Top Apps are Being Spoofed to Spread Malware
It’s been discovered that popular apps like Zoom, Microsoft Edge, Steam, and WhatsApp are being impersonated and greasing the skids for a virus/malware attack through social media outlets. One popular method of entry is to impersonate a software installation or upgrade app, which does nothing other than install malware in your operating system. Even major web browsing applications like Chrome, Firefox and Brave are targeted. See ‘VirusTotal Reveals Most Impersonated Software in Malware Attacks‘ (The Hacker News) for details.
Amazon Extends It’s Reach Into Every Aspect of Your Daily Life
The lengths data mining companies will go to know no limits. With the acquisition of iRobot, the one-time online bookseller will now be plotting your home’s interior and noting high-traffic areas among other things. As this stinging piece in Vice Magazine points out (“Amazon Buys Roomba Company, Will Now Map Inside of Your House“) — “even if you want to avoid it, it’s become impossible for Amazon to not touch some portion of your life.” From your medical records, to web surfing tendencies to samples of your voice (thanks to Alexa), Amazon is profiling you. Hopefully it’s just to sell you products, but that’s hard to buy in today’s broken society.
Quick Tech Tips
- How to find and remove advanced spyware from your iOS, Android phone (ZDnet.com)
- Internet of Things (IoT) Security: Challenges and Best Practices (apriorit.com)
- The Top10 E-commerce Security Threats of 2022 (getsatra.com)
What is the WordPress 6.0.1 update about?
From time to time, WordPress will release a version update that does not introduce new features, but merely fixes issues from a previous release. These are ‘maintenance updates’, which are beneficial to improving your website’s overall performance. For the non-technical WordPress enthusiast, most of the written details of these updates will make your head explode as they are programming code-related, and not intended for ‘civilian’ consumption. Your only job is update your WordPress installation and reap the benefits of what dozens of WordPress developers have contributed their time, passion and energy to.
RELATED: How do I update WordPress manually?
Easy, peasy. Just log in to the admin area of your WordPress site and mouse over ‘Dashboard’ at the top of the sidebar on the left. A submenu will fly out with a tab for ‘Updates’. If anything needs updating (themes or plugins), you’ll see a red circle with the number of items needing attention. Click on that, a page will load showing you everything that an update is available for, and just follow the prompts from there.
WHAT? : I can have these updates done automatically?
Yes you can. Simply enable ‘Auto Update’ on the main Plugins page. You can set auto updates individually or for all active plugins.
