Last week, WBUR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook dedicated an episode to the topic of ransomware. The guests included ransomware victims, as well as a security professional who discussed the problem. Unfortunately, the expert occasionally used jargon that may be foreign without some context, but Tom did a decent job of getting definitions from him. […]
In June, the makers of the Opera web browser had their IT systems breached. While the title of their blog post reads that they stopped the breach, this is really misleading. Yes, they stopped it, after hackers had compromised their systems, forged malware to make it look like authentic Opera software, and allowed people for […]
This weekend, Evernote announced that they were hacked, joining Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and NBC. All this in the first quarter of 2013!
That website you visit and trust is Agent Smith from the Matrix.
Because of a recent security breach, it’s time to change your Skype password.
80,000 Social Security numbers and personal financial information for members of the Vermont State Employees Credit Union have been lost in a security breach.