As you may know, October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month in America, which is a good time to ask yourself how aware you are when it comes to threats to your digital devices and personal information. If you feel the need to increase your awareness, or that of friends and family members, ESET is … More How’s Your Cyber Security Awareness? Do we really need security training?
The people responsible for online safety at DoneDeal read our yesterday’s story about Scammers looking for victims on DoneDeal.ie and sent us some of their security advice for buyers and sellers. In our opinion that shows commitment on behalf of the company towards the safety of their customers, so we’re happy to back their efforts … More DoneDeal’s security advice for online buyers and sellers
On Thursday, September 12, Duo Security, a young-but-respected vendor of two-factor authentication devices, announced the preliminary results of a study of over 20,000 Android devices from a two month old study they performed. Based on the results, they calculated that over half of Android devices on the market have security vulnerabilities that are, as yet, … More The Dynamic Duo for Securing your Android: Common Sense and Security Software
I’m caught up this week in a lengthy internal meeting, and next week with Virus Bulletin in Dallas, but I couldn’t resist a quick follow-up to the Gaelic ransomware posts here and here. The indefatigable Kafeine (heartfelt hat tip!) has laid his hands on another copy of the scam message, and this time it does … More Ransomware Part III: another drop of the Irish
Here are some thoughts on the safe use of cloud computing for smaller businesses, along with a podcast (see the link at end of the post). The Cloud concept, a flexible Virtual Machine (VM) based system that allows rapid expansion and dedicated functionality without hiring new staff, has taken the business world by storm. The … More The Cloud for SMBs: 7 tips for safer cloud computing
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