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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Regular Microsoft Patch Updates Are Critical To Keeping Hackers Out
Now, you have another very good reason to upgrade to Windows 10. If you refuse to do that, then at the very least, you have a very good reason to […]
Ransomware Brings To Light The Need For Robust Backup
The University of Calgary recently submitted to the will of hackers and ponied up $20,000 to get their files back after more than 100 computers were locked via ransomware. Almost […]
Does Your Cloud Storage Contain Infected Files?
More and more business are migrating increasing amounts of data to the cloud. That’s generally seen as a good thing, but there’s a fly in the ointment. The cloud, which […]
Search Results Look Weird? You Might Be Infected
Have you been noticing “strange” search results when you’re surfing the web? Have your search results been taking longer than usual to appear? You may have been infected by a […]