By Zack Whittaker Summary: More than 6.4 million LinkedIn passwords have leaked to the Web after an apparent hack. Though some login details are encrypted, users are advised to change their passwords immediately. A user on a Russian forum has claimed to have...
Today was a big day for Windows Updates – one of our XP machines got 20 critical update, there were 21 on a windows 7 machine with MS Office installed and 13 for a machine without MS Office. This is a larger than normal number of windows updates – and as...
Once a week (if I remember) – I try to check the following items to see if they are as up-to-date as they can be… Adobe Reader Java Adobe Flash Player These three pieces of software are the three top-most exploited programs on my PC (and yours) –...
Everyone knows they should run Windows Updates regularly – right? Well, once in a while, Windows Updates just STOP working – or you get an update that just will not apply. Our first recommendation is to ensure that you choose the “MANUAL”...
By Greg Hewitt-Long One of the most common ways a piece of malware enters your computer is by exploiting an out-of-date piece of software on your computer – that software can be the operating system itself, Adobe Flash, Acrobat Reader, or Java – to name...
by Stephen Cobb ESET Security Evangelist The consumer cloud expanded again this week with the addition of Google Drive to more familiar brands like Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive, Apple iCloud, and Amazon Cloud Drive. Unfortunately, most of these cloud-based file storage...