Britain’s National Health Service Following the global cyber/ransomware attack this week, it transpires that the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is still using Windows XP on a reported 90% of its systems, even though XP has not officially been supported by Microsoft since April 2014. […]
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Just recently I worked on a client’s Windows 10 laptop which had fallen victim to two nasty and persistent infections. One was the Web-start.org browser hijacker and the other a rogue PC optimizer program which randomly initiated a scareware popup. The first thing I did
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DDoS Attacks On October 21st, a massive Cyber-Attack impacted major websites such as Airbnb, Etsy, Netflix, Reddit, Spotify and Twitter. The nature of the attack is part of a growing trend of Dedicated Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that utilize infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
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Nagware Removed! Rejoice, you Win 10 holdouts! Microsoft has released an update for Window 7 and Windows 8.1 that removes the Get Windows 10 (GWX) advertising App and other elements related to their underhanded tactics of prompting users to accept Windows 10 upgrades. This is
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System Restore is a feature in Microsoft Windows that allows the user to revert their computer’s state (including system files, installed applications, Windows Registry, and system settings) to that of a previous point in time ~ Wikipedia I peruse a lot of articles on tech
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In February this year we reported a situation whereby well-known computer help site, Bleeping Computer, was being sued by the Enigma Software Group (ESG) over a post which described ESG’s SpyHunter software in less than flattering terms. ESG’s lawsuit claims that its reputation was damaged
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Go grab a tissue and I’ll share a story with you, and this is one you should definitely read (at least to find out what 3-2-1 means)… A few weeks ago I was a party in a sad conversation, which had all the attributes of
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Security expert and leading investigative journalist Brian Krebs, in collaboration with security professional Daniel Gallagher, has recently discovered that a popular remote administration tool known as “Orcus RAT” is actually exhibiting the sort of behavior which is generally associated with a remote access trojan –
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Meet Mrs Angry! A few days into my motorcycle trip to the north of Argentina earlier this month, when all thoughts of computer-related mishaps had practically been vaporized, I was enjoying a welcome and very cold beer in a small village half way up the
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Why Use Extensions? If you are on the internet a lot, and most people are, then why not do it with the right tools available. Now that Microsoft Edge will be introducing extensions, that means that every major browser out there has extensions that can
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