by ray | Feb 19, 2015 | Security
Russian criminals have stolen more than 1.2 billion Internet usernames and passwords, and the odds are decent that some of yours might be among them. There’s no need to panic at this point — Hold Security, the firm that discovered the theft, says the gang...
by ray | Feb 19, 2015 | Security
A U.S. security firm has uncovered what appears to be the largest Internet security breach in recent memory, conducted by a group of Russia-based hackers. According to Milwaukee-based firm Hold Security, which conducted an 18-month investigation into the breach, the...
by ray | Feb 19, 2015 | Security
A newly discovered security bug nicknamed Heartbleed has exposed millions of usernames, passwords and reportedly credit card numbers — a major problem that hackers could have exploited during the more than two years it went undetected. It’s unlike most of the breaches...
by ray | Feb 17, 2015 | Cloud Tools, Security, Tech News
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden dropped his two cents on file storage security in an interview with The Guardian on Thursday. He thinks Dropbox, the cloud storage firm with over 200 million users, is “hostile to privacy,” and urged people to switch to what he calls...
by ray | Feb 16, 2015 | Security
Apple has finally expanded an extra security feature to guard iMessages and FaceTime video chats. The feature, called two-step authentication, provides an added layer of protection against hackers. With two-step authentication enabled, logging into your iCloud account...
by ray | Feb 13, 2015 | Security
Shellshock, the newly discovered vulnerability that allows attackers to inject code into your machine, puts your Mac or Linux at a serious risk for malicious attacks. Here’s how to test if your machine is vulnerable. Shellshock uses a bash script to access your...
