Ransomware closes business

Ransomware - a subject we've discussed numerous times on the TITA blog and there are many good reasons why we return to this topic repeatedly – primarily, it isn't going away. The internet is a dangerous place and 'IT ransom' now has an annual global worth in the trillions of dollars for its perpetrators. Typically, it's smaller companies being targeted as they're less likely to have the security budget that larger organisations can apply to the ...

A Free Lunch?

"You are the product" is a digital age reboot of that old chestnut warning the unwary and unwise – "there's no such thing as a free lunch" ! Last December we learned that Mozilla has removed from its Firefox web browser, four security extensions from Avast and its subsidiary AVG.The extensions in question… Avast Online Security AVG Online Security Avast SafePrice AVG SafePrice …are all installed in the 'free' versions of the antivirus/security pr...