What is VPN ?

What is VPN ? It doesn’t matter if you are an IT administrator or just a regular user I am sure you have asked yourself sometimes what is VPN ? What does that stand for, what is the use of the VPN, how can you configure a VPN, MPLS and other questions related to this [...]

Advantages of custom software development

Advantages of custom software development So you are thinking about hiring a company to develop a custom software that will adapt to the needs of your business model. In this article we will answer to some of the questions that a company might have before outsourcing software development to others. 1. How to find the [...]

Network security software

Internet-Dependent World Means Network Security Software More Important In our increasingly Internet-dependent and Web-dependent world, network security software is more important than ever. For example, if you have an Apple iPhone there’s a device that allows you to scan a user’s credit card and then send that information via a Web-interface to a  receiver. The [...]

Facebook accounts hacked via expired Hotmail accounts

Three analysts at Rutgers University from Newark, New Jersey, found out an easy way to hack into Facebook accounts by altering existing features and responses of Facebook, Windows Live Messenger and the web based Hotmail from Microsoft. As the analysts shared, Microsoft will automatically terminate any Hotmail account that was not accessed in 270 days, [...]

U.S. websites compromised, lead to malware

Five or even more United States media websites and some other popular ones were infected and are now redirecting users that land on them to various harmful URLs, according to Zscaler. This websites were poisoned with modified JavaScript codes that contain iFrames redirecting users to one of the many websites that holds the ZeroAccess Trojan [...]

eBay users targeted by phisers via live chat support

UK ISP Netcraft has issued a warning for its users that phishers are impersonating as eBay live chat support individuals trying to get their hands on user names, personal and financial data. The ISP has blocked the fake website that offered support for the live chat, but they have mentioned that it is possible for other [...]

Malware that resides silently in your computer

One of the indicators that your computer might be infected with the ZeroAccess malware is the fact the online searches done on Google will sometimes take you to unhelpful websites that are stuffed with ads and also a lot of useless links. This will generate income for the malware developers, but that is very annoying [...]

Trojans are responsible for 80% of malware infections

PandaLabs released its report surveying the IT security events and incidents from January untill March 2013. In the first quarter of 2013 only, more than six and a half million new malware versions were created, following the trend of increasingly prevalent malware statistics of previous years. Trojans are still dominating the threat landscape, representing nearly [...]

The new GFI Cloud™ with Patch Management Functionality

GFI Software™ announced last week the addition of patch management capabilities to its ground-breaking, cloud-based platform for the delivery of services via a newly-enhanced, web-based user interface. Small to mid-sized businesses with time-pressed IT teams are already provided with robust antivirus and powerful network monitoring capabilities, as well as asset management, key components to managing [...]

Google Glass can be hacked and used for spying

The soon-to-come Google Glass (Augmented reality, head-mounted “glasses” that allows its wearer to access data and store all that is sees and hear raised some privacy issues among users. Untill now, just developers and some users that got in the early adopter plan were able to test the device, and one of the testers is [...]

Fake AV trying to pose as Microsoft

Cyber criminals are still trying to pose as Microsoft and try to fool users and make them think their computer needs urgently an antivirus software. Webroot analysts have found out an active spamming campaign that involves some websites that present a Microsoft Security Essentials like warning: “There are a number of ways to figure out [...]

Bogus PayPal “Reset your password” email delivers malware

Paypal users are lately targeted with bogus email messages that appear to come from the well known e-payment service. The email states that the user’s account is “on hold” and it will remain like that unless they reset their password: A more experienced user is likely to think that this email is a phishing attempt [...]

Bogus “New incoming fax” notification holds malware

Sophos analysts have found an active spamming campaign posing as the DuoFax internet fax company, stating that the user has received a fax message: It is possible that you don’t even own a fax at home or at the office, but you are still conscious that some people and businesses are still using this old [...]

Complex Apache backdoor found in the wild

ESET analysts and security company Sucuri have been examining a new threat that is aimed towards Apache webservers. This menace is a highly sophisticated and stealth backdoor used to redirect users to harmful websites that host the Blackhole exploit packages. Analysts have named this backdoor, Linux/Cdorked.A, and this is one of the most advanced Apache [...]

Data of 50M LivingSocial customers leaked after a network breach

The company that has the famous deal-of-the-day website LivingSocia, has acknowledged that their systems have benn hacked by unknown individuals and they have stolen information data like names, date of birth, email addresses and encrypted passwords. LivingSocial is thought to have more than 70 million worldwide users and almost 50 million of them have had [...]

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