Rootkits A rootkit is malicious code that loads before the operating system in order to avoid detection. This feature of rootkits makes them very difficult to remove because they have the ability to disable any installed anti-malware...
A computer virus is any type of malicious code that needs some type of user interaction in order to be installed and replicated. This is the key point you want to remember. Computer viruses need the user...
A trojan, also referred to as a “trojan horse” or RAT (Remote Access Tool), is a piece of seemingly harmless software that contains concealed malicious software. You click on it, install it, and everything seems OK. You...
Internet robots are known by a variety of names including spiders, crawlers, web robots, or just bots. They’re commonly used for repetitive work such as search engine indexing because they can perform these simple tasks more quickly...
Pay the ransom or lose your data forever The Atlanta Police Department recently lost dashcam footage going back years and so far the clean up cost has topped a hefty $9.5 million. That number could climb even...
Free public WiFi can be found in just about every cafe, restaurant, airport, and hotel these days. Unfortunately, few consider or even understand that these networks are often unsecure. That means that if you’re doing something that...
I recently wrote about how Google is no longer going to alert users that a site is secure. Instead, they’re going to alert users if a web page isn’t secure. This is because most sites nowadays use...
As the 16th century English father of empiricism Francis Bacon said, knowledge is power. I’m pretty sure that if Sir Francis were alive today he’d tell you that if you want to avoid getting hacked you need...