I told you so
I hate to ba an I told you so, but it appears that I was right at the start of the year that a platform that would see a rise in attack profile, would be the Mac.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096822.stm item about the latest threat.
Don't leave it to chance, if you have a mac you are at risk, get some protection on it, and do it today.
Labels: computer security, limbtec, mac, threat
Mac Security
Well, for those who have spoken to me in the last 4 months, I keep stating that the mass of macs out there is leading up to an attack in some way. Normally followed by 'we use a mac we are secure'
Well try reading
this blog post Really, Macs are able to be
breached. The time is nigh, honestly soon there will be an attack, or an outbreak that will hit the mac community. The point raised (the reason why Macs haven't been attacked is it just isn't worth it due to market share) in the article above are still valid but only just.
Labels: apple, computer security, mac, windows
EFS
Watch out what you do with
EFS, we have just completed
un-encrypting a small businesses data, after the keys were lost, due to a virus.
Be warned as not every
de-
cryptions work, we had access to everything we needed, and only failed to decrypt 1 file.
If you do use it, export your keys so you can always use them to recover your data.
Labels: computer security, efs, recovery, windows
We have spent the vast majority of the last ten days cleaning up computers, from worm and viruses. Some have been the worm mentioned in the title above, linked from the BBC.
Simple steps to keep your computer secure.
- Ensure you patch your software, not only the Microsoft ones, but from any vendor.
- Make sure you have security software installed
- Make sure this software is up to date
- Ensure you carry out a full scan at least once a week
- Make sure your firewall is configured correctly and turned on
This will make it harder for any attack, What we find is often these threats come in through a Peer 2 Peer product (such as Limewire).
We are aiming to blog twice a week from now on, hopefully on Wednesday, and Sunday. But then again
Labels: blog, computer security, limbtec, virus, worms
