Yesterday, LinkedIn started investigating a password leak, followed by online dating site eHarmony, and now online music streaming site LastFM has announced on their blog that they too are investigating the leak of user passwords. As a precautionary measure, they are advising all their users to change their passwords immediately. You can do that here. […]
The last two years have seen an increase in malware which takes control of, and holds hostage an infected machine, locking the user out until a payment of some form can be extorted. This threat type is also known as ‘ransomware’. Various tactics have been used by the malware writers in an attempt to intimidate […]
AT&T recently released a film from its archive called “Computer Security: You Make The Difference“. While you might chuckle at the 1990’s music and production values – the truth is this – many of basic issues that the video (which is a series of films stitched together) attempts to illustrate are still with us today, […]
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