Taylor Swift’s Twitter + Instragram Hacked
The British newspaper The Mirror is reporting that Taylor Swift’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were hacked. The article is quoted by ESET in their We Live Security Blog – which goes on to report that Taylor Swift’s Twitter account is the 4th most...Chinese hackers installed malware on Canadian National Research Council computers
CBC.ca reports that the Canadian National Research Council, a government department Council which carries out advanced research in aerospace, health, mining and physics, was compromised by Chinese hackers.
USPS Hacked – 800,000 employee details + customer info compromised
In a Reuters article today we learned that the US Postal Service (USPS) was victim of a cyber attack that may have compromised the personal data of more than 800,000 employees, as well as customers who contacted their call center between January and August of 2014.
Employee data includes names, date of birth, social security numbers, addresses, employee state and end dates, as well as emergency contact information.
Top 5 Facebook scams this week…
Facebook is what it is, there simply is no way to change the colors of your profile or change the theme. Stay away from such messages if you want to avoid getting your PC infected with malware. As an additional reminder, do not click on anything to do with Ebola, they are now offering free toolbars that will warn you when Ebola pops up in your town, but it’s malware being installed instead.