Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Online security company LastPass published an announcement yesterday on the official company blog that it detected and blocked suspicious activity on the company network.
According to the information posted on the blog, the company did not find evidence that LastPass user accounts were accessed or user vault data was downloaded. The ...
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
I'm helping someone reconfigure their home network and realized that I never posted about the Y-router configuration. Most folks have a home modem that is leased from their ISP and most of these newer modems have built-in router functionality and provide both LAN and WLAN connectivity, but this modem is ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2015
Everyone wants a secure operating system. No one likes to have a computer infected with malware that slows down the PC, destroys files or steals sensitive information. Often, that operating system isn't very secure by default. If it's also a highly popular OS, such as Windows, then more tools are ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2015
TeleSign launched Turn It On, a new campaign featuring a guide to two-factor authentication and providing step-by-step instructions for turning on 2FA for over a 100 popular social networking, banking, cloud computing and other online services that offer the 2FA option.
“The number one tip most experts give for increasing account ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015
Macs older than a year are vulnerable to exploits that remotely overwrite the firmware that boots up the machine, a feat that allows attackers to control vulnerable devices from the very first instruction.
The attack, according to a blog post published Friday by well-known OS X security researcher Pedro Vilaca, affects ...
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