May 23, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
In most cases when somebody releases a botnet or virus, it is to generate money from poor, unsuspecting victims. Such was the case with the recent Flashback botnet unleashed on Mac devices. That botnet managed to generate $14,000 from its click fraud campaign. However, the beautiful hand of irony has decided to rest ge
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May 21, 2012 · Microsoft, Windows & Software
Twitter recently announced that it is supporting “Do Not Track” and showed that support by immediately halting online tracking of users who trigger a setting in their browsers. The announcement was made by an official with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) during a Do Not Track (DNT) event that was hosted by Mozi
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April 28, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
A lot of naysayers out there are spewing venom about Apple lately, the most recent being CEO of Kaspersky Lab Eugene Kaspersky. The head of the security firm believes that the Cupertino computer company is headed for rough times, at least as far as computer security is concerned. Kaspersky, who spoke to Computer Busine
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April 22, 2012 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
If you are an internet pirate in Sweden, you had better watch out because the European Court of Justice has just issued a new law interpretation that could have some serious impact on the prosecution of discovered and convicted internet pirates in the Northern European country. The European Court of Justice stated that
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April 13, 2012 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Just two days after Apple promised customers that it would decontaminate Mac computers plagued by the Flashback malware the company has finally delivered. Apple just released its newest Mac OS X Java update yesterday, an update that includes a tool that will, as an Apple advisory states, “remove the most common variant
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March 29, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
International British conglomerate News Corporation, headed by Rupert Murdoch, is still under the shroud of a recent phone-hacking scandal as it faces even more hacking allegations in Australia. According to the Australian Financial Review, internal documents and emails supposedly show that a “secret unit” inside News
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March 20, 2012 · Microsoft, Windows & Software
It’s happened to all of us. We’re waiting on a certain email from somebody. We wait and wait and wait only to find out that when it was delivered…it went in your spam folder. But why is it that certain emails over others get dumped into your spam folder? Even ones from trusted senders? Well, if
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March 14, 2012 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Microsoft announced last week that it would ship six security updates this week to patch seven different vulnerabilities in Windows as well as a pair of for-developers-only programs. Microsoft also added that only one of the security updates was critical. Patch Tuesday for March of this year sees three more updates and
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March 5, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
There is nothing sweeter than poetic justice. Somebody getting what is coming to them is really one of the best things somebody else can witness. It can be great if the person getting what they deserve is getting something good, or it can just be flat out ironic. Such is the case with Anonymous, the
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March 2, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
I don’t know about you, but when my internet goes down, I go into a rage. Everything I do revolves around my internet. My job, Xbox, my PC, Facebook, it’s like a bad dream, and I’m just a 22-year old guy from Ohio. I imagine that when the internet goes down at a place like,
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February 22, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
I’ve got some good news that is immediately followed by some bad news. The good news is that spam is continuing to decrease with the bad news being that cybercriminals are still hard at work creating intricate and sophisticated computer hacks and launching them on helplessly unsuspecting victims according to a recent T
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February 16, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
Senators discussed on Tuesday the prospect of getting a jump on recent efforts to increase U.S. computer security with an all new bill. This new bill would require private companies operating critical infrastructures to meet certain security requirements. This is only the latest attempt by the Senate to combine competi
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February 7, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
It has recently been discovered by researchers at Trend Micro that there is a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads stolen data cache to the SpendSpace file-sharing service for when it needs to be retrieved. Creators of malware often use file-hosting and sharing servers for that exact purpose. However,
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February 2, 2012 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Amazon Web Services has just added four new locations that allow enterprises to use its Direct Connect network service in order to communicate with Amazon’s cloud, according to a statement released by the company on Tuesday. The all new Amazon Web Services Direct Connect locations that have been added include the CoreS
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January 18, 2012 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
A problem in McAfee’s Saas Endpoint Protection software that allows computers to serve as open proxies for spam is being investigated by the company according to a recent statement from a McAfee representative. A statement from the rep says, “We are aware of the issues and have both threat analytics and development tea
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