Sep 20, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
The mainstream media is catching on to a post from last month in RedmondMag.com – about Cisco customers being hacked by “NSA Hacking Tools” – or, to put it another way, tools supposedly leaked from NSA hacker toolkits. By Kurt Mackie –...
Sep 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
Oliver Stone’s movie about Edward Snowden, which opened on Friday, September 16th, 2016, has a lot of people looking back at one of the biggest information security breaches in US history, the one we learned about in June, 2013. That’s when the UK-based Guardian...
Sep 14, 2016 | Browser Security, General Security
There are expected to be 350 million Wi-Fi hotspots around the world by 2018. While this brings with it a high level of convenience, there are significant security risks as well. With that in mind, we look at the five top questions you should be asking before...
Sep 14, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
Yesterday Microsoft released some 14 patch bundles to correct at least 50 flaws in various Windows and associated software systems, including a zero-day bug in Internet Explorer. About half of the updates released by Microsoft Tuesday earned the company’s most dire...
Sep 14, 2016 | Browser Security
Adobe has today pushed out a critical Flash Update – please install it today. Adobe’s advisory for this Flash Update is here. It brings Flash to v. 23.0.0.162 for Windows and Mac users. If you have Flash installed, you should update or remove Flash as soon as...
