Here's your chance to make a difference ... tool up and kill a zombie for Halloween.
What ... what are you doing? Put down that baseball bat and chainsaw! I'm not talking the living dead kind of zombie here, I'm taking about the silicon kind that are used by cybercriminals to send spam, distribute malware, and commit identity theft. A zombie computer. What's a zombie computer? It's a computer that's is infected with malware to bring it under the control of the cybercriminals as part of a botnet. Billions of spam emails are sent daily, and 99% of these are sent using zombie computers.
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find and eliminate as many zombie computers as possible. Here's how:
Scan your computer and those of your friends (ask permission first!) with an up-to-date anti-virus program. If you don't already have an anti-virus you can always download a free trial edition from Sophos. There are a lotoffreeoptions available out there. If you use a Mac at home, then Sophos also have free anti-virus software for you.
Keep your operating system and programs up-to-date with the latest security patches, and run a firewall.
Snapchat
remains
a
work
in
progress
from
a
business
model
and
technology
perspective,
but
it
is
showing
ability
to
grow
engagement
and
keep
costs
in
check.
...
Female
technologists
feel
their
employers
don't
value
diversity
in
the
workplace
and
are
not
doing
enough
to
support
women
in
the
sector,
a
study
says.
...
CIOs
could
soon
see
a
significant
portion
of
their
tech
budgets
rising
inexorably,
but
the
potential
for
their
CEOs
to
ask
them
to
cut
tech
budgets
is
also
rising.
Here
are
the
questions
...
Join Discussion