You may have seen the news today. Criminal hackers have released a new strain of ransomware that spreads itself automatically across workstations in a network, causing another ransomware scare across the globe. Experts believe the ransomware was first distributed via...
Wikipedia’s definition of a virus hoax fits perfectly to a recent email question posed by one of my clients on an email she received: A computer virus hoax is a message warning the recipient of a non-existent computer virus threat. The message is usually a chain...
As reported at Securityweek.com, there has been a massive data security breach at large online marketer Epsilon. You may have found this out for yourself in your inbox this morning with notifications from several popular stores and banks that are customers of Epsilon,...
With the mass increase in use of social networking, blogs, and Internet usage around the world – the very nature of personal privacy is changing. Companies looking to hire individuals do not just run a criminal and credit check, they Google your name and search...
Today I had a visit with a brand new client whose computer was infected with spyware. The spyware was a rogue application that displays itself as an antivirus program called “Desktop Security 2010″. The spyware program displays warnings to the user that...
DNS stands for Domain Name System. But what is that? To quote Wikipedia’s entry on DNS: “translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical (binary) identifiers associated with networking equipment for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices...
