Virus, malware, and security in general
The JP Morgan Chase Bank breach is being called the worst known compromise in history, now said to be affecting approximately 76 million households and 7 million small businesses — and the situation appears to be worsening with each new piece of information. According to […]
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Now I know snooping by authorities has a lot of people up in arms, and with good reason, it is certainly nearing saturation point BUT does this new SSD maybe take the concept of security a little too far? The Autothysis128t is a self-encrypting secure
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Respected test lab AV-Test has just released its latest set of results for popular antivirus solutions. Testing involves 23 products in a Windows 7 environment. *If your antivirus is not included, it means the vendor/developer did not submit its product for testing. So let’s take
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On-demand malware scanners/removers have become an integral part of our overall security strategy these days with most users utilizing at least one of these programs to help maintain a clean machine. Antivirus software is never 100% foolproof and these types of second opinion scanners can
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Following on the heels of the Heartbleed scare, another major vulnerability has been identified in a widely utilized software. The newly discovered security vulnerability, dubbed ‘Shellshock’, is part of Bash, the command-line shell utility common to Linux and Unix operating systems. The vulnerability does NOT
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The final word on the Home Depot breach has been reported by Brian Krebs and it turns out to be a breach of massive proportions: Home Depot said today[14th September] that cyber criminals armed with custom-built malware stole an estimated 56 million debit and credit
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Last week, Brian Krebs warned of a suspected data breach at Home Depot stores across the US and Canada dating back to April this year. Unfortunately, that breach has now been confirmed. Even though it appears that the PINs tied to debit cards were not
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Identity theft has increased 103% over the past 12 months… As everyday use of the internet expands so does our level of risk exposure. The amount of data we divulge through the devices we use, either by design or inadvertently, is growing at a rate
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LastPass really wants to keep you safe. Besides just keeping all your long and hard to guess passwords safe, LastPass can give you a safety score and show you how to make your score higher. (Better security!) To start your Security Check, open LastPass and
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News surfaced earlier this week of a suspected data breach of Home Depot stores in the US involving leaked credit card data. Now, it appears, further evidence regarding the extent of the breach is suggesting that it involves nearly all of the company’s stores across
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A recent analysis of Chrome browser extensions performed by USENIX, The Advanced Computer Systems Association, has revealed a relatively high number of malicious and suspicious extensions, many of which have been downloaded by millions of users. In a PDF document issued by USENIX detailing their
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A recent discussion on the DCT Forum reminded me of Malwarebytes’ new anti exploit software which, when I last looked into it, was still in Beta stage. Malwarebytes Anti Exploit is now out of Beta and available in the usual Free and Premium editions. Malwarebytes
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In fact, is there any such animal as a “most secure browser”. This is the question Skybox Security set to out to answer – as they ask in their opening statement, “What defines the degree of security of software? How can one evaluate the security
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The AV-Test Institute, which is well known for its testing of antivirus real time performance, has just released the results of a series of tests specifically designed to determine how a selection of leading products handle malware removal, cleanup, and remediation. The “endurance” tests, which
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