If you’re having trouble loading a website, one of the first pieces of advice any tech expert will give you is to clear your browser cache. But what is a cache, why should you clear it and, most importantly, how do you clear it?
Many offices use email as a critical communication tool, but it’s easy for your inbox to become a source of stress. You have important business messages, useless newsletters and unending spam vying for your attention. It’s no wonder Adobe discovered people spend an average of 3.2 hours per day checking their work email. Don’t let…
INTRODUCTION: The list post is one of the most popular and readable blog formats on the web. It is composed of — you guessed it — a list, and includes short explanatory paragraphs about each item. Use your introduction as a way to tell the reader how this collection of ideas will help them. Keep…
With major data breaches recently affecting many big businesses, data security is more important than ever. Data breaches could cost your company a huge amount of money, and also damage your company’s reputation, so it’s vital to establish some data security best practices to protect sensitive data and reassure customers that their private information is…
Talk of airborne, unmanned hacking devices has come to light after an email exchange between a Boeing subsidiary and the Hacking Team, an Italian malware manufacturer, was leaked. The proposed drones would be able to invade Wi-Fi networks and take control of any users on the network.
In light of the breach of the Italian security company known as the Hacking Team, Microsoft has published an urgent security update for Windows in order to patch a dangerous zero-day exploit. The Hacking Team data breach has disclosed a huge number of vulnerabilities, including one for Adobe Flash.
After Facebook’s chief security officer has called for the death of Adobe Flash Player, Mozilla decided to actively block the plugin on Firefox. When it was brought to world’s attention once again that Flash is extremely vulnerable, Mozilla made the decision to block it until there was an Adobe Flash update that addressed security issues.
Although CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware has been around for a while now, we’ve recently seen a surge in the number of PCs infected. Lately, many CryptoWall 3.0 infections have come from malicious spam (malspam) emails and the Angler Exploit Kit, a software package that contains easy-to-use attacks against vulnerabilities in browsers such as Chrome, Internet Explorer…
The latest update to the Google Chrome web browser, version 42, now blocks Java, Silverlight and other plugins. However, not all is lost. As long as you remember to update Java, you can continue to utilize all of Google Chrome’s features. As a security measure, Google has blocked NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API) plugins, including Java,…
Our world was decidedly simpler when there was no omnipresent threat of cyber-terror or cyber-vandalism. Today’s computer world is not the happy go-lucky world of developers dedicated to opening up new streams of communication. No, the digital world over the past few years has gone a bit rogue.