No matter how good your digital security system is, and no matter how much you’ve spent on it, your weakest link is and always will be your employees themselves.

A careless or disgruntled employee can easily circumvent even the most elaborate system and cost you big money in the process.

The Darkweb has trends, just like the conventional web does. In years past, the hottest data for sale on the black market was credit card info, but that is now changing according to the latest Trend Micro survey. The new hot property? Medical records, and Trend’s survey indicates that North American hospitals are more exposed to digital threats than anywhere else on the planet.

Lockdroid is one of the oldest forms of ransomware in the Android ecosystem, and recently, it has been evolving at a frightening pace. Just last month, researchers found a version that displayed a 2D barcode, with the idea being that the infected user would scan the barcode to get a URL where payment could be made to unlock your files.

There’s a nasty new form of Malware making the rounds that targets Chrome users, so if that’s your browser of choice, be warned that if you’re not careful, you could wind up with a lot more than you bargained for.

Here’s how the new attack works:

If you go to a website that doesn’t display text properly, you may get a popup telling you that the font can’t be displayed, instructing you to download a Chrome font pack.

In recent years, an increasing number of companies have migrated to the Cloud for cost-saving reasons, but today, we got a painful reminder of the limitations and risks associated with doing that.

Amazon’s cloud-based service, AWS, suffered an outage that is impacting a number of people who rely on the service, including, but not limited to:

• Trello
• Quora
• IFTTT
• Wix
• Alexa
• GroupMe
• Nest (Google’s thermostat control app)
• And others

In a bitter irony, the website isitdownrightnow.

If you’re a music lover and you’ve been to the website of the annual California music festival Coachella, then you are at risk.

The entire Coachella database was recently found for sale on the Darkweb. It contains email addresses, passwords and in many cases, IP addresses and other personal information of everyone who has registered on the site.

WordPress is the reigning King of the Content Management Systems, and by extension, the king of much of the internet. More people use the platform than any other, and with good reason. It’s an enormously flexible platform that will allow you to build any kind of website you want with ease.

It’s an oldie but a goodie, and an attack vector that Windows users have seen since the late 90’s.

Macros. These are essentially shortcut codes that Microsoft Word and other applications use to automate certain processes.

They’re written in Visual Basic, and unfortunately, in addition to making your life easier in MS Office, they can also be used to install malware.

If, for some reason, you’re still running Windows XP or Vista, you probably already know that it’s well past time to upgrade. Microsoft officially ended support months ago, even for critical updates, which means that your computer is essentially a ticking bomb.

Remember back in the early 2000’s when Nokia was the king of the cellphone market?
Well, if you’re feeling nostalgic for those days, there’s (potentially) good news on the horizon.

At a recent tech conference in China, the Finnish company announced the release of the “NSeries.