Our increasing reliance on Smartphones is making them more dangerous – we’re carrying passwords, credit card information, personal financial information, private information about our friends and family and more around with us in a box the size of a deck of cards. And theives can easily extract this information from the majority of lost/stolen Smartphones– [...]
http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/7/28/100-million-facebook-pages-leaked-torrent-site/ Commentary: There are no guarantees that anything you put online will remain private or secure. Ever. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d248′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
‘In the vast majority of cases, if people had kept their computer’s operating systems and software such as Internet Explorer up to date they would not have been attacked,’ http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2010/08/11/thousands-of-online-bank-accounts-wiped-out-by-virus-negligent-end-users/ Commentary: Keep your computers up-to-date! Keep your antivirus up-to-date! Don’t use Internet Explorer! Or let us do all of this for you! Bookmark It Hide [...]
For over a year we’ve been aware of an emerging security threat that targets (primarily) home PCs. But we’ve seen this security problem jump to corporate PCs as well. This threat is a serious problem as we’ve seen it show up in the field many times. This threat shows up in the form of ‘Fake’ [...]
Here’s an interesting article about a new type of malware that infects poorly-configured or unpatched consumer-grade DSL modems, routers and firewalls. This one’s called ‘Chuck Norris” and is an interesting example of a “botnet” which spreads through network equipment, not PCs. This is yet another example of how regular maintenance, security management & patching is [...]