New Malware Spies on Gmail and AOL Inboxes. Webmail remains a crucial way in which you can keep on top of your digital communication, but what happens when people start spying on it? While AOL email addresses are far from a popular choice in 2021, there are still...
Office Macros Disabled: What the Hackers Did Next. One of the best ways to infect a PC has, until now, been through Office macros. But, now that they’re disabled by default, what are the hackers going to do? The numbers of hacks that have involved Office macros over...
The 5 Biggest IT Security Mistakes. Almost all cyber-attacks are due a common denominator: a mistake. We aren’t perfect, of course, but we can limit number of IT security mistakes we make. Working on a PC is far from straightforward and, as a result, the sheer number...
Sality Malware Delivers More than Recovered Passwords. Forgetting a password is frustrating, so the promise of a password recovery tool is tempting. Until, that is, you find out it’s packed full of malware. If something online sounds too good to be true, then it...
SessionManager Malware Targets Microsoft Exchange Servers. A new piece of malware has been found to be targeting Microsoft Exchange servers operated by both military and government organizations all over the world. Discovered by security giants Kaspersky, who also...
ZuoRAT Malware: A New Threat to Routers. Small businesses rely on routers to keep themselves and their customers connected. But this relationship could now be at risk due to the ZuoRAT malware. For online communication to work, data needs to move from one computer...
The Importance of Admin Accounts in IT. Visibility is vital when it comes to dealing with your IT network. Without it, anything could happen on your network. And that’s why we have admin accounts. The amount of data processed on any business network will be...
Five Forms of Hacking Which You May Not Be Familiar With. All organizations are at risk of being hacked, and that’s why we’re familiar with the most common forms of hacking. But what about the lesser-known hacks? With 300,000 new strains of malware being created every...
Hello XD Ransomware is no Laughing Matter. The Hello XD ransomware was first spotted in the digital wild back in November 2021, but recent research indicates that it’s becoming more virulent. There’s no such as ‘good’ ransomware, but it’s not unreasonable to describe...
Follina Exploit: A New Microsoft Office Vulnerability. The latest Microsoft vulnerability has been discovered, and this one allows infected Word documents to execute malicious code. This vulnerability, dubbed Follina by security researchers, is of the zero-day variety...