A new report has confirmed what security experts have suspected for a long time: Users who have not removed administrative rights from their Windows users accounts are at risk of getting critical malware attacks. Ninety-two percent of all security vulnerabilities reported as severe by Microsoft could have been avoided if user accounts didn’t have Admin Rights. That’s according to Avecto, an enterprise-security company based in Manchester, England. Avecto further said that users who...

Almost every site you use online requires the use of a password. While you might be able to read articles online without one, when you want to make a comment, it is becoming more and more likely that you will need to login to the site with a username and password. Anonymous-type comments are increasingly becoming a thing of the past. Liability issues and hate speech legislation are often behind the decisions made by webmasters who now require this when setting up comment sections for their websites. Because...

In 2014, 500 million yahoo accounts were hacked into and information stolen. Unfortunately the breach wasn’t reported until the fall of 2016, the company reported that a state sponsored reporter was one that was behind the attack. The information was vital and included, dates of birth, mobile numbers, names, and even email addresses.  Unfortunately more and more information is coming out still nearly 5 months after the announcement and over 2 years after the breach. At the start of August...