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Malware attack infects PC's globally You have probably heard on the news that millions of computers around the world have been infected with a piece of ransomware, have you checked if your home and business PC's are protected?

Is your home router living a secret double life as a botnet DDoS server? The number of private home routers being duped into living a secret life as part of a botnet or in serving up malicious DNS results to it's users has seen a surge in the latter half of 2016. It's thought that the majority of traffic in the DDoS attack on various gaming servers in Christmas 2015 was generated from home routers that had been compromised.

UK Cybercrime is increasing  A recent report on Internet Security and cybercrime has shown that UK users are among the most targeted in the world, with both home users and businesses being attacked daily, and over half a billion personal records stolen in 2015.

2-Step Verification Scam With more users realising the security benifits of 2-step authentication, the criminals are coming up with new ways to break into your account.

Facebook knows too much... Well, if you're a facebook user. Chances are you have filled your facebook with small snippets of personal information, put together it could be used to build a personal profile that might reveal more than you expect. So here's our guide to getting to grips with Facebook

The telephone provider Talk Talk has become the victim of a criminal cyber-attack. While Talk Talk are still assessing what data was accessed during the attack, there are a number of steps you can take if you are a Talk Talk customer.

Scam emails pretending to be from the Government Gateway are being set out again. While some scam emails are still offering larger bodily parts and, ahm, performance enhancing substances, they are easy to spot by both humans and computers. Some scammers have taken things up a notch in the past year or so, creating plausible and relevant scam emails that could catch the unwary. One such email currently being distributed is pretending to be from the Government Gateway, part of the UK's e-Government service for various business and tax electronic form submissions.

Do the FREAK It seams like only yesterday we were all being told about the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL, and how to avoid affected sites until they had been fixed, then there was the Shellshock or Bashdoor vulnerability that meant the servers running your favourite websites were being broken into, you may even have heard of the Poodle attack that could allow an attacker to break into your SSL 3 connection, and now Freak, exploring another SSL vulnerability, albeit one that this time was practically imposed on you