In mid-December Target disclosed that hackers broke into the company’s computer system and stole several millions of its members’ personal information. A month later and Target has just tripled the number of people that might be affected by the security breach. It's...
A number of Linksys and Netgear DSL modems have been found to be exploitable via a simple hole in the components’ firmware. How Was This Discovered? Eloi Vanderbeken recently took up the task of reverse engineering his Linksys WAG200G wireless DSL gateway’s firmware. ...
Recently, eight major websites have had security breaches where attackers got access to user's email addresses, user names, passwords and various other personal information. Some of the sites include: 152,445,165 Adobe Accounts 4,609,615 Snapchat Accounts 453,427...
Noam Liran, the chief software architect at Adallom, recently detected a flaw in Microsoft Office 365 which can easily expose account credentials through Word Documents that are hosted on a webserver which is currently invisible to existing anti-virus software. What...
What exactly are Bitcoins? Bitcoins are a digital currency that can be transferred securely between any two people in the world. Think of it as electronic cash that you can use to buy goods and services. Ultimately, a bitcoin is a number associated with an address....
It has been reported recently that Microsoft will be ending its retail sales of Windows 7. The customers who want to install Windows 7 on their present computers after this deadline may be out of luck. From 30th October, 2014, you will not be able to buy pre-loaded...
In the never ending battle to keep your computer running quickly and smoothly, one of the less obvious culprits are the programs that start each time you start your computer. Most if not all programs load in the background so you don't actually see them starting up....
In our previous article on Microsoft ending support and updates for Windows XP, we described what made Windows XP so commonly used and the dangers of continuing to run it after April of 2014. Microsoft has put another nail in the coffin for users who want to continue...
Your website is crucial in helping the rest of the world to find your service or to learn more about you. As more websites are built on Wordpress allowing you to easily manage your site pages, blog and online stores, it has become a target of criminals. In...
CryptoLocker is becoming the most malicious ransomware (a virus that holds your data ransom) of 2013 since your data is forever lost without a solid backup copy or shadow copy. Here is a summary of what it does and how you can protect yourself. What does it do to my...