Microsoft Windows Vista Support Ends Today!
Microsoft Calls ‘End of Life’ on Windows Vista Operating System What Does This Mean? Windows Vista has come to the end of its product support lifecycle after completing five successful years. …
Microsoft Word Zero-Day Exploit
There’s a new zeroday attack in the wild that’s surreptitiously installing malware on fully-patched computers. It does so by exploiting a vulnerability in most or all versions of Microsoft Word. …
Verizon Announces Plans to Install Spyware on All Its Android Phones | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Within days of Congress repealing online privacy protections, Verizon has announced new plans to install software on customers’ devices to track what apps customers have downloaded. With this spyware, Verizon will …
Opera just added a free VPN to its browser for anonymous internet access | The Verge
While Opera may still be a very small percentage of our clients choice for browser – they have set a pretty solid bar. VPN proxies and tunneling isn’t anything …
Phishing email that knows your address
BBC Radio 4’s team investigate a new phishing scam which entices users to click on malware by claiming they owe money to UK firms. Source: Phishing email that knows your …
New ransomware installs in boot record, encrypts hard disk
A new type of malware has been described, one that takes crypto-extortion to a new level. While most cryptographic ransomware variants are selective about what they encrypt—leaving the computer usable to …