I feel comfortable saying that all of us know what encrypted data is. Web encryption, specifically, has been around for quite some time now. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) did take a long time to be considered widely adopted, however—twenty-two years, to be exact! 2017 marks a milestone because there is now officially more encrypted web …
UPDATE: For those infected by older versions of Petya, you can find a decryptor here. With the recent release of the Petya ransomware, it is important to understand a few things about it. In this article, I hope to provide you with a brief history of Petya, and provide you with four things that you …
With cellular networks taking over the world and nearly every person joining team Apple or Android, it’s easy to see why the evildoers of the world are taking advantage of the boom and riddling us with malware-infested phones and apps. The scary part is that these phones could be on your network as we speak.
There may be times when a computer infection elicits a chuckle before driving you to tear your hair out. Here, I’ll be discussing a few examples of weird malware I’ve come across (not from personal experience, thankfully). Keep in mind that some of these started out merely as a prank between friends—meaning it doesn’t take …