by technicalguy | Nov 15, 2011 | Security
A new study by Telus and the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has found that an IT security breach to a Canadian company will cost, on average, $38,000 is costs. Up to 37% off Samsung Monitors The average Canadian public company...
by technicalguy | Oct 31, 2011 | Email, Security
Do not open and run the web form attached to this email. I received the following email with an attachement named “form.html”. It pretends that it is from American Express however a review of the attached web form shows that it points back to...
by technicalguy | Oct 11, 2011 | Internet, Security
Click on a Canadian website? You’re agreeing to the website’s “terms of use” policy, a BC Judge has ruled. Here’s the original Globe and Mail...
by technicalguy | May 9, 2011 | Security, Social Media, Technology
Researchers from Belgium and France have discovered that “a significant percentage” of the top 100 file sharing sites allow unauthorized access. File sharing sites sites such RapidShare, FileFactory, and Easyshare, provide file sharing by using supposedly...
by technicalguy | Mar 29, 2011 | Email, Security
I received this email scam this morning which at first glance looks like a domain registration renewal advisory. It’s not. Let’s take a moment and and understand some basic security checks you can do when you’re not sure about an incoming email....
by technicalguy | Mar 10, 2011 | Security
At the 2011 annual CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest a team from France successfuly hijacked a fully patched version of Mac OS X 64-bit Within five seconds of surfing to the rigged site,VUPEN co-founder Chaouki Bekrar had successfully launched Apple’s calculator app...
