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Village of Arlington Heights website experiencing technical difficulties (Screen Capture of vah.com)

Village of Arlington Heights, Discover Arlington, Other Municipality Websites on Third Day of Failure with CivicLive Web Vendor

Sun Feb 7, 2021 04:07 pm Cardinal News

Village of Arlington Heights Website Failure The Village of Arlington Heights announced at 7:51 a.m. Friday, February 5, 2021 that the official website for the village (vah.com) was down with “technical difficulties.” The Village of […]

Trader Joe's Impersonator fraud for free groceries voucher on WhatsApp

Scam Impersonating Trader Joe’s with a Fake Voucher for Free Groceries Continues April 2020

Wed Apr 29, 2020 03:22 pm Cardinal News

Trader Joe’s on April 15, 2020 announced a scam involving an “organization” that is impersonating the company and claiming that Trader Joe’s is offering a voucher for free groceries at the grocery retailer. “Trader Joe’s […]

Apple FaceTime Users with iOS 12.1 Face Serious Bug Affecting Privacy

Tue Jan 29, 2019 09:33 am Cardinal News

YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN’T BRING YOUR IPHONE INTO THE BATHROOM ANYWAY, BUT NOW YOU REALLY HAVE A REASON TO KEEP IT OUT OF THE BATHROOM Apple users are facing news, on Tuesday January 29, 2019, of […]

Facebook Down for About 5 Minutes Friday Late Morning, 2 Days After Taking Down Russian Pages

Fri Aug 3, 2018 12:06 pm Cardinal News

Facebook was down about 11:20 a.m. CDT for about 5 minutes in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Outage tracker Down Detector (downdetector.com/status/facebook) reported a spike in reports from Facebook users from countries around the world, including the […]

Corrupt ASes: Outages at Comcast, RCN, Verizon and More Caused by Misconfiguration at Level 3 Internet Backbone Company

Tue Nov 7, 2017 06:21 am Cardinal News

An Internet outage Monday November 6, 2017 was caused, according to several media sources, by a misconfiguration of manually typed characters at Level 3, an internet backbone company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. The misconfiguration caused […]

Google Docs Email Phishing Scam Fix: How It Works and What to Do About It

Wed May 3, 2017 05:42 pm Cardinal News

UPDATE: Google has confirmed it has now fixed a phishing attack, where a sophisticated attacker was able to obtain contact lists, and access Gmail accounts to spread spam messages widely. Google has taken action to […]

Apple Hack Attack on Apple’s iOS App Store by XCodeGhost

Sat Sep 26, 2015 04:42 pm Cardinal News

Apple left to clean up big mess in app store after being hacked. Apple has removed infected apps in their Chinese App Store, after iOS developers downloaded a malicious version of Xcode from the cloud […]

Go Daddy Down: Millions of Websites Down After Hacker Disrupts Domain Service

Mon Sep 10, 2012 04:22 pm Cardinal News

Go Daddy, Internet domain registrar and web hosting company for over 45 million domain names, has been brought down by a malicious flood of network traffic or Denial of Service attack. A self-proclaimed member of […]

AVOS Aquires Internet Bookmarking Service Delicious from Yahoo!

Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:08 pm aauthor

Announced today, AVOS is acquiring the popular web page bookmarking website Delicious.com. The website allows users to collect website bookmarks from any computer or mobile device and also view the collection from any computer or […]

Amazon Data Center (Cloud-Based Service) Failure Takes down FourSquare,HootSuite

Thu Apr 21, 2011 08:43 pm Cardinal News

Scores of websites and Internet services like Foursquare and Reddit crashed or had limited availability Thursday because of problems at a data center run by Amazon. An outage described by Amazon as “instance connectivity, latency […]

Phone Data Extraction Devices (UFEDs) by Celebrite Used By Michigan State Police

Wed Apr 20, 2011 06:10 pm Cardinal News

Concern That Michigan State Police Officer Are Not Complying with Fourth Amendment Requirements Michigan State Police are using handheld phone data extraction devices that can retrieve a variety of information from cell phones. State Police […]

Location: Apple iPhone Forensic Analysis Is Easy with a File That is Located on All iPhone and Computers Synchronized with That iPhone

Wed Apr 20, 2011 04:30 pm Cardinal News

Location, Location, Location: Apple iPhone Forensic Analysis Is Easy with a File That is Located on All iPhone and Computers Synchronized with That iPhone Security data researchers Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan have discovered that […]

New 4G Network from LightSquared Could Hamper GPS Technology

Wed Apr 6, 2011 01:41 pm Cardinal News

A new ultra-fast wireless Internet network is threatening to overpower GPS signals across the country and interfere with everything from aviation systems to consumer navigation devices. New 4G technology … LightSquared, a satellite wireless internet […]

Lizamoon Attack: Over 1 Million Websites Infected, Display Fake Warning for Security Fix

Sun Apr 3, 2011 10:33 am Cardinal News

Over 1 million websites were known to be infected with malicious code that causes web viewers to see a warning posing as a Microsoft Security Alert — the Windows Stability Center — reporting that there […]

Malware Alert: Trojan Attack Posing As UPS Delivery Problem, Rise in Infected Emails, SMSME Failure

Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:50 am Cardinal News

Have you received an e-mail about a package delivered to your home. Or about to be delivered? Does the e-mail have an attachment? BEWARE! UPS rarely sends emails with attachments. But there is an email […]

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