Collaborate Disseminate
All it takes is a slip of the fingers to find your browser is visiting a “.om” website rather than a “.com,” and you might find your Mac has been hit by malware.
Read more in my article on the Intego Mac Security blog.
Continue reading Type a URL wrong, and you might end up with malware on your Mac
Remember the hack which saw intimate private pictures of a number of female celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton published on the net for anyone to see?
Well, even if you weren’t one of the unlucky victims – there’s still an important less… Continue reading The lesson we all must learn from the Celebgate nude photo hack
Famous sites which displayed the malicious ads and endangered visiting computers include MSN, bbc.com, the New York Times, AOL and Newsweek.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Crypto-ransomware spreads via poisoned ads on major websites
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Microsoft really really wants your business to upgrade to Windows 10 as soon as possible. But maybe sneaking adverts into security patches in order to shame sysadmins isn’t the right approach…
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insi… Continue reading Microsoft sneaks nagging Windows 10 ads into critical security patch
Might angry chess fanatics be behind the attack?
Continue reading Controversial world chess tournament website struck by denial-of-service attack
It seems that February was a busy month for scammers, who managed to trick a number of companies into coughing up confidential payroll information about their staff.
Continue reading More companies hit by fake CEO attack to steal employees’ payroll information
Windows, Mac and Linux users are being urged to update their installations of Adobe Flash, after the company pushed out a security patch addressing 23 reported vulnerabilities in the software.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Update Flash now – targeted attacks exploiting security holes
This software glitch’s solution is down to earth.
Continue reading Got an F-35 stealth jet? You may need to turn its radar off and on again
A naked video of TV sports reporter Erin Andrews was filmed furtively through a hotel room peephole, and published online.
But the guy who took the video is only 51% to blame, apparently.
Continue reading Erin Andrews wins $55 million over peephole video