The world of malware evolves rapidly, sometimes from one day to another, but one of the most recent surges in popularity has been found in wiper malware. You may not be familiar with wiper malware, but it’s a form of attack which has been steadily generating headlines...
In an admission which will severely damage their reputation, web hosting force GoDaddy has revealed its servers were under attack for several years. With a userbase of 21 million users, GoDaddy is one of the major players when it comes to providing web hosting...
Search engines are the gateway to the internet, but there’s a very real chance they may just be serving up malware each time you use them. We all use search engines on a daily basis - with Google being the most popular choice – and, to be honest, we probably take them...
Social engineering has been a threat for some time, so threat actors have been looking for new ways to deceive PC users. And this is what IceBreaker does. A backdoor threat, IceBreaker is a new malware variant whose origins are currently unknown. However, regardless...
A password is one of the simplest and strongest ways to deliver high-strength IT security, but it’s also one which has the potential to cause great damage. We use passwords on such a regular basis that their presence has become the norm. Logging onto your PC in the...
We all use USB devices daily, but these innovative and simple devices also make the perfect environment for the PlugX malware to take hold. USB devices are installed and ready to use within seconds of being plugged into a PC, a setup procedure which is a marked...
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is there to provide a high level of security, but what happens when this process is compromised? CircleCI is a platform used by software developers to build, test and implement code. Therefore, due to the amount of confidential and...
Cloud storage continues to grab the headlines with all manner of head turning statistics, but this doesn’t mean that offline storage is now redundant. Ease of access, scalability and high levels of security are just three of the many reasons why cloud storage has...
There’s a lot of money to be made in hacking and threat actors are now turning it into a business with Ransomware as a Service (RaaS). Ransomware, of course, is well known to anyone who steps online in the digital age. With the ability to encrypt your data and demand...
What exactly happened when LastPass, a password manager service, found itself at the center of a data breach? And what does this mean for your passwords? Password managers provide a convenient service, one where complex passwords can be generated instantly and then,...