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| | | Mozilla Blocks Spy Firm DarkMatter from Firefox Citing ‘Significant Risk’ to Users | | TechCrunch | Firefox maker Mozilla said it will not trust certificates from surveillance maker DarkMatter, ending a months-long effort to be whitelisted by the popular browser. | | Why the IT Director at First Round Capital Calls Altitude “Completely Game Changing” | | BetterCloud Monitor | Altitude, BetterCloud’s annual IT conference, will be held September 23-25 in San Francisco this year. "Altitude is the best place to talk to a community of like-minded thinkers who are going to help you directly with your day-to-day job," says Ryan Donnon, the Director of IT at First Round Capital. According to Ryan, Altitude is "THE community that you need to be in" if you're using any SaaS apps in your IT environment. | | 10 Types of Phishing Attacks and Phishing Scams | | Security Boulevard | Phishing attacks result in significant losses and damages to businesses every year. For Google and Facebook, the losses totaled more than $100 million. Belgium’s Creland Bank handed over more than $75 million to cybercriminals. And the Austrian aerospace parts maker FACC lost $61 million. What’s causing these types of massive losses? Each of these organizations were the victims of different (and costly) types of phishing attacks. | | Microsoft July 2019 Patch Tuesday Fixes Zero-day Exploited by Russian Hackers | | ZDNet | Yesterday, Microsoft published its monthly roll-up of security updates known as Patch Tuesday. This month, the Redmond-based company patched 77 vulnerabilities, including two zero-days—security flaws that were being actively exploited in the wild. |
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| | | How to Set Up Two-Step Authentication on Your Amazon Account | | Lifehacker | Two-factor authentication is one of those things that’s a good idea to set up pretty much everywhere that will allow you to. What you may not realize is that Amazon offers two-factor authentication for accounts on its service, something you definitely want to turn on if you have your credit cards and other info tied to your account. | | How to Disable Dynamic Emails in Gmail | | How-To Geek | Gmail now offers “dynamic emails” that let you complete tasks without leaving your email inbox. These use AMP, just like many mobile websites. If you’d rather stick with traditional non-dynamic emails, here’s how to disable this new feature. |
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