A piece of malware targeting Mac computers named Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor is making the rounds. While it may still come as news to some users that Macs can get infected, Mac OS X — Apple’s…
Satana Demands Payout and Warns Against Recovery Attempts With ransomware attacks making headlines nearly every day in 2016, it seems that IT security professionals and the cybercriminals that try to outsmart them are…
The ecosystem of Apple’s Mac OS has long been heralded as a safe haven from the world of digital threats, and while its users were never immune to common phishing scams, they were…
There’s no question that employees in today’s workforce are more technically literate than the generations before them. They use technology regularly to do their banking, get the news, network with colleagues, search for…
The Project Zero team at Google looks for defects in various software products. A researcher named Tavis Ormandy takes part in this effort. He recently identified serious security weaknesses in an assortment of…
Judge Rules No Warrant Needed for FBI to Hack Private Computers In taking the epidemic of hacking to a whole new level, a judge for the federal court for the Eastern District…
Why Lenovo is telling users to remove an application because of a dangerous loophole. Lenovo has been urging its users to remove one of its applications after the discovery of a serious vulnerability.…
It started with personal computers and then morphed to attack business data. The “it” is ransomware, and it is the latest way that black hat hackers have caused concern for individuals and businesses…
There’s little doubt that Facebook collects plenty of information about most Internet users. It employs activity logs, cookies and “Like” buttons to monitor both members and non-members. This helps the social network sell…
Do you back up everything each hour when your system is busy, and at least once a day, if it is not? Do you disconnect your backup devices from your system when they…
