Staying anonymous online is becoming a difficult thing to achieve, but to be honest, for the majority of people, it’s not really something we should be too worried about. There are some things h...
What’s on your network? Whilst I understand that not everyone is a computer geek, or has the time to manage their home network properly, I firmly believe that everyone should have a good grasp o...
In this post, I’ll take a look at how you can check to see what issues might be present in your IT setup. Nessus Nessus is a professional vulnerability scanner made by a company called Tenable w...
In this installment of my mini-series on protecting your online activity, I’m going to discuss VPNs. What is a VPN? A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that allows you to create a se...
In this 2nd installment of my mini-series about staying safe in an ever-increasing online world, I’m going to take a look at antivirus & anti-malware solutions. Anti-malware vs Antivirus The...
So far in my 365 days of blogs, the biggest majority of my posts have been about the threats that face us when living in a digital world. So I thought it time to focus a bit more on the defensive side...
Ransomware is big business, but for some threat actors, it’s not big enough. A large number of ransomware attacks tend to use the same encryption algorithms, or ones which have only been slightl...
Federal agents in the US have arrested a man from Peekskill, New York who is suspected of being the administrator of the stolen-data sharing website breachForums. The administrator who uses the online...
If you’ve been following my blogs over the last few months, you’ll have spotted a recurring theme in many of them – ransomware. It’s a scourge of modern Inetrnet life and it ca...
A new RAT (Remote Access Trojan) has come on the scene which communicates via SMTP – The Simple Message Transfer Protocol to avoid detection by security tools. SMTP is vital in any network if yo...