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Hardware Failure – Are you ready?
The big headlines have been all about Sony’s security breach, and the massive data leak that occurred. What you didn’t hear about was how large parts of their technology infrastructure were rendered unusable. Most of their workstations were severely infected and inoperable for at least several days (some for weeks) and a large portion of their network
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Is the Internet becoming polluted?
As many of you know, one of my specialties is framing complex technology concepts in more simple, human-relatable terms. When people have a better understanding of the tools they use, they have a tendency to use them more efficiently, effectively and to take better care of them. A thoughtful article in the Atlantic written by security
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Six common internet gotchas you should avoid
As a consultant, I work on many, many different computers throughout the year. Though the machines are used in a wide variety of industries and organizations, I still see a large majority of them suffering from the same handful of issues. In the hopes of lowering those numbers in 2015, here are the six most
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New IE zero-day surfaces
Lest you think Microsoft has finally plugged the many holes in the S.S. Internet Explorer, Patch Tuesday December includes four critical upates (Microsoft’s “critical” rating means they should be applied immediately) addressing newly discovered weaknesses, including an active zero-day exploit of the OLE (Object Linking & Embedding) platform. This particular chunk of code allows Microsoft
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The pathology and etymology of Malware
A client recently asked me, “What’s the difference between ‘malware’ and a ‘virus’? Is ‘spyware’ still a thing? Are these pop-ups a virus, or something else? Was I hacked?!?” As a computer user who could easily remember the earliest days of computer viruses, his confusion was understandable, especially when the media and sometimes even industry
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Multiple networks dangerously compromised for years
In the early days of malware, the most well-known viruses were designed to be noticed: at minimum they made themselves a nuisance through a variety of prankish behavior, all the way to the other extreme of destroying data (usually right after taunting you, just to make sure you noticed you got infected). Today, cyber criminals
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