It happens that malware writers and other miscreants in the digital world put messages in their malware. Sometimes they do it just for the “lulz”, sometimes to insult a person who hampers their criminal business, sometimes to deliver information to the guys on the other side who oppose them. We hope the case described in […]

A few months ago, Apple devices were the victim of a large-scale cyber-attack, the largest in the company’s history. The company had to withdraw more than 50 iPhone, iPad and Mac apps from the App Store as they installed malicious software that allowed criminals to control users’ devices remotely and steal personal information. So you […]

User-friendly and secure. Hardly anyone would pick either word to describe the vast majority of wireless routers in use today. So naturally I was intrigued a year ago when I had the chance to pre-order a eero, a new WiFi system billed as easy-to-use, designed with security in mind, and able to dramatically extend the […]

We could give you a lot of reasons to elaborate this guide, but we think that one should be enough: 91% of small businesses and freelancers suffer daily IT attacks. Yes, every day nearly 100% of small businesses or freelancers suffer some type of cyberattack that compromises the security of their businesses, data, and income. Do you still think that it […]

Microsoft releases thirteen bulletins this month, patching a total of 44 vulnerabilities. More than half of the critical vulnerabilities fixed this month support the web browsers, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. Vulnerabilities rated critical also exist in Opentype font parsing kernel components, Windows Media Player, and the Windows PDF library. Microsoft reports that none of these […]

The main objective of the Locky malware is to encrypt certain system files and network drives to coerce the affected user into paying a ransom to recover them. It renames all encrypted document as hash.locky files. Systems are infected via an email attachment. When the user opens the attached Word document, they enable a malicious […]