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02/02/2016

The US government has been victimized by romance scams

What happens on Facebook, probably won’t stay on Facebook. Facebook is the go-to site for hackers, spammers, and scammers. Here, they can find email addresses to spam, personal information that can...

01/20/2015

It’s that wonderful time of the year again, when all the information gathered by malware over the holidays begins to be distributed to all the eagerly awaiting customers in the deep web

It’s that wonderful time of the year again, when all the information gathered by malware over the holidays begins to be distributed to all the eagerly awaiting customers in the deep web. Actually, ...

09/04/2014

Gartner webinar: 5 Practical Steps to Securing Data in the Public Cloud

I’ve always been suspicious about the cloud idea. After all, do I really want to give some third party my most valuable information with the promise that they will take care of it? Besides, if you ...

07/08/2014

The Day Grandma Hacked and Brought Down the Internet in Three Countries

I’m not talking about normal malware here. To qualify as one of these most unusual hacks or mysteries, the perpetrator must have an unusual goal or an unusually creative angle. Admittedly, there we...

06/11/2014

All software security solutions are only temporary and can be circumvented.

There are three main reasons for hacking. One is for financial gain, one is for acquiring protected information, and the third is to achieve some political objective. The second reason for hacking,...

05/12/2014

While you’re watching TV, is your TV watching you?

Nothing is more disconcerting than coming home to find your refrigerator attacking your smart TV over who should be first to use the router to send spam. Yes, refrigerators often contain spam, but ...

05/01/2014

A revolutionary secure tablet for enterprise use

04/30/2014

Due to the latest Internet Explorer bug, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recommends that people ditch Internet Explorer until there's a patch -- or install special software in the meantime. instead.

It’s called Operation Clandestine Fox and it has the potential to be very dangerous. The problem is that this vulnerability comes shortly after the Heartbleed episode which may make people shrug it...

04/24/2014

Would you mind taking a 10-second survey to help us understand today's tablet use within various entities? Survey information will be used solely to compile aggregate response data only and for no other purpose.

04/16/2014

“it gives software programmers within a company the incentive to deliberately create vulnerabilities in the products they’re working on — and then secretly sell them to some government agency.”

Would you pay $300,000 dollars for a zero-day exploit like the Heartbleed bug? Well, somebody does, and it’s not the traditional hacker bad guys. They don’t have this kind of money. But before we g...

03/27/2014

“To see naked pictures of Carla Bruni click here”.

Don’t feel bad if you were tempted to follow the link. At the G20 conference in Paris in 2011, almost all those attending clicked on an attachment included with the above email.

“To see naked pictures of Carla Bruni click here”. Don’t feel bad if you were tempted to follow the link. At the G20 conference in Paris in 2011, almost all those attending clicked on an attachment...

03/25/2014

Attackers are actively exploiting a newly discovered Microsoft Word vulnerability that could be used to gain remote access of your PC

Poisoned RTF files can give hackers full control of your machine - even if you only preview the document in Outlook.