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Ransom ware has to be the highest risk associated to any personal or business computer data in this decade. It is simple in its method and sinister in its attack. How’s it work? It arrives as an email with an attachment, once opened it runs a program then proceeds to encrypt all data files on the computer or located networks. The encryption is so high it would take too long to crack by force. Who gets these emails? Even we get ransom ware...

From April 21st, websites that look and perform better on websites are appearing higher on mobile search results. Google has even created a Mobile-Friendly test where you can see if your (and your competitor’s) website passes the list of criteria. Google changes will give the users relevant and high quality search results that are optimized for their devices. Why did my site not pass? The main reasons why your website wouldn’t pass the test is...

  Codes we live by, laws we follow, and computers that move too fast to care.   by Vivek Wadhwa Employers can get into legal trouble if they ask interviewees about their religion, sexual preference, or political affiliation. Yet they can use social media to filter out job applicants based on their beliefs, looks, and habits. Laws forbid lenders from discriminating on the basis of race, gender, and sexuality. Yet they can refuse to give a loan...

For a long time, Mac OS users believed they were safe, that there was no malware for their system. As recent as April 2012 and the flashback attack on over 700,000 Apple PCs, it is clear that attackers also have the Macintosh in their crosshairs. AV-TEST has tested 18 antivirus products for Mac and finds some of them truly superb – others are really horrible. Security Suites for Mac OS X: A few of the products slow down the system when copying....

Cryptolocker, Gameover Zeus, and the nasty new strains of computer viruses holding our machines hostage.               By   Victor Kotsev If you are running a PC with the Windows operating system on it, you may want to consider  another backup–security experts fear the return, perhaps as early as this week, of a vicious computer virus that locks people out of their computers and demands ransom. A massive international operation at the...