Month: May 2017

  • 39 Essential Google Search Operators Every SEO Ought to Know

    Some you probably know, but what about excluding multiple words or phrases?  What about finding words near each other?  Read the article to learn how this is done! In SEO, it’s often the little things that matter. After you’ve learned the basics, you can’t stop. You need to push yourself and learn more and more.…

  • WikiLeaks Reveals ‘Athena’ CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows

    More CIA spying tools… WikiLeaks has published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, detailing a spyware framework – which “provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers” – allegedly being used by the CIA that works against every version of Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, from Windows XP to Windows 10. Dubbed…

  • WannaCry Ransomware Decryption Tool Released; Unlock Files Without Paying Ransom

    If you were infected by WannaCry, they have released a decryption tool to unlock your files without paying the ransom. If your PC has been infected by WannaCry – the ransomware that wreaked havoc across the world last Friday – you might be lucky to get your locked files back without paying the ransom of…

  • Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Critical RCE in Windows Malware Scanner

    Make sure you get this Microsoft update asap. Microsoft’s own antivirus software made Windows 7, 8.1, RT and 10 computers, as well as Windows Server 2016 more vulnerable. Microsoft has just released an out-of-band security update to patch the crazy bad bug discovered by a pair of Google Project Zero researchers over the weekend. Security…

  • Beware! Don’t Fall for FireFox “HoeflerText Font Wasn’t Found” Banking Malware Scam

    For all you FireFox users… The malicious scam campaign, “The ‘HoeflerText’ font wasn’t found,” is back, which was previously targeting Google Chrome users to trick them into installing Spora ransomware on their computers. This time the campaign has been re-designed to target Mozilla Firefox users with a banking trojan, called Zeus Panda. Interestingly, the attackers…

  • Unpatched WordPress Flaw Could Allow Hackers To Reset Admin Password

    For all you do-it-yourself-ers, this is why it’s important to stay current on your core, theme, and plugin updates.  If you can’t find the time, hire me, or another professional, to do it consistently.  Most updates should not be considered “optional.”  They are done to stay ahead of hackers or fix exploit flaws. WordPress, the…

  • How to Make Windows Troubleshoot Your PC’s Problems for You

    Why not let Windows do all the heavy lifting when you have a problem? Windows includes a variety of “troubleshooters” designed to quickly diagnose and automatically solve various computer problems. Troubleshooters can’t fix everything, but they’re a great place to start if you encounter a problem with your computer. Troubleshooters are built into the Control Panel…

  • Warning! Don’t Click that Google Docs Link You Just Received in Your Email

    Did someone just share a random Google Doc with you? First of all — Do not click on that Google Doc link you might have just received in your email and delete it immediately — even if it’s from someone you know. I, my colleagues at The Hacker News, and even people all around the…

  • Source Code for CIA’s Tool to Track Whistleblowers Leaked by Wikileaks

    Yet one more reason why Microsoft should be worried about their market share… “It generates a random watermark for each document, inserts that watermark into the document, saves all such processed documents in an output directory, and creates a log file which identifies the watermarks inserted into each document,” Scribbles’ user guide manual reads. Scribbles Only…