Microsoft Warns Users Over PowerPoint Zero Day, Releases Fixit
Microsoft has warned Windows users that cyber criminals are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability using malicious PowerPoint documents. The vulnerability affects all versions of Windows except Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has already released a Fixit tool that neuters known PowerPoint attacks but there is a risk that new attacks may yet spring up. The fix, found […]
Get Safe Online Week: Help Yourself And Others With These 20+1 Tips
Today the UK sees the start of the ninth annual Get Safe Online Week. The initiative is designed to raise awareness of all things ‘cyber’ in an effort to protect home users from the ever present online threats of fraud, identity theft, harassment and other equally serious issues. During the week Get Safe Online will be issuing tips and […]
Brain And The Next 28 Years Of Malware (Infographic)
Part of getting older is looking at the next generation and marveling at how easy they have things, or their lack of knowledge of key things we grew up with. Take the record player for example, or even the cassette tape – my kids don’t know what either of those are, and my youngest hasn’t […]
Poor Password Habits Cost Businesses £261 Per Employee Per Year
Poor password habits are, on average, costing businesses £261 per employee each year as staff struggle to manage a growing number of login credentials. According to new research from Centrify, an average sized business with 500 employees is losing £130,500 per year through lost productivity. Respondents to the survey of 1,000 UK workers were asked […]
Microsoft CEO: Women Working In IT Shouldn't Ask For More Pay
Men and women – just in case you hadn’t noticed, I’d like to point out that they’re different. Shocking news, I know, but that’s just the way it is and it ain’t gonna change this side of some pretty far out genetic experimentation, so get used to it already. That said, the differences between the […]
Just Given Up Your Eldest Child For Free WiFi? Perhaps I Can Interest You In This Tech Preview?
‘Ello guv’nor, I heard you sold your kid for WiFi. Perhaps I could interest you in another good deal? It’s called tech for privacy and I know you’re gonna luv it. Having decided to pass on the logical numbering of the next rendition of Windows, Microsoft’s new operating system will be called Windows 10. In […]
Ex-Spy Chief Warns Over Child Tracking, Offers Little Advice. Says Government Snooping No Concern. Impressed?
The increased use of mobile phone tracking technology is not helping to keep children safer, according to former spy chief Sir John Scarlett, who says that GPS may actually put them at greater risk. The ex-head of MI6 said: “You’ve got to know what your children are doing, it’s very difficult to know exactly what […]
Security As A Product Feature: Bank Customers Get Savvy
In years gone by customers often chose one bank and stayed with it for life. Certainly when I was younger, it was traditional to go with the same bank as your parents, or the one that was nearest to where you lived (especially important for me as I lived in a village that was many miles […]
GiveADay: Charities Set To Benefit From Generous, Skilled Security Professionals
Up to 100 IT and data security professionals, including C-level executives, have signed up to GiveADay, a non-profit organisation which looks to help charities with their IT, security and data privacy needs. Charities such as Cancer Research, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Future First have already signed up ahead of the scheme’s official launch which […]
Companies Complacent Over BYOD Risks, Employees Yearn For Disconnect
According to a new study by TEKsystems, the exposure to risk is much the same today as it was in 2013 but, if anything, companies have become more complacent where BYOD is concerned, demonstrating less vigilance in the areas of management and mitigation. TEKsystems market research manager Jason Hayman: “The growing deficiency of BYOD policy […]