I heard from a sysadmin friend of mine that they have disabled windows script host on all their workstations to protect them from malware that exploits local scrips. This sounded interesting to me so I wanted to check it out. The Windows script host is responsible for running local scrips on your computer including JScript Continue Reading »
PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy and it is a public key encryption protocol. It is used for text communications like e-mail. It can encrypt a message so only the intended recipient can view the contents. PGP can also be used to sign a message and verify that it really did come from the person Continue Reading »
Over the last few months, the companies I work for have been getting hammered with spoofed e-mails. We have had people claiming to be vice presidents. People asking for wire transfers and direct deposit changes. We even had one spoofer requesting copies of social security numbers. We also have spoofers who claim to have hacked Continue Reading »
It is time to change your passwords! 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of addresses along with passwords have been found circulating on hacking forums. That is BILLION with a B! This is the biggest data breach to date. This data is very likely actively being used to hijack accounts around the internet. To break it down some Continue Reading »
Do you ever wonder about your privacy while using your phone? Our smartphones hold a lot of information about us. We take them with us everywhere and they are full of private details about our day to day life. So it was no surprise people became upset when they found out how much Apple and Continue Reading »
