With all of today’s technology, one would think that it would be easy to track down the owners of “illegal” sites. It’s much more complicated than that.
Ask Leo: Why aren’t illegal sites easier to track down? Read More »
To gain a better understanding of home computing practices, GFI® Software commissioned a scientific study of home Internet use by parents and their teenage children. This population represents a particularly interesting “risk pool” not only due to their usage patterns in the home, but also due to the theory that “tech savvy” teens, who have spent their entire cognizant lives in the Internet age, may prove to be a harder human target for social engineering attacks than their elders.
GFI Vipre: Your Kids are Hiding on Facebook Read More »
If you have not done anything to protect your WordPress site, most probably you are not safe. By default, WordPress only comes with a single login mechanism. Anyone that has your username and password can easily login to your site and wreak havoc. The only way to prevent it is to tighten the security of your site so other people won’t be able to crack into your site easily.
Maketecheasier.com: 5 Useful Ways To Protect Your WordPress Login Read More »
The death of Bin Laden has generated a whole bunch of scams and new malware.
Malware Minute: Bin Laden Scams, Malware & Junk Read More »
A nasty piece of malware known as LizaMoon has hijacked links on millions of websites in the past weeks, including some normally safe iTunes and Google links.
Windows Secrets Newsletter: How Malware Paralyzes PCs Read More »
By Leo Notenboom
Open WiFi hotspots at coffee shops, airports and other public places are opportunities for hackers to steal information. I’ll review how to stay safe.
Ask Leo: How to use an open WiFi hotspot safely Read More »
By Bill Pytlovany
Why do companies still use these predictable and lame questions?
Bits from Bill Pytlovany: Password Security Questions Suck Read More »
By Steve Bass
There’s nothing you can do to prevent a third party from
exposing your e-mail address. But there’s a handy trick to
monitor if a company you’ve given an e-mail address to is
using it to spam you. And then block it so you’ll never
see it again.
TechBite: A Nifty Spam Tracking Trick Read More »
By Bill Pytlovany
Last week a serious failure in storing names and Email occurred due to a security flaw by a company name Epsilon. This may be the largest failure in protecting names and Email in my lifetime. Epsilon is trying to downplay this failure by claiming it only lost 2% of its database
Bits from Bill Pytlovany: Epsilon lets its customers fix their security failure Read More »
The weekly roundup of top stories from the GFI Labs Blog – including news of a new frequent flyer phishing scam and yet more rogue security products.
Malware Minute: 8 New Rouge Security Products Read More »