Recent publicity seems to have woken people up to the dangers of Cryptolocker I’m still seeing lots of references to the security measures we should take to protect ourselves against Cryptolocker and a lot of my computer support clients are also asking for my advice as to whether they are adequately protected. If you don’t …
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GameOver Zeus and Cryptolocker
Is the NCA trying to panic us into action? Last week the National Crime Agency (NCA) claimed a huge victory over cyber criminals after they had managed to take control of a massive network of “bots”. Bots are anyone’s computers that have been infected with malware that allows the criminals to use them to further …
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CryptoLocker
The next time that an IT horror story breaks through into mainstream consciousness, it could well be caused by CryptoLocker What is CryptoLocker? It’s a horrible piece of malware that encrypts the most common types of data files on your computer (especially Microsoft data files such as Word documents and Excel spreadsheets). Once attacked, you …
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