Category Archives: Consumer Alerts

Small and midsize businesses are targeted most often by hackers

“SMBs are not just targets of cybercrime, they are its principal target” says a U.S. Security and Exchange Commission report from last fall. In fact, the majority of all targeted cyberattacks last year were directed at SMBs. The New York Times, in its article No Business Too Small to Be Hacked, said that 60% of all online attacks […]

Avast for Business: Zero to One Million endpoints protected in less than a year

  Since the launch of Avast for Business, a free, cloud-managed security solution, in February 2015, organizations worldwide have deployed it to protect more than one million PCs, Macs, and servers from cyberattacks and data breaches. Avast for Business is successful across diverse sectors Avast for Business is extremely popular with Education, Non-profits, Retail, Healthcare, IT […]

Internet de las cosas: ¿Qué necesitas hacer para protegerte de esta revolución tecnológica?

La Internet de las cosas(IoT) está 100% presente en los aparatos físicos que utilizamos cada día.     Utilizando aparatos conectados a internet amplía nuestra capacidad de controlar y monitorear nuestro entorno en tiempo real. El internet de las cosas literalmente está cambiando nuestras vidas. “La internet de las cosas tiene principalmente el potencial de […]

Microsoft end support for older versions of Internet Explorer

After January 12th, only the most current version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical support and security updates. People using Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 will no longer receive security or technical updates after Tuesday, January 12th. This means that the older versions of Internet Explorer can be […]

Android security updates roll out to fight “Stagefright” type bug

Android Mediaserver vulnerability looks similar to the Stagefright bug. Android owners may recall the Stagefright bug, the “worst ever Android vulnerability yet discovered”. That malware exposed a billion (that’s nearly every) Android device on the face of the earth to malware. The latest critical bug has similarities to Stagefright, but exists in Android’s mediaserver. Google […]

Notes from the 2016 AT&T Developer Summit

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For nearly 10 years, AT&T has been bringing an annual developer conference to their partners and collaborators. This year, they creatively chose to combine their conference with a hackathon in order to encourage the participation of budding developers and to support young talent in achieving career-related goals. This year’s conference and hackathon, which took place […]

Internet of Things: What you need to do to protect yourself

The Internet of Things (IoT) join together physical devices that we use every day with information technology. Using internet-connected devices expands our ability to control and monitor in the real world.  The IoT is literally changing our lives. The Internet of Things has the potential to fundamentally shift the way we interact with our surroundings. The ability to monitor […]

Mutating mobile malware and advanced threats are on the horizon as we approach 2016

Yesterday, we walked you through a set of our 2016 predictions in regards to home router security, wearables and the Internet of Things. In addition to these important topics, mobile threats are not something that should be ignored as we move into 2016. “Most people don’t realize that mobile platforms are not really all that safer […]

In 2016, your home will be a target for hackers

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Your home and the devices in it will be a viable target for cybercrooks in 2016. Back in the good ol’ days of the early 2000s until just a few years ago, all we had to be concerned about was security on our desktop computers and laptop. In the intervening years, mobile devices have become […]

Mr. Robot was our favorite show of 2015

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Back in May, I pulled my new copy of Entertainment Weekly out of the mailbox and flipped through it quickly, as I usually do before sitting down to read the whole thing. An article about an unusual premier of a new TV show called Mr. Robot caught my eye. The cyberthriller’s pilot episode was set […]