In an ever growing drive to create faster and faster processors a type of processing known as speculative processing was born. Speculative processing allows the Central Processing Unit (CPU), the brain of the computer, to process commands and data out of order instead of bottle necking at a single process that might take longer than another. Each time a program … Read More
Ransomware Alert: You’re Gonna Wanacry Over Wanacrypt
Do I have Ransomware? How do you know if you have ransomware on your computer? Let’s say you sit down at your computer to work on an important project. After it turns on, you meet a popup that states, ” You must pay 0.3 Bitcoin to decrypt the data on this computer.” What do you do and what is ransomware? … Read More
Email Security – It Is Everyone’s Responsibility
Last week, the internet was set on fire by the Google Docs phishing attack. This attack was highly sophisticated, in that, it worked inside the Google Docs system. Many people clicked on this legitimate email, only to get their Google accounts hacked. What happened next is the scam was sent to everyone in their contacts. It gave the attacker full … Read More
A New Google Docs Phishing Scam – What you Need to Know
A new Google Docs phishing scam is making its way around the internet. To understand how this very sophisticated attempt works and how you could be at risk, picture the following: You are looking through your email when all of a sudden, your good friend Stan Perimeter has shared a Google Doc with you. Excited to see what your friend thought was … Read More