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The now infamous Conficker worm created quite the scare for security researchers, and in some ways, it still does. In a new report (PDF), the Conficker Working Group — a coalition of cybersecurity experts and industry heavyweights including Microsoft,…
Facebook alone claims over 500 million active members, though it’s far from the only social networking site on the Web. Social networking is the hottest trend right now, and according to security firm Sophos, scammers and spammers haven taken notice.
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According to security firm BitDefender, malware aimed at social networks like Facebook pose the biggest threat for mobile platforms and is as widely spread as malware that targets PCs.
“When data security researchers focus on finding malware specifical…
Awake to the fact that malware authors are adept at gaining high search rankings for their malware-fraught sites, Google has been providing malware notifications in its search results for three years now. But what about legitimate sites compromised …
Security firm Sophos is warning Facebook users about yet another app that supposedly lets you see who’s been viewing your profile. Like many before it, this one is a scam.
“As we’ve described a couple of times before, plenty of Facebook users would *lo…
GFI Software, a security firm specializing in various software for small to medium-sized business, says to be on the lookout for Halloween-themed malware attacks.
The company’s dedicated malware research center, GFI Labs, has been busy analyzing data f…
Are you a PC user? Good; you are likely annoyed. Because, let’s face it, there are some parts of the “master of your domain” experience that are downright annoying to do. Novice users have it easy—to them, a computer is merely a portable word p…
Uggghh. I should have known better, but there I was, staring at a bright-red screen in my Google Chrome tab that was trying to impress upon me—as much as a software browser could sans digital kick to the butt—that the popular tech news site I was a…