The new feature is called Norton Crypto and will be available to early users of Norton 360 this week.

If Norton Crypto is enabled, the antivirus will use the device’s graphics card to mine Ethereum, and the mined cryptocurrency will then be transferred to the Norton cloud wallet.

The company claims that this feature will allow users to mine Ethereum without sacrificing their security, because mining software often triggers the operation [...]

The experts explain that security headers are an important part of the internet today. Technically, they are HTTP responses sent by the server to a client application, such as a browser.

Every time a user accesses the site, the browser makes a request to the server, from which the site is then loaded. While the sites themselves are rendered using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, administrators can add additional settings to the HTTP connection headers so that the user’s browser handles the [...]

Two-factor authentication, or two-step verification, is a popular security feature that adds extra security to the authentication process. As the second stage of authentication, while logging into an account, confirmation of the code sent via SMS to the associated mobile device or authentication application can be used.

Google customers can set up two-step verification to protect their accounts. Many users have already set up two-factor authentication in various services.

Google announced that it will soon introduce mandatory 2-Step Verification for Google accounts. The [...]

The statement said that based on new information that emerged during the investigation of the attack (in particular, the DNS traffic logs), it became clear that the incident affected not 18,000 clients, as previously thought, but only about 100.

Let me remind you that the SolarWinds hack has become one of the largest attacks on the supply chain in history. In December 2020, it became known that unknown attackers had attacked the company and infected its Orion platform with malware. Of [...]