A computer virus is a type of malicious code or program written to alter the way a computer operates and is designed to spread from one computer to another.
A computer virus is a type of malicious code or program written to alter the way a computer operates and is designed to spread from one computer to another.
Malvertising is referred to as malicious advertising and involves threat actors injecting malicious code into digital advertisements that may infect computers and mobile devices of unsuspecting victims visiting legitimate, reputable websites. Check out how you can protect yourself against malvertising in our new blog.
More and more we are observing businesses reporting significant losses caused by cyber insider threat actors. These cases often involve former or disgruntled employees using their privileges such as access to company networks, remote login credentials, and administrative permissions to harm companies. Cyber insider threat actors most often are motivated by revenge, but they also conduct attacks to profit financially from stolen information, gain a competitive edge at a new company, engage in extortion, or commit fraud through unauthorized sales and purchases.
Windows updates are not evil. While it is true that in the past Windows has released bad patches that seemingly do more harm than good, that is not the full story. Patches have been known to cause issues on Windows even prior to Windows 10. Just last year, a Windows 7 update caused networking to break on some computers, leaving many machines offline and unable to connect to the internet.
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