Malicious plugins that hide in plain sight and act as backdoors are used by attackers to gain and maintain a foothold on WordPress websites, and to upload web shells and scripts for brute-forcing other sites. For instance, some of these…
Read More
A security vulnerability has been found in the popular file compression program 7-Zip, update your version now. A vulnerability that can allow arbitrary code execution has been found in in 7-Zip that effects all 7-Zip versions prior to the 18.05…
Read More
Cloudflare has just introduced its new DNS service. Here’s how to take advantage of it to increase your internet speed and privacy. Appropriately enough, Cloudflare announced the new service on the first of April (The DNS is 1.1.1.1 – 4…
Read More
If you use Windows 10 then you’re probably relying on the built-in antivirus and security software called Windows Defender. But if you want something a little more powerful and feature-rich, then have a look at Sophos Home. Sophos is a…
Read More
You have probably been reading recently about the way that millions of users’ information on Facebook was harvested for marketing and political purposes. A subsequent story has also revealed that Facebook stores details of all the people you contact and…
Read More
If you have a physical disability that makes it difficult to use a traditional PC keyboard, or you look after someone who does, take a look at Click2Speak. It’s an on-screen keyboard, with predictive text that works like a mobile…
Read More
Security researchers have discovered a massive continuously growing malware campaign that has already infected nearly 5 million mobile devices worldwide. Dubbed RottenSys, the malware that disguised as a ‘System Wi-Fi service’ app came pre-installed on millions of brand new smartphones…
Read More
DaVinci Resolve is a video editor for Windows which is hugely powerful, and designed for use by professional film studios. It runs on a standard PC, so long as you have a modern graphics card and the necessary drivers for…
Read More
A massive malware outbreak that last week infected nearly half a million computers with cryptocurrency mining malware in just a few hours was caused by a backdoored version of popular BitTorrent client called MediaGet. Dubbed Dofoil (also known as Smoke…
Read More
We use an ad-blocker on our web browser. Not only does it block most ads, it also means that pages load much faster. Our ad blocker of choice has always been Ghostery. It works, and that’s pretty much all we…
Read More