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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.

65% Of '4G' enabled Android phones could be at risk. QuadRooter - What it's all about? A vulnerability had been identified in one of the Qualcomm LTE chipsets used in many modern Android phones. The chipsets primary purpose is to provide access to the LTE network (often called 4G) and the Qualcomm chipsets make up about 65% of the market according to CheckPoint [ http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/08/07/quadrooter/ ]