malware

McAfee announced Deep Defender, which is capable of detecting nearly all kernel-mode malware. This level of security is possible with McAfee DeepSAFE technology because its …

Hacking into someone’s mail account can be easy if the person chose an easily guessable password, but could be nigh impossible to brute force it if it’s long and …

One year ago, the Stuxnet virus had just been discovered. A year’s worth of analysis still has not unlocked its secrets but it has had a profound influence upon the …

Symantec announced AdVantage, a new cloud-based service that will enable website owners to discover malware hidden in online advertisements. Malicious advertising …

After the Chaos Computer Club hackers made public the results of their analysis of a few samples of the so-called “Federal Trojan” and found it capable of more …

When Netflix released an Android client app earlier this year, it also witnessed the attempts of various app developers who tried to make a pirated copy of it work on other …

RSA announced new capabilities for RSA NetWitness Spectrum, an analytical workbench for the identification, analysis and prioritization of malware-based threats to enterprise …

Emails purportedly coming from a company’s IT department has been spotted targeting users of various big companies and trying to make them download malware for the last …

Microsoft released its Security Intelligence Report volume 11 (SIRv11), which found that less than 1 percent of exploits in the first half of 2011 were against zero-day …

Nonprofit anti-malware organization StopBadware released of its new Best Practices for Reporting Badware URLs, which prescribe specific steps for reporting different types of …

An unnamed virus with a “keylogger” payload has been found in the computers used to operate U.S. Air Force’s Predator and Reaper remotely operated drones. …

Malware peddlers are known for using news of unfolding events as lures to trick curious users into clicking on an offered malicious link. This practice is most often seen on …