Category: Security

Feb 27, 2018

Scratch My Back – I’ll Scratch Yours

Why can't people just tell the truth and be transparent? The general public hasn't had a great opinion of politicians

Feb 26, 2018

Reality Check – Almost 93% of Cloud Applications Are Not Enterprise-Ready

Netskope, a cloud security company, released some startling data concerning cloud applications. Netskope analyzed anonymized data taken from its Netskope

Feb 15, 2018

Patch Outlook Now!

Microsoft's February patch update has fixes for 50 bugs affecting its products, including two dangerous Outlook bugs. One of the

Feb 14, 2018

Google Chrome Will Label Insecure Websites Starting in July

Google has long been a proponent of a safer and more secure Internet. Google's work is all part of a

Feb 12, 2018

Sandboxing Won’t Help You on a Mac

The concept is great. Create an area of computer memory to run processes in an isolated environment. The method is

Feb 08, 2018

WordPress Users – Update Now

There are a ton of websites that use WordPress to deliver content. On Monday, WordPress published version 4.9.3 maintenance release.

Feb 01, 2018

Spoiler Alert: The Dark Web is Not Totally Anonymous

Naked Security has reported that researchers may be able to reveal those who bought or sold goods on the dark

Jan 31, 2018

High-Severity Vulnerability in Lenovo Fingerprint Manager

I have always been a huge ThinkPad fan. I don't recall when I got my first ThinkPad, but it must

Jan 29, 2018

Free Ransomware Protection from Acronis

It may be a marketing scam, but it is hard to argue with free. According to the Register, Acronis has

Jan 22, 2018

Wake Up Gmail Users – Turn On Two Factor Authentication

Google has released some disturbing numbers concerning Gmail users. There are around one billion Gmail users and only 10% of

Jan 18, 2018

Ticked Off at an Apple User? Send Them an Evil Text Message

A new bug has been discovered that can crash iOS and macOS devices. Graham Cluley reported that a Twitter user

Jan 15, 2018

End-to-end Encryption Makes Skype Conversations Private

The history of Skype is fairly long for a technology company. First, Skype was developed as a peertopeer (P2P) free