22February2013
Posted by Kirsten Dunlaevy kdunlaevy@gmail.com
One of the latest massive hack attacks has hit not one, but three
major companies in recent weeks. The attack is believed to have come from an Eastern
European hacker gang, and was apparently launched to target software
vulnerabilities with the goal of stealing company secrets and users’ personal
information which could be sold on the black market. The software
vulnerabilities were in fact due to a well-known security hole in Oracle’s Java
software.
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21February2013
Posted by Kirsten Dunlaevy kdunlaevy@gmail.com
If you read this blog on a regular basis, you know that
cybercriminals always find a way to get into anything and everything to cause a
security threat. And internet advertising is something they’re really into.
This is a tricky one, because we’re all so used to seeing ads online, popping
up out of nowhere, telling us about things we didn’t know we needed.
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20February2013
Posted by Kirsten Dunlaevy kdunlaevy@gmail.com
Can you remember what the internet
was like in 2005? And what about those massive phones and laptops we used to
lug around with us? It is truly amazing how far technology has come in the last
8 years, which is why here at BullGuard we are so concerned about the safety of
electronic health records. Take the U.S. Government for example, the last time
they issued guidelines for electronic health records was in 2005, back when
phones were huge and Facebook was only a year old. Medical data protection is
way behind the times.
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15February2013
Posted by Kirsten Dunlaevy kdunlaevy@gmail.com
This is one major internet security issue
that you need to know about. At the end of January, forty-five different
organizations asked Skype to come clean about the real deal with Skype privacy.
Is it private or not? Is it possible that governments and organizations could
be monitoring your Skype conversations?
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14February2013
Posted by Sir Winston winston@bullguard.com
Sir Winston here! As we’re all still getting
to know one another, you probably aren’t aware that I am a BIG romantic at
heart. After all, what’s not to love about love?
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