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Staples May Have Exposed Some Of Its Customer Data

Eugene IT Services2021-04-27T18:54:05-07:00If you're a customer of US retail chain Staples, you may have recently received a notification from the company regarding a problem with their Order Tracking system. According to information in the notification, the data was left exposed due to insufficient protection of the data stream accessed when a customer clicked to review their current and past orders. The company stressed that to this point, there is no evidence that any exposed data has been accessed by third parties and no...

Adobe Updates Some Of Their Products Due To Critical Issues

Eugene IT Services2021-04-27T18:54:05-07:00 Adobe continues to have problems associated with JavaScript. As a consequence, they have released new patches for Experience Manager, InDesign, and Framemaker. Of these, the patch for Experience Manager is the largest, and addresses a total of five critical vulnerabilities, tracked as: CVE-2020-9732 CVE-2020-9734 CVE-2020-9740 CVE-2020-9741 CVE-2020-9742 Each of these bugs, can, if left unpatched, lead to arbitrary JavaScript execution in the browser. In addition, the latest Experience Manager patch addresses six other issues deemed serious, including one that is described as an...

Google Working To Help Warn Users Of Earthquakes

Eugene IT Services2021-04-27T18:54:05-07:00 Unless you live within a couple hundred miles of the town of Sparta, NC, you may not be aware of the fact that recently, a 5.1 earthquake struck the area. It damaged a few homes and rumbles could be felt as far away as north Georgia and parts of Virginia. It is doubtful that the earthquake in North Carolina was the inciting event that prompted Google to announce a new earthquake detection and alert system on Android devices, but it is...

Toshiba Will No Longer Make Laptops

Eugene IT Services2021-04-27T18:54:05-07:00 For the past three decades, Toshiba has been a major player in the laptop market. Toshiba released its first laptop in 1985. Their famous T1100, which was sold in Europe, was one of the first laptops to make use of floppy disks. Based on their success with that model, they quickly expanded their operation and began selling laptops in the US and Japan. Recently though, the Japanese powerhouse has reported that they're exiting the laptop business. According to a recent announcement by...

Windows 10 Update Gives Graphics Cards Users More Control

Eugene IT Services2021-04-27T18:54:05-07:00 Does your PC have more than one graphics card in it? If so, and you're a Windows 10 user, there's good news. Microsoft recently announced some coming changes to Windows 10 that will give users with multiple GPU's more control over how their cards are used when running applications. Currently, Windows makes the decision about which card to use on the fly, but in a preview of Build 20190, under settings  Display  Graphics Settings there is a new dropdown that allows users to set...

New Charging Cables Could Hack Your Devices

Eugene IT Services2021-04-27T18:54:05-07:00 A security researcher known as "_MG_" on Twitter has invented a modified Apple Lightning cable that could allow a hacker to remotely access any Mac computer using them.  He demonstrated his new invention, dubbed the "OM.G Cable" at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas recently. The Lightning Cable is used by Apple owners to charge their devices and sync data. The OM.G cable is indistinguishable from a legitimate Lightning Cable. According to tests conducted by Motherboard, it allows...

New Netflix Payment Phishing Emails Appear Legitimate

Eugene IT Services2021-04-27T18:54:05-07:00 Do you have a Netflix account? If so, you're certainly not alone. Since the start of the pandemic, the company has experienced unprecedented growth and is now the video streaming service of choice for tens of millions. If you're one of those, be aware that an as yet unknown group of hackers has developed an exceptionally convincing-looking phishing scam designed to harvest Netflix payment information. The attack begins just like many do, with the receipt of an email explaining that...

Billions Of Breached User Credentials Are Available For Purchase

Eugene IT Services2021-04-27T18:54:05-07:00 On a regular basis, we see headlines talking about how this or that company got hacked and X number of employee or customer logins got exposed. However, since those headlines happen in isolation, it's easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. A trip to the Dark Web will reveal just how big of a problem the world faces. If you dare venture into those waters, you'll find literally billions of user accounts for sale. In fact, by scouring various...

Microsoft Will Add Plagiarism Checker To Word Program

Eugene IT Services2021-04-27T18:54:05-07:00Microsoft to add Plagiarism Checker to Microsoft Word Recently, Microsoft announced a small but important improvement to one of its signature products, Microsoft Word. The company is planning to roll out a plagiarism checking tool bundled with a virtual writing assistant powered by the company's increasingly powerful AI/Machine Learning code. If you're interested in trying it out, it's currently available to customers using Microsoft 365 EDU A3 and A5. The plan is to make it available to all Microsoft 365 customers beginning...

If 123456 Is Your Password, Change It Immediately

Eugene IT Services2021-04-27T18:54:05-07:00 You probably aren't familiar with the name Ata Hakcil. He's a computer engineering student who recently conducted one of the largest password security surveys currently available. To conduct his research, he collected a number of username and password "data dumps" from the Dark Web and analyzed the passwords he found there. Hakcil was able to analyze a massive collection of more than a billion passwords, looking for trends and commonalities. IT Security Professionals have long known that password security is an...