. Track all markets on TradingView This comes as many are hopeful for a friendlier stance toward cryptocurrency from government,…
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Apple Releases Updates for Zero-Days Affecting iOS, Mac, Vision Pro
Update your iOS, Mac and Vision devices as Apple has released updates to a critical vulnerability affecting different systems and software. They’re tracked as CVE-2024-44308, which presented a flaw in the JavaScriptCore, a framework for Javascript commonly used on websites, and CVE-2024-44309, which was a flaw in WebKit, the open-source web rendering engine that powers…
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Vulnerability in WordPress Really Simple Security Plugin Puts Websites at Risk
A several vulnerability has been discovered in a popular WordPress plugin used by millions of websites. Discovered by Wordfence researchers and dubbed CVE-2024-10924, the critical vulnerability affects the Really Simple Security (also known as Really Simple SSL) plugin. Plugin versions affected are 9.0.0 and 9.1.1.1 and could impact millions of websites using this plugin. The…
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