The new year just started and the cyber criminals are diligently working. This week the Yahoo! advertisement server was hit with malware. Visitors at Yahoo.com were vulnerable. Users in Great Britain, Romania, and France were affected the most. Java was exploited to carry out the attack.You can read more at http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/05/tech/yahoo-malware-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Innocent visits to reputable sites, such as Yahoo! can have bad outcomes. The most important way to thwart the problems is to maintain up-to-date antivirus and anti-malware software running on your computers. There are versions of antivirus and anti-malware software available for free. Two examples are AVG and Malwarebytes.
This is the second cyber crime (I am certain that there were more) in the last few days. On New Years Day, cyber criminals hacked the Skype Twitter account to bash Microsoft. The Syrian Electronic Army took credit for the hack. You can read more at http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/1/5264540/skype-twitter-facebook-blog-accounts-hacked
Innocent visits to reputable sites, such as Yahoo! can have bad outcomes. The most important way to thwart the problems is to maintain up-to-date antivirus and anti-malware software running on your computers. There are versions of antivirus and anti-malware software available for free. Two examples are AVG and Malwarebytes.
This is the second cyber crime (I am certain that there were more) in the last few days. On New Years Day, cyber criminals hacked the Skype Twitter account to bash Microsoft. The Syrian Electronic Army took credit for the hack. You can read more at http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/1/5264540/skype-twitter-facebook-blog-accounts-hacked
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