Reading Time: 3 minutes Parents have the responsibility of teaching their kids right from wrong, caring for and protecting them at all costs, right? Unfortunately some parents still don’t consider the internet to be a dangerous place and work to keep their kids safe online. It can be a very dangerous place for a child who unknowingly runs into…

Reading Time: 1 minute Apple has released fixes for OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5 and OS X Mavericks v10.9.5 to address vulnerabilities in SSL 3.0, referred to as the POODLE bug. An attacker can use the but to decrypt data protected by SSL Earlier this week, Google announced that they had identified known attacks that compromised the confidentiality of…

Reading Time: 2 minutes A Personal Firewall controls network communication in and out of a single user’s computer and will restrict the communication based on security policies. A personal firewall is extremely important for computers with a static IP address or one with a stable IP address, as with “always” on technologies such as cable modems or DSL. A…

Reading Time: 1 minute Comodo has released a new Chromium browser that has all of the features of our popular Comodo Dragon browser, but the look and feel of Chrome. Like Comodo Dragon and Comodo Firefox based iceDragon browser, Chromium Secure provides enhanced security and privacy features that surpass all other browsers available. Most browsers available are not up…

Reading Time: 1 minute Crime may pay, but Google is making stopping crime also pay. The latest updates for the Chrome Browser and Chrome OS released this week included fixes for bugs submitted by whitehat hackers as part of Google’s Chrome Rewards Program. In return, Google paid $75,000 in bounties to those who had identified the problems. Earlier this…

Reading Time: 3 minutes So called “autorun viruses” were developed to infect external devices, such as infecting a victim’s PC while opening a flash drive in Windows Explorer. An autorun viruses exploits the Autorun.inf file  in the Windows OS  which is used to launch and auto play programs and files that are stored in removable disks such as Memory…

Reading Time: 2 minutes At their most basic, firewalls work like a filter between your computer/network and the Internet. You can program what you want to get out and what you want to get in. Everything else is not allowed. There are several different methods firewalls use to filter out information, and some are used in combination. These methods…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Jimmy John’s became the latest high profile retailer to report a possible breach of their point-of-sale system and a compromise of cardholder data. Jimmy John’s operates over 2,000 “gourmet sandwich” restaurants in 42 states. According to a statement issued on September 24th, the learned of the security incident On July 30, 2014.They said ” It…

Reading Time: 1 minute Linux and MAC OS X users need to be aware that a crtitical flaw in the “Bourne Agains Shell” (BASH) that processes commands may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Update: check the latest version of Comodo’s free mobile security app Apple has released updates for iOS 8 that fix critical security issues and add file encryption that even the police cannot break. This will likely make Apple users happy, but not so much law enforcement. In the past, Apple could access the data on…