You have heard before that ransomware has gotten to be near an epidemic menace. Listen up: things have gotten lots worse.Palo Alto Networks now has now has found a successful ransomware attack on Mac OS X. Read that again. Apple, the company thought by many users to be impervious to the many diseases that afflict ...
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It is the age of the internet, and one thing’s for sure - we’ve never been more plugged in than we are today. Forget laptops and tablets, these days even our watches are ‘smart’, and everything we say is ‘recorded for quality and training purposes’.Managing online privacy and security has become something of a ...
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Every article on passwords must start by discussing the same subject, so here it is: You’ve chosen a weak password, and deployed it unwisely. This article, however, doesn’t choose password formation as its primary focus. There has been a flurry of activity in the news lately about users who’ve been burned because ...
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Call this the year of ransomware - and that means cybercrooks have their eyes on your money.Here is what McAfee said in its Threat Predictions Report: “Ransomware will remain a major and rapidly growing threat in 2016. With upcoming new variants and the success of the ‘ransomware-as-a-service’ business model, we ...
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There is a smartphone that you can buy for twenty dollars now. You wouldn’t want to buy it -- as a phone, it fails horribly in terms of usability and ergonomics -- but it embodies the idea of a smartphone in every way. It has a touchscreen, a camera, a recognizable version of the Android operating system, and of ...
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Hilton, Starwood. Marriott. Mandarin Oriental. Hard Rock. Trump. The list of hotels that have acknowledged breaches of their credit card systems goes on and on. This has real meaning for you, particularly so in the holiday season when hundreds of millions of us are traveling and staying in hotels.Your favorite ...
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