Tag: Protection

Living Social Security Breach
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Living Social breach leaks 50mil user credentials Attackers breached Living Social’s network and made off with the personal info of over 50 million users. The stolen information included things like e-mail addresses, dates of birth, and hashed password. Though the passwords were hashed, attackers can still leverage brute force attacks to figure out the weaker…

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More Security Patches for Adobe Flash
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Adobe Flash Player displays interactive, animated web content called Flash. Although Flash is optional, 99% of PC users download and install it to view multimedia web content. It runs on many operating systems, including mobile operating systems like Android. In a security bulletin released yesterday, Adobe announced a patch that fixes four critical vulnerabilities in…

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Is Your Data Backup Solution Working For You?
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We deal with a variety of businesses and each has unique needs when it comes to protecting their data. One thing is common between all of them; if they lost all their data they would likely lose their business entirely. It’s a fact. A majority of businesses who experience a critical loss of their data…

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Microsoft Patch Time Again
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According to the latest Microsoft Advanced Notification page, seven security bulletins will be released next Tuesday. The bulletins will include updates to fix security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer (IE), Silverlight, and some of their server Software. They rate more than half (4/7) of the bulletins as Critical, which typically means remote attackers can…

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Another Critical Java Update
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Yesterday, Oracle released yet another emergency Java update to fix two critical vulnerabilities in the popular web plugin. By enticing you to a web site with malicious content, attackers can leverage these flaws to execute code on your computer, with your privileges. If you are an administrator on your computer it’s game over. That’s why…

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Password Security
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We commonly find that people are using insecure, easily-guessed passwords. The most frequent explanation is that the password is “easy to remember.” The trouble, of course, is that passwords which are easy to remember are also easy to guess. But when you institute a series of rules and requirements for secure passwords, what usually happens…

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Protect Yourself from Virus Attack in 5 Simple Steps
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Viruses are as prevalent today as they have ever been. In 2009 alone, they caused a total of over five billion dollars in damages through lost productivity and downtime to businesses worldwide. And the number one way that viruses find their way into businesses today remains directly through email. Still today we’re amazed at how…

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