Drive by downloads is the latest fashion in malware infections

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If we go back about ten years viruses were solely spread by emails. The people that spread these viruses then started to get savvier and found new ways to spread them. The next method of spreading malware was USB sticks, often causing problems for the likes of students who would use a USB stick, realise it was contaminated and then use all their course work.

These days’ we are more aware of viruses and know to be careful of opening emails from unknown sources. A change in attitude means the criminal gangs need to think outside of the box since we’ve become more clued up to know how they operate. The latest fashion in creating viruses is therefore drive by downloads.

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my1login - Cloud Password Management

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Category: Technical Product Reviews

Manufacturer: My1login Limited| Model: Business | Origin: Scotland, UK | Website: www.my1login.com | Price: £15/month for up to 10 users with a free option

Simplicity	Value	Documentation
5/5	4/5	4/5
Functionality	Performance	Overall
4/5	5/5	88%

The Good
Reasonably priced for businesses, fast, simple with effective authentication options.

The Bad
The negative points already have fixes on the roadmap like: iPhone and Android applications, desktop software and true two factor authentication.

Conclusion
A cost effective, quick, universal and simple way of storing passwords securely, as well as strengthening up existing logins, by generating a new strong random password. Unlike most other online passwords stores this originates within the UK, so has slightly better privacy than US rivals. Perfect for all sizes of businesses, due to the user management options, as well as home users. Coming this year are new features to improve my1login mobile, desktop and security wise. my1login is the easiest to use and has the best security specification of a password management store I have seen.

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OpenSSL Heartbleed: Expert On Criminal and Government Theories

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News of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, which has emerged over the last 48 hours, is arguably one of the most significant developments in the history of the website security industry. The likes of Target, Sony and TK Maxx have all made waves over the past few years, but whereas these were all incidents of a single company being breached, OpenSSL Heartbleed has potentially affected millions of websites.

OpenSSL is the technology behind the TLS/SSL protocol (or padlock icon) that many of us take as a sign of trustworthiness and reputability when browsing the internet. The OpenSSL Heartbleed bug allows unauthorised users to extract data from the server’s memory, 64,000 characters of it to be precise. This could contain usernames, passwords, encryption keys or even credit card information.

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