Wednesday, August 10th, 2016
Flash was an integral part of the internet in years past, but it has also been a drag on performance and the source of a great many security vulnerabilities. Today, HTML5 is a better way to get the same sort of interactive content running on the web, and it works ...
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Sunday, August 7th, 2016
We think of our monitors as passive entities. The computer sends them data, and they somehow—magically?—turn it into pixels which make words and pictures.
But what if that wasn’t the case? What if hackers could hijack our monitors and turn them against us?
As it turns out, that’s possible. A group of ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
You may not know what HTTP is exactly, but you definitely know that every single website you visit starts with it. Without the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, there'd be no easy way to view all the text, media, and data that you're able to see online. However, all communication between your ...
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Ransomware has been infamously known to be nasty pieces of malware that takes a computer's files hostage, and then demands a ransom, which can vary in cost. Countless variants have been discovered, which differ in how they are programmed, but all demand money in the end.
However, a new variant recently ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
SophosLabs just alerted us to an intriguing new ransomware sample dubbed RAA.
This one is blocked by Sophos as JS/Ransom-DDL, and even though it’s not widespread, it’s an interesting development in the ransomware scene.
Here’s why.
Ransomware, like any sort of malware, can get into your organisation in many different ways: buried inside ...
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