Microsoft and Delta are not getting along. Following last month’s giant CrowdStrike outage, Delta struggled to get its flight schedules back to normal, and says the issue cost the airline $500 million. CrowdStrike objected to the criticisms, saying Delta failed to accept “offers of help” to recover from the outage. One of those sources of help appears to be Microsoft, …
It’s common cybersecurity advice to use a strong and unique password for each of your accounts. But keeping tabs on those many passwords is impossible if you try to keep them all memorized. While you might be tempted to jot them all down in a Word document, there’s a much better method we all should be using: password managers. What …
In the very recent past, if you wanted to remove the background of a picture, you had to master expensive editing software like Photoshop. No longer: Your iPhone is perfectly capable of isolating a subject in any of your photos, with zero technical knowledge necessary. You just need to know which options to choose. There are a couple ways you …
If you read enough news stories about hackers and cyberattacks, you probably notice one term popping up again and again: “the dark web.” Reports make the dark web sound like a lawless corner of the internet, and, in many ways, it is. But, at the same time, it’s also a very misunderstood part of the web. The different layers of …
No one wants to learn their passwords were found in hack. Unfortunately, it’s all too common of an event: Bad actors target companies and organizations, and eventually break through, stealing, among many things, login credentials. If yours are among the bunch, it’s serious. That said, there are still plenty of actions you can take to protect yourself in such a …
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google is in “advanced talks” to acquire Wiz, a cybersecurity firm, for $23 billion. Wiz is not a legacy company in this space: The startup is only four years old, but has been growing quickly ever since. In May, the company was worth $12 billion. Google reportedly wants to buy it for nearly double …