Cybercrimes are threatening both consumers and companies. According to the June 2017 McAfee Labs Threats Report, there were 244 new cyber threats every minute in Q1 2017 — that's more than four threats every second.   The report also found that total malware samples reached 670 million that same quarter and that the total number of mobile malware samples reached 16.7 million.   “Retailers that protect their customers from journey hijacking experience immediate increases in customer retention...

In Chrome’s pre-release Canary app for Android, which previews and tests features coming later to the stable version, there is now a feature that allows users to toggle a built-in blocker for sites with intrusive advertising.  The toggle is found under Chrome’s settings menu, in a subsection called “Ads” of the “Site settings” menu item. It allows you to toggle on a feature that will “Block ads from sites that tend to show intrusive ads,” though it’s set off by default, at least in this...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly a fact of life for any business with a web presence. For any company, large or small, it’s no longer a matter of “if” you will get hit with a DDoS attack, but “when.” And without a third party provider who site between your site and the internet, WordPress and Joomla! sites are increasingly vulnerable to bots delivering DDoS attacks. Why only WordPress and Joomla! sites you may ask - it's not just them but these platforms make up...