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Attention Graphic Designers: It’s Time to Secure Your Canva Credentials
Online graphic design tools are extremely useful when it comes to creating resumes, social media graphics, invitations, and other designs...
Attention Red Dead Redemption 2 Players: Dodge This New Download Scam
Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 has struck a popular chord with many online gamers. Unfortunately, the Western-themed action-adventure game...
Attention YouTubers: Protect Your Account From Being Hacked
Did you know that YouTube has 23 million content creators worldwide? Well, it turns out that many of these video...
Aussie Children Have 2nd Highest Rate of Cyberbullying, Time To Focus on Digital Parenting
Whether it was bush fires, Covid, floods, or the Ukraine conflict, the news agenda over the last two years has...
Aussies Fear Snakes, Spiders and Getting Hacked
Fears and phobias. We all have them. But what are your biggest ones? I absolutely detest snakes but spiders don’t...
Australia’s Most Dangerous Celebrities of 2016
Cybercriminals are crafty types. They like to think of themselves as one step ahead of us mere mortals. However, one...
AutoIt and Malware: What’s the Connection?
During the last couple of weeks I’ve come across three malware samples packed using compiled AutoIt scripts, so I decided...
Automatic App Installation from Google Play Poses Big Risk
Android users usually download and install applications from the Google Play store through several interactions with the service–including viewing the...
Automotive Security Moves Into Cyber Realm
The focus on the security of automobiles and the transportation sector as a whole (planes, trains, etc.) is steadily increasing....
Autorooting Malware Gives Hackers the Green Light into Your Device
It wasn’t that long ago when discovering new products, restaurants and everything in between came down to asking our circle...
AV Test Android Results 2018
2017 marked not only an explosion in mobile malware but also showed dramatic changes in the mobile landscape, setting up...
AV-Comparatives Crowns McAfee as 2024’s Leader in Online Protection and Speed
McAfee Total Protection users can feel even more secure online knowing that AV-Comparatives has named it the best in 2024...
Avaya Deskphone: Decade-Old Vulnerability Found in Phone’s Firmware
Avaya is the second largest VOIP solution provider (source) with an install base covering 90% of the Fortune 100 companies...
Avoid a Security Endgame: Learn About the Latest “Avengers” Scam
Marvel Studio’s $2.2 billion box-office hit “Avengers: Endgame” has quickly risen to the second-highest grossing film of all time in...
Avoid Being Scammed: How to Identify Fake Emails and Suspicious Links
Typos. Too-good-to-be-true offers. Urgent warnings. Scammers are getting smarter—and more convincing. New research from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reveals...
Avoid Falling Prey to Online Shopping Bait This Festive Season
For a moment, I thought this crazy friend of mine had finally lost it. She was staring at her laptop...
Avoid Making Costly Mistakes with Your Mobile Payment Apps
There used to be a time when one roommate split the cost of rent with another by writing a check. Who still owns a checkbook these days? Of...
AWS Outage Disrupts Major Apps Like Reddit and Snapchat—What Happened and How to Stay Safe
Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world’s largest cloud providers, recently experienced a major outage that disrupted popular websites...
Babuk Ransomware
Executive Summary Babuk ransomware is a new ransomware threat discovered in 2021 that has impacted at least five big enterprises,...
Babuk: Biting off More than they Could Chew by Aiming to Encrypt VM and *nix Systems?
Co-written with Northwave’s Noël Keijzer. Executive Summary For a long time, ransomware gangs were mostly focused on Microsoft Windows operating...
Back to school Tech Security for College Students
Some of us remember college dorm days, when students were envied if they had their own typewriter. These days, college...
Back to School: 5 Cybersecurity Habits to Teach Your Kids
With back-to-school time already here, cybersecurity should be at the forefront of every parent’s mind. Kids are exposed to more...
Back to School: Cybersecurity in the Classroom
It’s hard to believe that summer is coming to an end and that back-to-school time is around the corner. For...
Back to School: Tech Savvy vs. Cyber Savvy
The first day of school is right around the corner. The whole family is gearing up for a return to...
Back-to-School Cybersecurity 101: #RT2Win an A+ Worthy Prize
The days are getting shorter and your bags are (finally) unpacked from the annual family vacation. Summer is officially coming...
Back-to-School: Balancing Social Media & Mental Health
Wouldn’t it be nice if, along with grades for English, Science, and Algebra this year, our child’s report card included...
Back-to-School: Could Your Remote Learner Be Cyber Cheating?
Back-to-School: Could Your Remote Learner Be Cyber Cheating? As families across the country ramp up for the new school year,...
