The Internet is overflowing with threats and hackers, but some of the most annoying malicious entities are bots. These are systems which can gather information from all kinds of sources. While some aren’t malicious in nature (think SEO bots which gather data from...
The technology and entertainment supergiant Sony did not have a very happy holiday season. Their Holiday gift was a high-profile hack, and it is the gift that keeps on giving as hackers continue to leak Sony’s employees’ sensitive information like Social Security...
Does your office use best practices when it comes to security and maintenance to protect against the latest internet threats, like Sandworm and CryptoWall 2.0? If you are not than your business might get a nasty holiday gift in the form of the Schannel vulnerability...
Recently, a new vulnerability was discovered in the Internet Explorer functionality of SSL 3.0. Due to the all encompassing nature of this vulnerability, all operating systems are affected. This makes it a big problem that must be quickly resolved. Thankfully,...
We reported in August that security researcher KarstenNohl of SR Labs revealed a flaw in USB firmware that cripples the technology beyond repair. At the Black Hat security conference, it was revealed that USB devices of all kinds can be targeted by hidden malware....
A new malicious threat to all businesses IT systems and the data they contain has just been discovered. The bug, dubbed the Bash bug, or “shellshock,” is threatening users of Unix-based operating systems, like Linux or Mac OS X. It allows the execution of...
