Month: February 2002

Man in the middle attacks refers to when an attacker is able to sit in the middle of your traffic and is able to see your communication without you knowing….

Applications have unknown vulnerabilities. Good guys and bad guys are working diligently to find what these vulnerabilities are. The good guys will notify the application developer once found, while the…

Denial of Service refers to an attack in which a malicious actor attempts to force a service to fail, usually by overloading it. A Denial of Service (DoS) takes advantage…

Social engineering is dynamic in that malicious actors are constantly changing their tactics in how they extract information from users. Social engineering can take the form of a telephone call,…

Secure DNS services are another method of blocking malware. A DNS service can provide real time domain blocking to prevent a user from visiting a known bad website. If a…

Although your entire network may be surrounded by a firewall, it’s also good to have personal software firewalls to monitor each local computer. Software firewalls can monitor outbound communications, which…

Since many forms of malware are instantiated by user action, it’s important to educate your end users on what malware is and how to avoid it. This education can take…

To recover from a malware attack you may need to perform a restore of a backup. Which means you should ensure you have a backup in the first place. To…

If malware has taken ahold of your computer, you may not be able to boot up your computer. In this case, you can enter into the WIndows Recovery Environment. From…

Antivirus and antimalware software may be two separate applications but it is becoming more popular for them to both be integrated together in one application. Antivirus and anti-malware applications are…