The very popular CCleaner utility from Piriform(owned by Avast) has become a victim of a modification which means that it has been infected with malware from the vendors own site. It just shows that even relatively well ...
Computer and internet security is in the news a lot these days – and for good reason. And one of the areas that has had mixed press in the last few years is digital certificates and encryption. HTTPS:// Hopefully w...
Continuing our security theme into the new year; we are reminding people that keeping your website platform up to date is vital. The news article detailed below shows what can happen when websites are not kept patched in...
We reported that a serious security flaw had been found in certain Netgear routers https://test.siliconbullet.com/netgear-routers-at-risk/ Netgear has now released patches, please use the Netgear link below to find out ...
It turns out that a couple of recent leading Netgear routers are at risk of being exploited due to a severe security flaw. Technical details here: https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/582384 The netgear models known to be aff...
As a result of the router hack attack targeting TalkTalk customers using certain routers and some PostOffice internet users too, it seems that a follow-up attack may have divulged your home wifi network name and password...
In our post a few days ago we touched upon an internet outage at Deutsche Telecom (https://test.siliconbullet.com/another-day-another-security-risk-is-growing-is-your-router-at-risk/); well, now Talk-Talk and Post Office...
Dear Android phone user, hopefully you have played it safe and keep your phone up to date with updates, and installed apps from the curated Google App Store – “Play Store” – which should mean that...
Unfortunately many consumer oriented home user routers are designed and manufactured to a low price and that also means low margins, which means that often these cheap devices are not terribly well designed with security...
Another day, another security flaw; we all have to be vigilant and suspicious. http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2478088/locky-ransomware-being-spread-via-facebook-messenger