Ransomware Affected Over 50 Percent Of Surveyed Companies
Sophos has released the results of their annual "State of Endpoint Security Today", and it doesn't paint a pretty picture. A full 54% of companies surveyed reported having been hit by ...
Microsoft is Adding Much Needed Feature To Windows Defender
Microsoft is getting tough on so-called "registry cleaners", and it's about time. The company recently announced a planned change to Windows Defender (the anti-malware program that comes standard with every Windows ...
Malware Makers Testing Vulnerability Of Meltdown And Spectre
Security researchers from around the web are reporting finding an increasing number of instances of proof of concept (PoC) code that incorporates the recently discovered Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. If you ...
If your Point Of Sale Uses Oracle, Update Now
Oracle is currently the third-largest provider of POS (Point of Sale) software on the market today, which means that there's a fairly good chance you're using an Oracle POS system. If ...
Fitness Trackers Could Be A National Security Risk
If ever there were two phrases that didn't seem to go together, they would probably be "Fitness trackers" and "National Security Risk." The very idea that a simple fitness tracker could ...
700,000 Potentially Malicious Apps Removed From Google Last Year
Google recently released their Play Store stats for 2017. The results are both encouraging and disheartening. Overall, Google caught and removed more than 700,000 malicious apps from the Play Store, minimizing ...
iPhone Throttling Issue To Be Addressed In Upcoming Update
Recently, Apple found itself in hot water with its normally adoring user base. This happened when it became known that the company was intentionally throttling (slowing down) the speed of older ...
Electronic Health Record Company “Allscripts” Hit By Ransomware
Another day, another high-profile ransomware attack. This time, the victim was Allscripts, an EHR (Electronic Health Record) company that hospitals, pharmacies, and ambulatory centers around the country rely on. The company's ...
Performance Issues Plague PC’s Updated With Spectre Patch
Recently a critical flaw was found inside every Intel chip made during the last decade. The flaw makes two different exploits possible. These exploits have been dubbed "Meltdown" and "Spectre." The ...
Windows 10 Privacy Becoming More Transparent In Next Version
All companies collect data on their customers, but some are better than others when it comes to being upfront about what kinds of data are collected. Over the past year, Microsoft ...
