A ransomware attack affecting 22 towns in Texas is believed to have had a single point of origin: a security hole, malware, or other weakness in a common, as yet unnamed, managed services provider.

If you get an email that seems to be from GoDaddy with the subject “Complete required actions”, do not open it, and for goodness sake do not click on the links in it!

Walmart, through its joint venture Walmart Apollo, has filed a patent for a Walmart coin based on blockchain. The new cryptocurrency (“Walcoin”, anyone?), intended to be a stablecoin.

If you run the Wordpress plugin Simple 301 Redirect plugin, or the 301 Redirect addon Bulk Uploader by Webcraftic and Ash Durham, you are in danger of having your site get redirected to a malicious site.

If you have a Canva account, you can be forgiven for not knowing that it was breached, as not all, if any, Canva users got a notification from Canva about the breach, even though more than 136million users had their private information compromised. So you may be wondering how to cancel, deactivate, and delete your Canva account.

Move over kittenfishing, mosting, and paperclipping, the new dating term is Houseplanting. Houseplant dating is basically when you date several people at once, leading to one or more of them not getting ‘watered’.

The Facebook event “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” was put up as a joke. This is the story about how a seemingly innocent joke can turn viral and become fake news. In other words, it is a cautionary tale for us all.

Did you get the “Earnings at risk – You need to fix some ads.txt file issues to avoid severe impact to your revenue” pink stripe of death in your Adsense account (or do you want to know how to remove a domain or site from Adsense)? Read on.

If you receive a phone call from ‘Fraud Risk’ (i.e. the caller I.D. says “Fraud Risk”) don’t answer it! It is either your carrier alerting you that the call is a fraud risk, or it is a scammer spoofing the caller I.D..

Zombie Load, Spectre, and Meltdown are security holes in the processors of many, many personal computers as well as servers, including those in the cloud.

Capital One has revealed that it experienced a massive data breach of the personal data of credit applicants that was stored in the cloud on Amazon.

An international court has held that the operators of websites that display a Facebook ‘Like’ button can be data controllers under GDPR, because they are passing data on to Facebook.

Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has filed a lawsuit against Google, citing election interference because Google has suspended her Google ads (Adwords) account. Tulsi also accuses Google of putting her email into the Google and Gmail spam folders at a higher rate than other candidates. Explanation and full text of the lawsuit here.

The Face app T&Cs provide that they own everything you create with or share through the app. And that they can transfer it all to anywhere they have business – including their headquarters in Russia.

Amazon has pledged to “upskill” up to one-third of its workforce in their Upskilling 2025 program, committing $700 million to training up to 100,000 of its employees so as to not make them redundant as AI and other technology replaces them, instead creating a tech-proficient workforce.