Fake Anti-Virus

December 2nd, 2011 | by | internet, it, security

Dec
02

As an IT professional, Fake Anti-Virus software is one of the most proliffic issues we come accross on a week to week basis. At best its annoying, at worst, its dangerous and mroe importatntly from a support point of view, it can be very dificult to remove.
Sophos have just release a very interesting whitepaper about Fake AV, how it gets installed, what it does and how to spot it. They obvously want you to buy the Sophos software as the answer, but appart from that its a very useful document.
Click here to register for the download in pdf format.

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Top 25 ‘Bad Passwords’ of 2011

November 21st, 2011 | by | security

Nov
21

Just a quick one.
I came accross this via the news aggregator on my tablet earlier on today. Its a list of the top 25 worst passwords used this year from the Huffington Post website. Take a quick look and see if your password is on it. Needless to say that if it is, you *REALLY* need to change it. :)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/18/top-25-worst-passwords-of-2011_n_1101710.html

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