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July 21, 2016

The ecosystem of Apple’s Mac OS has long been heralded as a safe haven from the world of digital threats, and while its users were never immune to common phishing scams, they were largely in the clear from infiltration by most malware. (Read More...)

July 13, 2016

The Project Zero team at Google looks for defects in various software products. A researcher named Tavis Ormandy takes part in this effort. He recently identified serious security weaknesses in an assortment of Symantec and Norton utilities. The company quickly corrected (Read More...)

July 12, 2016

Judge Rules No Warrant Needed for FBI to Hack Private Computers   In taking the epidemic of hacking to a whole new level, a judge for the federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia has ruled that private citizens have no expectation of (Read More...)

July 8, 2016

Why Lenovo is telling users to remove an application because of a dangerous loophole. Lenovo has been urging its users to remove one of its applications after the discovery of a serious vulnerability. Let’s look at the definition of the vulne (Read More...)

July 7, 2016

It started with personal computers and then morphed to attack business data. The “it” is ransomware, and it is the latest way that black hat hackers have caused concern for individuals and businesses alike. (Read More...)

July 6, 2016

There’s little doubt that Facebook collects plenty of information about most Internet users. It employs activity logs, cookies and “Like” buttons to monitor both members and non-members. This helps the social network sell highly targeted advertising. Som (Read More...)

Do you back up everything each hour when your system is busy, and at least once a day, if it is not? Do you disconnect your backup devices from your system when they are not actually backing up? You may have answered the first question affirmatively. However, if you answe (Read More...)

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