The Adobe Flash Player continues to be the favourite browser plugin threat actors have been focusing on this year. The recent zero-day…
Month: October 2015
Advertising Brokers: A Background Information
This post is intended to give you some background information about advertisement brokers, the men and women that are in the…
Leaving Laptops in Hotel Rooms: A Bad Idea
What’s in your travel bag? A laptop filled with data? An external HDD filled with even more data? There’s bound to…
Imitation Putlocker Site Unlocks Path to PUP
The site called Putlocker may be at least familiar to anyone who have searched online for free, non-region restricted video streams…
What’s Patch Tuesday?
We’re two weeks out from Patch Tuesday. Chances are, an IT admin and/or CISO spent the day battening down the hatches while…
A Vintage Year for Free Wine Spam
Free wine? Free wine. That’s the claim currently bouncing around Facebook, at any rate. As with all things Internet, it requires…
The Art of Data Wiping on Mobile Devices
Buying and selling things online are just two of the many activities Internet users are fond of doing. For some, they…
Is Mac malware on the rise?
Last week, Bit9 + Carbon Black released a paper stating that five times more malware for OS X has appeared in…
A Week in Security (Oct 18 – Oct 24)
Last week, we touched on a fake Java download, an Apple invoice phish, current tactics used by chip-and-PIN fraudsters, an upcoming…
Furor Over IoT Dangers Could Fuel Innovative Security Measures
By Robert Westervelt Privacy and safety concerns associated with the billions of connected devices known as the Internet of Things could prompt…