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Email’s growing problem
Believe it or not, email has been around since the 1960’s, though it didn’t make its way into mainstream business culture until the early 1990’s. Judging from some inboxes I’ve come across, some of you might actually have email dating back that far. Depending on your industry, this may or may not be necessary, but
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Most Android devices impacted by critical vulnerability
Due to a vulnerability in Android’s implementation of MMS, nearly one billion smartphones and tablets could be impacted by a security weakness known as Stagefright. In a nutshell, an attacker exploiting this vulnerability could send an MMS message with an infected attachment that could literally take over your device without you knowing it. Even though
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Windows 10: Are you ready?
Of all the operating system releases in their long and storied history, Microsoft seems at last to be launching an OS that is at once very competent and highly anticipated. In case you didn’t know what today was, Microsoft is launching Windows 10 to the world, and it’s a sure bet that thousands (if not
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New data breaches could hurt more than wallets
Hacktivism is not new, but when the data stolen and released targets a group already beseiged by violent acts of “protest”, have the hackers stepped over the line into actual terrorism? What if the data stolen contains sensitive data aside from financial information, such as medical records, or proof of infidelity? What if the security
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Ashley Madison hacked – 37M users exposed
Hackers will go where the data resides, and there is perhaps no “juicier” website than the infamous Ashley Madison website that facilitates extra-marital relationships for nearly 40 million people. Owned by the Avid Life Media group, the Ashley Madison website is part of a family of similarly-minded websites including Couger Life and Established Men. The
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The last days of Adobe Flash?
Last week’s breach of Italian security firm Hacking Team exposed documentation that detailed the firm’s use of previously unknown security weaknesses in Adobe’s pervasive Flash platform. Typically known as “zero-day” vulnerabilities, these types of holes are being exploited by cybercriminals from the moment they are discovered, and companies will scramble madly to patch the problems
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