If it ain't broke, don't fix it... Is the most common response I get, whenever I ask IT administrators and executives why they don't patch their systems. The funny thing is that the response is…

The latest Government Security Breaches Survey found that nearly three-quarters of small organizations reported a security breach in the last year (2015) which is a 13% increase from the 2013 and…

If you read this blog regularly, you’ve seen a few posts which mention ‘software vulnerabilities’, especially on browsers. We all take browsers for granted and use them every day for social…

The latest variant of the Dyre virus was discovered by Trend Micro in early 2015. Dyre is financial malware that targets banks and uses propagation and evasion techniques to reproduce itself and…

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded Galois, Inc. with a $1.7 million dollar contract to defend against large and sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. This…

Ameriforge Group Inc. has recently filed a lawsuit against their cyber insurance provider, Federal Insurance Co., for refusing to cover a $480,000 loss following an email scam that impersonated the…

SplashData’s, annual review of passwords, “Worst Passwords 2015”, has identified the most commonly used passwords. The list is shameful. After over 20 years of using the Internet and over 50 years of…

Many years ago when setting up a new workstation the most important task in the entire process even before checking for updates, applying patches and updating device drivers was installing a…

There is a wide range of software available to download from the internet. A lot of that software is free and available on a number of different websites. It can be difficult to determine what…