When it comes to picking a new device for your child, it’s often difficult to know where to start. Whether you’re…
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What’s the real value—and danger—of smart assistants?
You’ve heard them called virtual assistants, digital personal assistants, voice assistants, or smart assistants. Operated by artificial intelligence, technologies such as…
Can we trust our online project management tools?
How would you feel about sharing confidential information about your company on Twitter or Facebook? That doesn’t sound right, does it?…
Social media: A treasure trove of spam and scams
There are two kinds of spam associated with social media. There are spam ads that actually live on social media, and…
DDoS attacks are growing: What can businesses do?
Depending on the type and size of your organization, a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack can be anything from a…
A cure for the common cold call: freeze them out
The phone rings and it’s a number I don’t recognize. That’s enough to bring my mood down a few degrees. It…
Bank robbers 2.0: digital thievery and stolen cryptocoins
Imagine running down the street (and away from law enforcement) with 2,000 pounds of gold bars. Or 1,450 pounds in $100…
Stolen security logos used to falsely endorse PUPs
To gain the trust of users, many websites and companies feature the logos of reputable firms who endorse their products. Unfortunately,…
New Chrome and Firefox extensions block their removal to hijack browsers
What you don’t see won’t hurt you, must have been the reasoning of the threat actors who created the latest batch…
Using ILSpy to analyze a small adware file
As you can probably tell from some of the detection names at Virustotal, this is a MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) file….