“Several high-profile email providers have been the subject of a leak of user account information, which includes usernames, email addresses and unencrypted passwords. The leak involves multiple services; popular names such as: Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Mail.ru. The security firm that discovered the breach, Hold Security, believes that many of the accounts involved in…
National Small Business Week is underway, and the festivities didn’t take long to address one of the most glaring and ever-present issues for small to midsize businesses (SMBs): cybersecurity. The Small Business Administration (SBA) is the US government agency dedicated to providing concrete help, training, and recommendations that small businesses can put into practice right away…
Hackers are getting faster whilst defenders are treading water. Over 99 per cent of attacks compromise systems within days (four out of five do it within minutes), and two-thirds of those siphon off data within days (a fifth do it in minutes). Whilst there was an improvement in the number of breaches detected in ‘days…
Encryption and how you control data your is a hot topic right now, but understanding encryption and how it relates to your personal data is confusing. YouTuber CGP Grey explains encryption, as well as some of the issues up for debate right now, as simply as possible. If you’ve read about the debate between Apple…
US-CERT (U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team) based its alert on news Thursday from Trend Micro’s TippingPoint group, which said it had been told by Apple that QuickTime on Windows had been deprecated, or dropped from support, meaning no future security updates will be issued and development has been halted. Lose it, it has vulnerabilities and…
“Windows XP exited public support on April 8, 2014, amid some panic on the part of corporations that had not yet purged their environments of the 2001 OS. Unless companies paid for custom support, their PCs running XP received no security updates after that date” And we wonder why there are so many vulnerable computers…