Apr 10, 2014 | General Security
This heartbleed bug has far-reaching implications and we were discussing this with Dave Taylor of AskDaveTaylor.com – he asked if we could provide him with an original piece on the security vulnerability – that blog article can be found here: What’s the...
Apr 9, 2014 | General Security, Malware and Exploits
The Heartbleed security flaw (also known as CVE-2014-0160) is a very serious flaw in the openSSL library, which is library used to secure communications between computers including servers around the world. The library is used for different reasons – but some...
Apr 8, 2014 | Browser Security, General Security
We were recently notified by vendors that openSSL – the heart of the internet security – has had a bug in it for TWO YEARS! Patches were being rushed out yesterday and today and vendors with openSSL security servers (90% of the internet) were frantically...
Apr 1, 2014 | Cyber-Crime
In what is being hailed as a ‘landmark’ legal case, a computer scammer in Luton, UK was given a suspended 4 month prison sentence and ordered to pay £5,665 ($9,421) compensation and £13,929 ($23,165) in prosecution costs. Mohammed Khalid Jamil (34) of...
Mar 15, 2014 | General Security, Vendor News
In just over 23 days, we will finally reach Windows XP end of life – windows XP will be now more – well… not really, it will still exist, but you won’t get any updates from Microsoft for this operating system – EVER! That is to say...
