malware

More than 60 percent of respondents have tried multiple anti-virus products over the course of a year, according to Avira. In addition, 25 percent of the users admitted to …

CoreTrace released their top security predictions for 2011. “The major theme in for 2011 will be evolution. The evolution of attacks like Stuxnet, the evolution of new …

Malicious shortened goo.gl links and compromised accounts are once again used to lure users to pages that will ultimately harm their computer. A message saying “a very …

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Office has recently been spotted being exploited in the wild by attackers aiming at getting control of targeted …

A new information-stealing Trojan that seems to be Chinese in origin has been detected by Avira’ researchers. It is designed to steal usernames and passwords associated …

Hacktivism and more profit-oriented malware, social engineering and malicious codes with the ability to adapt to avoid detection will be the main threats in the coming year, …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: McAfee’s Secure Short URL Service not so secure M86 Security Labs’ …

IID released its list of the top enterprise security trends for 2011. Some specific areas that will have significant spikes in attacks are social networking, mobile, and …

Experience has proven that if a site enables users to contribute content, this feature will be abused by those who want to push their own agenda – usually spammers. This …

Everyone uses social networks like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Although these fantastic sites do have their upside, they also open users up to more computer viruses and …

After Stuxnet hit, it was discovered that it took advantage of four previously unknown Windows zero-day vulnerabilities to spread and compromise targeted systems. Three of …

Webmasters of websites hosted on GoDaddy have to check their source code yet again, as attackers using a number of different domains inject rogue code into their pages, which …