Understanding Malware: How It Works, Attack, And Infect A Computer
Malware is derived from two words “malicious” and “software” combined together into a single word. This often masks itself into other forms whereas it could look and sound legit and convincing to attract you to voluntarily accept to infiltrate a computer system. Since the 1970s, malware has been a threat to many individuals and organizations […]
Cyber Security Is More Important Than Ever
There are a lot of lessons to be learned coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic and they cover anything and everything. What was normal back in January may no longer exist and no one knows quite what business as normal will be. When something like this happens there comes a time for reflection which hopefully […]
How Tech Hurt Us In The 2010s
This past decade saw a lot of great technological developments. You probably know what we’re talking about but it also saw a lot of bad. As with anything you have to take the good with the bad and of course life is not all skittles and rainbows but tech has made our lives miserable in […]
Ransomware Can Do Damage
Your security online is very important as a scourge of ransomware spreads around the Internet. What it can do is pretty scary but for the most part, the good news is that it really has never threatened people’s lives, only their livelihoods. That was until this past July in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ransomware In The […]
Don’t Get Spear Phished!
We’ve seen a rise in recent years of ransomware attacks. It’s affected individuals, companies and even governments. There are many different ways that a criminal can go about executing a ransomware attack but one of the more common methods in recent years is spear phishing. Today we examine what exactly this is and look at […]
A different response following a cyber attack
We read a lot of stories in the news about business and government entities being targeted with malware or ransomware attacks. Some of those entities have not taken their cyber security seriously and are reaping what they have sown but others just simply do not have the resources to do so. These attacks can be […]
Ransomeware targeting robots
If you have never been hit with a ransomware attack consider yourself lucky. These attacks cost the victim a great deal of time, money and frustration as they deal with it and in some cases there is no resolution. This has hit many people’s computers and has also spread to people’s phones and now it […]