Dec 13, 2016 | General Security
Microsoft’s December 2016 Patch Tuesday includes 12 patches, 6 of which are Critical, of the type which could allow Remote Code Execution (RCE). These are the most important patches and should be applied as quickly as possible.
Dec 13, 2016 | Mobile Security
Apple just released iOS 10.2, the latest upgrade for its iDevices. Lots of the articles you may have seen so far talk about the new features that were introduced, listed by Apple on the Software Update screen as follows: So, there’s a “new and unified experience for...
Dec 13, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
This blog entry is republished here as a training tool – full credit for this article goes to Jame Dupree: Wikileaks reveals email used to hack Podesta Tucked away in the twenty-first day of email releases from a top aide to Hillary Clinton today was the email...
Dec 12, 2016 | Buying Security Products, General Security
Netgear has just acknowledged an very embarrassing security bug that exists in a number of its home routers, probably including at a minimum the R6400, R7000 and R8000 models of their latest home routers. The bug is quite easy to explain, and it has been officially...
Dec 9, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
This week, the 24-year-old hacker Alonzo Knowles was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty in a case involving the hacking of female celebrities’ online accounts. Knowles didn’t stop at stealing what he found in the hacked accounts. He attempted...
