He found that the encrypted network often wasn’t… but he lost patience when it looked as though nothing was being done about it. Source: Sophos
You have already read some of our tips to help prevent the most feared and common cyber-threat of the moment, ransomware; it can hijack your computer and all the computers in your company. Its main strength is that it is able to block computers and encrypt files, and the only one who is able to […]
You wake up to the beep-beep! ring of an alarm and, as you eat your breakfast, you comfortably read about the current events on your Smartphone screen without needing to listen to the radio, watch television or turn on the computer. On your way to work, while on public transportation, you take advantage of the time and play a game you’ve […]
Noodles & Company [NASDAQ: NDLS], a fast-casual restaurant chain with more than 500 stores in 35 U.S. states, says it has hired outside investigators to probe reports of a credit card breach at some locations. Over the past weekend, KrebsOnSecurity began hearing from sources at multiple financial institutions who said they’d detected a pattern of fraudulent charges […]
Even the inventor of the World Wide Web, Mr. Tim Berners-Lee, can have his password stolen. The hackers were able to access IT resources belonging to the organization that governs the Web (W3C). This makes us wonder: Is there a company that isn’t vulnerable to this type of attack? We all face the same problem: […]
A 2012 data breach that was thought to have exposed 6.5 million hashed passwords for LinkedIn users instead likely impacted more than 117 million accounts, the company now says. In response, the business networking giant said today that it would once again force a password reset for individual users thought to be impacted in the expanded breach. […]
Microsoft has disabled its controversial Wi-Fi Sense feature, a component embedded in Windows 10 devices that shares access to WiFi networks to which you connect with any contacts you may have listed in Outlook and Skype — and, with an opt-in — your Facebook friends. Redmond made the announcement almost as a footnote in its Windows […]
Kidnappers can easily take your digital information using one of the most dreaded types of malware: ransomware. Cyber-criminals are relying more and more on these malicious programs to block our computers. Now, they are asking for larger amounts of money if you want them to “give back” access to your hard-drive. The losses that a business can incur […]
