Microsoft releases eight security bulletins today, updating a set of forty five software vulnerabilities. This month’s updates touch a smaller set of Microsoft software, but two of the Bulletins address kernel-level vulnerabilities and require a restart. Some are being exploited as a part of serious targeted attack activity: Windows Kernel, win32k.sys (MS15-061) Internet Explorer – critical Windows […]

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity ran an interview with Julie Magee, Alabama’s chief tax administrator, to examine what the states are doing in tandem with the IRS and others to make it harder for ID thieves to commit tax refund fraud — a $6 billion a year problem. Today we’ll hear from John Valentine, chair of Utah’s […]

One more, there have been so many, we’ve lost track! WhatsApp Trendy Blue is the last hoax to deceive the users of this instant messaging application. WhatsApp Trendy Blue, the new “version” that promises new options to customize the users’ WhatsApp. In fact, it is only subscribing the user to a premium rate service, which it is […]

What is your mother’s name? And your favorite color? We don’t want to interrogate you, these are the security questions we have to answer in order to recover our password or as an extra step during the identification process. If we have forgotten our password, after failing all attempts to entering it correctly, the platform […]

Finally you have your new smartphone in your hands. Whether it is a Nexus, an iPhone or a BQ we are sure that one of the first things you do is download WhatsApp. You are so focused on setting up the app that you haven’t stopped to think about the implications of your WhatsApp identification […]

In the April 7 issue of our Advisory, we wrote about Dyre banking malware that were used in phishing campaigns across the globe. Unfortunately, this threat hasn’t abated. Dyre malware was first profiled last year. Since then it has grown from strength to strength, posing a threat to not just to Europe and North America […]

If you are a business owner, probably one of the things you wonder is how to monitor all your devices? Well, with Systems Management you can manage and maintain them easily and affordably, whether they are in the office or on remote. Systems management allows you to optimize your IT infrastructure’s performance by automating its […]

This week we joined droves of vendors and executives in celebrating InfoSecurity Europe’s 20 year anniversary. The venue, the London Olympia, is a behemoth filled wall-to-wall with company banners, awkward sales pitches, gimmicky totebags, gift lightsabers, and ‘free’ prosecco readily exchanged for cloud security pitches. Security vendors, security vendors everywhere This year, the organizers wisely […]