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What Pippa Middleton can teach us about iCloud security
from Graham Cluley

Pippa Middleton is the latest in a long line of celebrities to have her online accounts broken into by criminals, and private photographs stolen. Have you properly secured your iCloud account? The post What Pippa Middleton can teach us about iCloud security appeared first on WeLiveSecurity. [...]

Mon, Sep 26, 2016, Continue reading at the source

What is…an exploit?
from Paul Ducklin

Most cyberattacks involve criminals exploiting some sort of security weakness. That weakness could be down to a poorly chosen password, a user who falls for a fake login link, or an attachment that someone opened without thinking. However, in the field of computer security, the word exploit has a specific meaning: an exploit is a way of abusing a software bug to bypass one or more security protections that are in place. Software bugs [...]

Mon, Sep 26, 2016, Continue reading at the source

Encryption decoded
from totaltech

When it comes to proper IT management of your business, encrypting files can seem like a daunting task. For most employees, it seems difficult to use. You might be asking, “What is encryption anyways?” It sounds scary technical. Simply put, encryption locks files on hard drives, portable devices and files sent via email from being […] [...]

Wed, Aug 03, 2016, Continue reading at the source