How Does Malware Impact Your Computer’s Performance?

How Does Malware Impact Your Computer’s Performance?

Malware, a term used to describe malicious software, is designed to damage or disable computers. Malware includes viruses, spyware, adware, and various other types of harmful software. But what type of impact does malware have on your computer? Malware impacts your computer in the following ways: Disrupts operations. Steals sensitive information. Allows unauthorized access to...

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Duleep Pillai
April 10, 2014
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How Does Malware Impact Your Computer’s Performance?

Urgent Notice: The Latest Security Flaw May Be Stealing Your Confidential Data!

On April 8th, 2014, Google and security firm Codenomicon released details about a security flaw in OpenSSL Web servers. The security flaw, also known as “heartbleed”, enables hackers to access websites and steal massive amounts of data from vulnerable versions of OpenSSL. Warning: Heartbleed Impacts Websites Potentially Used by Your Employees As a business owner,...

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Duleep Pillai
April 9, 2014
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The Concern for Email Security Continues to Grow

While email is extremely convenient for collaboration and communication, employees tend to use email folders as a personal storage center. When this happens, mass amounts of the organization’s sensitive information resides in an inbox. Does this sound secure to you? Ponemon Institute’s Study on The State of Email Encryption Ponemon Institute conducted a study to...

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Duleep Pillai
April 9, 2014
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Today Is “Zero Day Forever!” Microsoft Has Stopped Publishing Patches for XP

(April 8, 2014) — As of today Microsoft has stopped publishing Windows XP patches.  They’ve named today,  “Zero Day Forever.” Zero-day refers to vulnerabilities hackers use to attack your operating system. Microsoft will continue to provide anti-malware for Windows XP through July 14, 2015. However, as of today: Microsoft will technically stop supporting the Windows...

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Duleep Pillai
April 8, 2014
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Warning: Your Emails Must Be Encrypted to Prevent Unauthorized Access

Here’s a little surprise for you: your email isn’t as private as you’d like to think! Sure, we don’t expect the Internet to be very private, but most of us would like to believe our emails are private. But in reality, your unprotected emails can easily be intercepted during transmission to the recipient. When you’re...

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Duleep Pillai
April 8, 2014
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