BREAKING NEWS! Here is a virus that your anti-malware program may not detect. Before you get all worked up and hit the panic button, this is not a virus in the strict sense of the word. You are told that you are infected by this particular virus by crooks claiming to be the official Windows […]
Though, ransomware has been mentioned in previous issues of this advisory, there is a constant need to be reminded again of this menace. Simply because it’s not about to go away. Ransomware seem to have taken a sinister turn. It has, indirectly, caused victims to pay the ultimate price for ransomware – with their […]
Will the traditional way of robbing a bank become a thing of the past? Not likely, as not all bank robbers are tech savvy. Nevertheless, in today’s hi-tech world, cyber criminals resort to hacking into computers systems to steal money. In this case, the criminals sent out malicious emails to unsuspecting people who were the […]
BREAKING NEWS! Microsoft released patches today to plug at least 55 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system and other software. It was reported that three critical patches are for bug that is considered critical, which means that they can be exploited remotely to compromise their systems. However, most of the flaws are related to […]
BREAKING NEWS! For those of you who can’t seem to get enough of Whatsapp, you may now connect to most popular messaging system via your web browser. Last month, Whatsapp launched its web client called Whastapp Web, giving users the means to read and send messages directly from their browsers. Unfortunately, cybercriminals are always lurking […]
People are surprise when they have been infected or rather their computers have become infected. They haven’t clicked a bad link, visited a risky website or install any strange programs. They have done nothing except reading online news or browsing for some online shopping. Yet, the suddenly find that their credit card details have been […]
BREAKING NEWS! How you we love to download games onto to our mobile devices and spend time playing them every chance we get. However, we sometimes download more than we bargain for. We think that the apps we download from legitimate websites such as Google Play Store is safe. Well, not quite. The mobile market […]
Many people have a love-hate relationship with emails. In our daily lives, we are sometimes or may be very often, bombarded with emails, be it on private matters, work related or even spam. How we wish they will go away? But do we really want them to go away? Emails have become a communication tool […]
BREAKING NEWS! A widely used component of most Linux distribution has been found to have a highly vulnerability. It was discovered in the GNU C Library (glibc), a widely used component of most Linux distributions. It allows cyber criminals to execute malicious code on servers and gain control of Linux machines. This flaw has been […]
BREAKING NEWS! Adobe has patched two zero-day vulnerabilities (see Definition) over the past few days in its Adobe Flash. Last Thursday, Adobe released an emergency update for one of the critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player. Adobe has also been hit by second zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2015-0311. This vulnerability is “being actively exploited in the […]