Botnets: The Reality behind the Myth
As technology gets cheaper and cheaper, the number of personal computer rapidly escalates.
View ArticleSecurity Experts Start Looking for the Antidote
If 1987 was a huge leap in developing and distributing malware, the worst was yet to come in 1988. As the computer industry started to take off, so did malware writers.
View ArticleThe NSA versus Morris: $100 Million in Damage
The most important security incident of the year was triggered by Robert T. Morris, Jr., a graduate student at Cornell University and son of a National Security Agency researcher.
View ArticleNew Removable Media gives Malware a Boost #2
1997 also marked the beginning of a new age for malware writers.
View ArticleRemove Downadup from infected computers
One of BitDefender's domains is the first to serve a free removal tool, which disinfects all versions of Downadup, without being blocked by the e-threat.
View ArticleDownadup
Six months after the initial Downadup outbreak, the number of infected systems is still growing, while media speculates about a possible collapse of compromised computers around the world on April Fools
View ArticleConficker April Surprise
The announced April 1st Conficker update doom and gloom has failed to materialize. You can bet your bottom dollar somewhere in the world a virus writer is rolling on the floor laughing. That's not to...
View ArticleBitDefender weekly review
This week a pretty simple but recyclable IRCBot caught out attention. Besides the fact that it allows remote control of the infected machine by the attacker, the only noteworthy fact about it is that...
View ArticleBitDefender weekly review
If you're playing Metin2, Flyff, MapleStoryhe, Lord of the Rings Online, Knight Online, Guild Wars or Age of Conan beware of the new account stealing Trojan that is currently spreading in the wild....
View ArticleWeekly Malware Review – Trojan.Agent.Delf.RHO Owns Your Yahoo Messenger Account
Instant messaging services are increasingly becoming essential parts of our lives, either for business or personal users, and it was just a matter of time until these applications got into malware authors
View ArticleWhat happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas NOT
Online pornographic content is likely to get you into trouble in more than one way
View ArticleSummer malware campaign gets users infected
Malware attached to spam messages collects names and addresses for future spamy crusades
View ArticleSiemens Software Infected with Stuxnet, Still Packed with Dangerous Flaws
Siemens industrial software targeted by Stuxnet malware is still full of security flaws, according to Russian researcher Sergey Gordeychik. His Defcon security paper was cancelled in July after the...
View ArticleInfected or Not? Five Symptoms of a Security Breach
Most viruses, worms and Trojans circulating nowadays have learned to be discreet to avoid detection. Unlike predecessors that displayed warnings on users’ monitors, modern malware operates silently...
View ArticleFive Times More Likely to Get Malware without AV
Computers with no antivirus are five times more likely to get infected with malware than those with protection, according to Microsoft. In the first quarter of 2012, the company found malicious e-mail...
View ArticleHackers Grab Opera Certificate, 1,000 Users Infected with Password-Stealing...
Over a thousand Windows users were infected with password-stealing malware after hackers stole a software-signing certificate from Opera and used it to write malicious code. Users affected by the...
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