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Identity Thieves Use Social Media To Gain Personal Information

Identity theft is a large, pervasive, and growing problem. In fact, statistics show that the instances of identity theft jumped a staggering 57% last year alone, this, according to figures […]

New iPhone Attack Seems Very Familiar: Watch Out For MMS

Last July, Android users got a nasty surprise. The surprise came in the form of a new type of attack directed against smartphones. Dubbed “Stagefright,” it allowed a hacker to […]

More Brain Power, More Buying Power, Less $$

Who wouldn’t want that? It’s exactly why you should consider outsourcing your IT needs. Let’s face it, whether you like them or loathe them, your computer systems are critical to […]

Microsoft Will End Free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer July 29th

By now, you’ve almost certainly heard the news. Microsoft’s latest OS, Windows 10, is free for the moment, but that’s ending as of July 29. After that point, if you […]

Ransomware Is Now Hitting Mobile Phones

Ransomware has become one of the fastest growing cybercrimes of 2016. Worse, these attacks are growing in their sophistication, and the hackers deploying ransomware have been upping their game by […]

20 Percent of Small Businesses Take CyberSecurity Seriously – Does Yours?

Barclaycard, one of the giants in the industry of global payments, has some disturbing new data to share about the state of cybersecurity in small and medium-sized businesses. Less than […]

Employee Connected Devices Could Put Network At Risk

Security company ForeScout has some disturbing new statistics about the state of digital corporate security. According to their research, 85% of IT professionals surveyed said they lacked confidence in their […]

Email Attachments With Java Script Pose Ransomware Threat

The hacking community is at it again, and they’ve once more upped the ante. It wasn’t long ago that ransomware called Ransom32 that was partially written in NodeJS, but delivered […]

Wearables…Super Trendy… and The Info They Contain Is Lucrative

Wearables, they are super trendy… and the info they contain is lucrative on the black market as well. They’re the coolest thing since a Swatch Watch (if you are old […]

Apple Releasing New Encrypted File System For Better Security

Apple recently, and very quietly, made an announcement that went largely unnoticed by technology press agents and reporters looking for juicy headline materials. It turns out that many may have […]