April 28, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
A lot of naysayers out there are spewing venom about Apple lately, the most recent being CEO of Kaspersky Lab Eugene Kaspersky. The head of the security firm believes that the Cupertino computer company is headed for rough times, at least as far as computer security is concerned. Kaspersky, who spoke to Computer Busine
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March 29, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
International British conglomerate News Corporation, headed by Rupert Murdoch, is still under the shroud of a recent phone-hacking scandal as it faces even more hacking allegations in Australia. According to the Australian Financial Review, internal documents and emails supposedly show that a “secret unit” inside News
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March 5, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
There is nothing sweeter than poetic justice. Somebody getting what is coming to them is really one of the best things somebody else can witness. It can be great if the person getting what they deserve is getting something good, or it can just be flat out ironic. Such is the case with Anonymous, the
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March 2, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
I don’t know about you, but when my internet goes down, I go into a rage. Everything I do revolves around my internet. My job, Xbox, my PC, Facebook, it’s like a bad dream, and I’m just a 22-year old guy from Ohio. I imagine that when the internet goes down at a place like,
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February 22, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
I’ve got some good news that is immediately followed by some bad news. The good news is that spam is continuing to decrease with the bad news being that cybercriminals are still hard at work creating intricate and sophisticated computer hacks and launching them on helplessly unsuspecting victims according to a recent T
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February 16, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
Senators discussed on Tuesday the prospect of getting a jump on recent efforts to increase U.S. computer security with an all new bill. This new bill would require private companies operating critical infrastructures to meet certain security requirements. This is only the latest attempt by the Senate to combine competi
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February 7, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
It has recently been discovered by researchers at Trend Micro that there is a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads stolen data cache to the SpendSpace file-sharing service for when it needs to be retrieved. Creators of malware often use file-hosting and sharing servers for that exact purpose. However,
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January 9, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
Cyber attacks are quickly becoming a very serious threat to internet users all over the world. Every day we are hearing more and more about big businesses and government websites that are getting hacked by different groups and causing mayhem for everyone involved. The bigger problem is, however, that it is extremely ha
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January 4, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
If you are a big corporation or a big enterprise company, you probably already know that you need powerful computers to handle the sheer amount of information that is used to make tasks simpler and less expensive while also enabling knowledge to be shared more easily in order to benefit the company. An increased depend
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December 9, 2011 · Cybersecurity & Malware
Unfortunately, issues involving cybercrime are only expected to increase in the coming year which is leading many technical support companies to advise users on how to be proactive and protect their PCs. These firms are developing new hacker protection plans designed to help protect your computer from these viral attac
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At Tuesday’s CNN-sponsored GOP debate, three Republican Presidential candidates stated that cyber attacks pose an emerging national security threat to the United States of America. In his closing comments during the debate, GOP hopeful and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said that he views cyber attacks as on
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November 10, 2011 · Cybersecurity & Malware
There are many services out there that cater to the specific needs of people. Whether it be food, cleaning services or childcare, the catering business is quite profitable. However, there are some services that are catered that you would never in a million years expect, like an underground calling service that caters t
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October 31, 2011 · Cybersecurity & Malware
The one thing about computer viruses that is the worst is that they are always evolving. No matter how fast anti-virus companies make new software to protect you it seems there is always something that they can’t defend against. However, the fact that anti-virus products certified by ICSA Labs can protect users from a
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October 18, 2011 · Cybersecurity & Malware
You’ve probably all heard by now about the computer virus that was affecting the Pentagon’s drone program last month. Well, in a recent development, the Pentagon has announced that the computer virus was not directed at the military systems but was, in fact, common malware used to steal login names and passwords used i
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October 14, 2011 · Cybersecurity & Malware
The recently released SpyEye banking malware is continuing to affect computers across the world and is also proving to be more difficult to detect and remove from infected Windows PCs, according to researchers from EMC’s RSA Security Division.
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