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Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) A number of prominent U.S. colleges have become the newest, unlucky recipients of a cybersecurity migraine currently affecting dozens of organizations all over the world. Advertisement You may have heard something about Accellion—the global cloud provider whose secure-file transfer product (called FTA) was beset by a hacking campaign back in December. If you haven’t heard about it, you can read a recent run-down of the whole trainwreck here. All you really need to know, though, is that a lot of organizations previously used Accellion’s FTA product to s...

Photo: Philippe Lopez (Getty Images) Another purported casualty of the coronavirus pandemic has surfaced, folks: Amazon brick-and-mortar discount stores. Yep, the e-commerce giant considered opening up permanent retail locations to peddle unsold inventory before the world descended into lockdown, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Advertisement While the fallout from covid-19's spread has shuttered a record number of stores across America and recent consumer surveys suggest that folks are increasingly opting out of shopping in person, as they have been for years now, discount chains are some of th...

Photo: Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images (Getty Images) Now’s the time of year when it pays to be extra wary of pranks and promotions that seem too good to be true. But starting tomorrow, yes, on April 1, Verizon has some big discounts on phones and trade-ins for broken devices that are totally legit. Advertisement Verizon said new customers can get up to $1,000 off of a new 5G phone, depending on the device you’re trading in, which is enough to make all but the most expensive flagship devices basically free. Discounts for existing Verizon customers upgrading to a new unlimited plan (Do ...

Look out, n00bs. Hackers are apparently deploying fake game “cheats” for Call of Duty: Warzone. They sure won’t help you merk your opponents, but they will inject a crapload of malware onto your computer. Advertisement A recently disclosed report from game publisher Activision shows that discussion of such schemes was recently observed on several different dark web forums. Criminals discussed tricking unsuspecting gamers into downloading a dropper—a malicious program that can be customized to install other, more destructive forms of malware (such as, say, a RAT) onto a computer or...

Health Official in Papua New Guinea Explains How Facebook Spreads Misinformation Alerts Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape (R) preparing to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in Port Moresby on March 30, 2021. Photo: Gorethy Kenneth/AFP (Getty Images) Papua New Guinea’s health minister, Jelta Wong, spoke with an Australian think tank over videochat on Thursday about challenges PNG faces in combatting the covid-19 pandemic. PNG is seeing a resurgence of the disease along with a growing wave of misinformation being spread online about vaccines, and the talk is an...