Don’t Let Your Former IT Staff Sabotage Your Company
Via Graham Cluley | @gcluley Don’t give disgruntled workers and former staff a window of opportunity to cause damage or steal company confidential information. Read full article
Find Out If Your Google Account Has Been Hacked
Via Matt Elliott | @themattelliott The Gooligan malware attack targeting Android devices has infected more than a million Google accounts. Has your account been compromised? It's easy to check to find out. Read full article
Skyping and Typing the Latest Threat to Privacy
Via Michael Mimoso | @Mike_Mimoso Multitasking while on a work-related Skype call may be good for productivity, but perhaps not so much for privacy. Read full article
East Coast Feeling Effect of Denial of Service Attack
Been having trouble getting around the Net today? You're not alone. The eastern part of the United States is being affected by today's second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. William Turton from Gizmodo provides more details. Read full article
Don't Have a Yahoo Email Address and Think You're Safe from the Hack?
Via Graham Cluley | @gcluley As we should all know by now, Yahoo announced recently it had been massively hacked. Think you're safe because you don't have a Yahoo! account? Think again. Read full article
2016 Cybersecurity Report (for Pizza Only)
Via Jon Hendren | @fart Something often overlooked in cybersecurity reporting is that criminals don’t just target banks, governments and huge businesses — that’s Hollywood. Read the full article.
Keeping Your Online Accounts Safe
With security breaches becoming a common occurrence, how can we feel safe that our digital lives won't fall victim to the next breach to hit the news? The Sad Truth About Security In today's highly connected world, there is almost no way to guarantee security. Security is a moving target. It's a race between those with sensitive data and those...
Drown attack sinks SSL security
Via Cliff Saran | @cliffsaran Researchers have published a paper outlining how an attacker could crack the TLS security protocol to gain access to millions of secure websites. The cross-protocol attack, known as DROWN (Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption), performs live attacks on TLS, one of the main protocols used for security on the...