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The past year has put digital identity challenges, security and passwords under scrutiny. This report explains why passwordless is the future. Passwords are deeply ingrainetd in all aspects of our digital reality. A year ago, NordPass estimated that t… Continue reading Going Passwordless: Cybersecurity for the New Decade
Pop-ups and browser lockers have given way to irritating and potentially destructive push notifications For many of us, when we hear the word “malware,” the first thing that comes to mind would be visions of emptied bank accounts, encrypte… Continue reading Browser Push Notifications: Useful Feature Exploited by Deceptive Marketers
Maybe we should have seen this one coming. Scammers are trying to dupe smartphone owners into turning over their personal information by clicking on push notifications that look like legitimate messages from well-known companies. The messages actually direct recipients to phishing pages, where they’ll be asked to enter their credentials, according to a new scam technique the mobile security company Lookout has detected in recent months. Researchers are still examining the phishing technique, says David Richardson, senior director of product management at Lookout, but he says it’s clear hackers are taking advantage of people’s willingness to trust their mobile devices. Lookout detected one phishing campaign in which attackers created what appeared to be a Chrome notification alerting them to a missed call. They also pointed to an example of how hackers could illicitly use logos from trustworthy companies like Slack to make a push notification look legitimate. Still have to […]
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Mozilla doesn’t yet know how to solve the problem of website push notification spam in the Firefox browser, but it’s working on it. Continue reading Firefox draws battle lines against push notification spam
It’s U2 déjà vu: Apple’s yet again shoving stuff at users without their say-so. This time, it’s via the TV app, to some iOS users. Continue reading Apple spams users with unwanted ‘Carpool Karaoke’ push notifications
Were you one of the dozens of people who got a bizarre Twitter message yesterday? It’s OK. It wasn’t a disturbance in the Matrix. Continue reading Weirdo Twitter messages were a glitch, not a hack
Notifications are no longer used to notify you of anything—they’re used by apps to beg for attention. Continue reading Turn Off Push Notifications
This article has been created to help explain what is the Agefeed.com notifications virus which displays different pop-ups on the victims’ computers after installed. A new potentially unwanted program in association with the Agefeed.com domain ha… Continue reading Agefeed.com (Pushstat.com) Notifications “Virus” – How to Remove It
The latest version of Firefox, version 59, contains a setting designed to let users control the bane of intrusive push notification requests. Continue reading Firefox makes it easy to banish push notifications