The April 2019 Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft are causing conflicts with several Anti-Virus products including ones from Avast and Sophos.
Meltdown and Spectre are bugs in the architecture of most modern processors produced since 1995. Meltdown is specific to Intel processors while Spectre affects Intel, AMD and ARM processors. These bugs can be found in desktops, laptops, mobile devices, IoT devices and even cloud virtual machines where the underlying hardware is using an affected processor.…
Tech Support Scams Some scammers will call you and claim to be computer technicians with a well-known and established company such as Microsoft or Apple. Other scammers can send pop-up messages, emails that will notify the user that the computer is infected and has problems. The scammers will claim to be from “tech support” calling…
Shared office spaces have become very popular for startups and entrepreneurs. You can find them in most downtown areas. The range of amenities they offer differs greatly but they all have what is absolutely required for a business: space for a computer and internet access. We see a lot of these users plugging in the…
Adobe just released yet another announcement of a vulnerability in their Flash application that applies to all versions and all operating systems. The announcement explains that there is a vulnerability that can allow an attacker to take control of an affected system. The vulnerability has been seen “in the wild” which means attackers are currently…