Announcements

Microsoft Patches Outlook.com to Fix Recent Spam Flood

  • 1st June 2016
Earlier today, reports surfaced about a giant spam flood that managed to bypass Outlook and Hotmail's spam filters, drowning users in Viagra ads and Russian bride ads. The issue started on the night between May 31 and June 1, 2016, and has slowly escalated until it reached peak annoyance during mid-day today. Angry users flocked to show ...
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Now you can see if your LinkedIn or other accounts were hacked here

  • 25th May 2016
Now you can see if your LinkedIn or other accounts were hacked.Were you a LinkedIn user in 2012 or earlier? Email addresses and passwords on more than 164 million users were stolen in the massive hack. Now you can see if you were caught up in the breach. Security expert Troy Hunt, who runs breach notification site Have I Been Pwned, ...
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Information Stealer "Fareit" Abuses PowerShell

  • 28th April 2016
Researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a new variant of the Fareit malware being delivered to victims using Windows PowerShell. Fareit, also known as Pony Loader, is an information stealer malware family that has been making rounds since 2011. It recently joined the long list of threats that abuse the Windows PowerShell task automation and ...
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Apple: WARNING: Software update #031-51913 breaks Ethernet port on most Macs (BCM5701 driver)

  • 27th February 2016
UPDATE FROM APPLE: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6672**************************************************************Apple has pulled this bad update. This update installed on any Mac today makes ethernet ports stop working!  DO NOT INSTALL!!! I suggest running softwareupdate --schedule off as root to disable updates until Apple ...
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