May 31, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
Today we bring you news of a breach which is so massive in size, it is quite probably, the largest breach in history. This particular breach is from MySpace, and the number of passwords claimed to be included is an eye-popping 427 million. Apparently, there are only...
May 25, 2016 | Data Breaches, General Security
Microsoft if battling weak passwords by banning those most commonly used passwords – as found in lists of breached user accounts: Azure Active Directory’s 10 million or so users will no longer be able to select a password that’s appeared too many...
May 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
The worst kind of malware at the moment are the ransomware variants – Kryptolocker, Locky, Teslacrypt etc. – an infection from this type of malware will leave you with your files locked up and a demand for money on your computer screen. That’s a bad...
May 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
Have you been infected by one of the new variants (v3 or v4) of the notorious TeslaCrypt ransomware? If your encrypted files had the extensions .xxx, .ttt, .micro, .mp3 or were left unchanged, then ESET has good news for you: they have a decryptor for TeslaCrypt. They...
May 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
Popular restaurant chain Noodles & Company is reportedly investigating a possible credit card breach. Asked to comment on the reports, Broomfield, Colo.-based Noodles & Company issued the following statement: “We are currently investigating some unusual...
