by Joseph Forbes | Jun 14, 2016 | Blog Entry, Emailed, INTERNET, PRIVACY, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
Email is here to stay Despite the growing popularity of applications like WhatsApp, email is still considered to be the most important communication tool for online workers 1and is likely to grow in importance over the next five years2. A problem with email however is...
by Joseph Forbes | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog Entry, EDUCATION, Microsoft Security Response Center, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
The product key is a usually unique, alphanumeric code of any length required by many software programs during installation. Product keys are also sometimes called CD keys, key codes, product codes, or installation keys. Most software, including some operating systems...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 18, 2013 | Microsoft's Malware Protection Center
Java exploits represent a common attack vector used by the bad guys to infiltrate vulnerable computers via the web browser. We wrote about the rise of Java exploits as early as 2010, and we haven’t seen that trend decline. In fact, in the first quarter of...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 18, 2013 | Microsoft's Malware Protection Center
This morning, we released Volume 14 of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv14). This new report studies our findings on trends in the threat landscape based on data from more than 1 billion systems worldwide, focusing on data collected in the second half...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 16, 2013 | Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SOFTWARE, Technicals
from Microsoft® Malware Protection Center by msft-mmpc We recently came across an interesting threat that we detect as TrojanDownloader:Win32/Nemim.gen!A. This particular malware is a trojan downloader, and is capable of deleting its downloaded component files in a...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 15, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, SECURITY, Web Hosting
Researchers at Sucuri have found that version 4.0 of the WordPress Social Media Widget, also referred to as social-media-widget, has been injecting spam advertisements into sites. It is recommended that anyone using the widget, which has over 900,000 users, remove or...
