Security

Wikipedia Foundation, the organization operating the popular online encyclopedia, has issued a warning to its users, telling them that if they are seeing adverts while browsing WIKIPEDIA site, it is likely that their computers have become a victim of malware infection. “We never run ads on Wikipedia,” said Philippe Beaudette, director of community advocacy for the Wikimedia Foundation,... Read More »

Lookout Mobile Security, a security company, has discovered an Android ‘drive-by’ malware that is used to infect Windows computer systems. Discovered on a number of websites, the odd Trojan is distributed using a webpage containing a hidden iFrame. How the malware infects? Any Android browser visiting an affected page (the attack ignores PC browsers) will automatically start downloading the malware... Read More »

Security solution provider Symantec Corporation has announced enhancements to its enterprise mobile security product. These include capabilities for mobile application management, data loss prevention (DLP), certificate management and code signing for developers. How the new features will benefit users? According to Symantec, the features will help IT cope with the rising Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)... Read More »

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and chat service Skype is investigating a potential security threat that can expose a person’s last known Internet Protocol (IP) address. “We are investigating reports of a new tool that allegedly captures a Skype user’s last known IP address,” said Adrian Asher, Skype’s director of product security. Steps taken by Skype Skype, which is owned... Read More »

Microsoft Corporation’s security research team has discovered a new malware that exploits an old bug in Microsoft Office. The strange thing about this malware is that instead of attacking the PCs, the bug is actually targeting Mac OS X systems. The vulnerability, which was categorized as critical when it was discovered and patched in 2009, allows the attackers to execute remote code, which enables... Read More »

The deadly Flashback malware recently shook up the entire world by claiming more than 600,000 Macs worldwide. Although the malware is now somewhat in control, but it was a real shocker for all those Mac users who used to boast about the impermeability of their PCs. But the new findings made by the antivirus firm Sophos have given a twist to the whole story. According to Sophos, a Mac computer is more... Read More »

The owners and webmasters of around 20,000 websites have been warned by search giant Google of possible attacks by hackers. The warnings were sent to the owners of those sites, which according to the head of Google’s anti-spam team Matt Cutts were doing the so-called weird redirects. “Is your site doing weird redirects? We just sent a ‘your site might be hacked’ message to 20,000... Read More »

Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, is showing a keen interest in learning how to hack into video game consoles. The recent deal of the U.S. Navy with Obscure Technologies worth U.S. $177,237.50 to develop tools for the extraction of information from video game systems is a clear indication of the recent development in Pentagon. The official description of Pentagon... Read More »

According to F-Secure Corporation, a computer security solutions providing company, a malware program called ‘Flashback’ had infected some computers made by Apple Inc. The malware program was capable of infecting Apple Macintosh systems through Java software, an element of programs developed by many companies. Apple released a statement saying that it has released a fix for the Java vulnerability... Read More »

If you own a Mac and still believe that your device is absolutely safe from cyber infections then it’s time to wake up. It’s also time to get active and take preventive measures if you want to save your Mac computer. According to a security firm, Dr. Web, a deadly malware named Flashback Trojan has affected more than 600,000 Mac computers worldwide. Out of these 600,000 Mac computers, more than... Read More »

Scammers always look for opportunities to con you online. Use of lucrative offers on the Internet is also not a new trick but people still fall prey to them. This time, cybercriminals are trying to leverage the popularity of ‘Draw Something’ app through Twitter. The popular app was recently purchased by the social game developer, Zynga. According to security firm Sophos, online scammers are using... Read More »

It came as a shock to the 19 million fan followers of Justin Bieber on Twitter when they saw the tweet “19 million my a** #biebermyb**ls” coming from Bieber’s account. To add to their dismay, many of them saw themselves being unfollowed and blocked by their favorite star. The content of the tweet in question suggests that the person who hacked the account was questioning the follower count... Read More »

If you are of the opinion that the Microsoft browser that you are using on your computer or tablet is absolutely safe then hold on! Here is something that will certainly make you think again. Even, the latest and safest browser from Microsoft i.e. Internet Explorer 9 is not totally hack proof. In a recent annual hacking event named Pwn2Own, a team of experts from VUPEN Security brought down Internet... Read More »

It seems that Twitter is all geared up for taking over businesses. After purchasing a cryptography startup in November 2011, Twitter has taken another step in the same direction. The micro-blogging social networking website, Twitter has recently acquired Dasient, a provider of anti-malware and web security suite. The plans are to use the expertise of Dasient and apply its technology and team to... Read More »

Windows defender alias Microsoft Antispyware, can really work wonders when it comes to remove the quarantine spywares. Not only removing but it is a spyware that can be very useful in detecting, preventing & getting prior information about these specific spywares respectively. If we take a look at its contents we can see that it is being packed by nothing but operating systems, naturally decreasing... Read More »

If we take up the account of the windows registry system, we will find out that it is a specific database that enables to operate your system’s settings & configurations. It includes everything including the movement of your mouse above the taskbar & performance settings too.  With more exotic features, Windows7 will improve the overall performance of your system including strong back... Read More »

According to the recent declaration of Microsoft, it requested its users to turn on the features for windows security since more & more malware is affecting the cyber tool at a very large extent. This is the recent warning being published by Microsoft according to recent computer world news that really made the computer buffs think twice before logging in. User Account Control (UAC) is the character... Read More »

Can you be 100% sure that there are no viruses or malwares lurking into your company network? The answers will always be a big NO. Those viruses or malwares must be working simultaneously with some legitimate application and there are chances that you are still not able to detect this infection on you network and application behavior. Viruses and Malwares have evolved a lot with time that even the... Read More »

Internet threats has been an old story now but threats with security breach is alwaysstood as an emerging cause for the user. The information customer has in its computer is more likely to be very important to an individual. The threats has always targeted Personal data, banking information, emails, financial transaction etc. and one would really think to work safely over the internet as well as to... Read More »

Today the world has become too fast and even a bigger task can be performed in few minutes. This has become possible just due to the internet. Today almost everything can be done online. This increases the methods for the users to access their accounts in a much better and faster way. But this also opens a gateway to the hackers to harm the banks and ultimately the user. The more a bank increases... Read More »

Every person in today’s world wants to be connected to the rest of the world for maximum possible time. This is only possible with the help of the social networking websites available on the internet. But due to these kinds of websites the personal space that every individual possess is decreasing day by day. So now there is more emphasis on the security things. Anything is more used just because... Read More »

As everybody knows ,AVG is a category of anti-virus as well as Internet security software for the Microsoft Windows/Linux, , Mac OS X, and many other FreeBSD computing platforms, which was originally introduced by AVG Technologies which is a privately maintained Czech company previously called as Grisoft. Thus the brand name called AVG is derived from Grisoft’s initial product called “Anti-Virus... Read More »

Passware, a password recovery firm has warned Mac OS X Lion users against using the system’s “automatic login” feature. The reason behind this warning is, if the automatic login feature is enabled, the OS X Lion is more vulnerable to security risk as the passwords are exposed when the OS goes into sleep mode. A hacker can access the system password by connecting to the Firewire port in Mac as... Read More »

Malware specifically targeted to Android devices is a growing concern as researchers discover new variants of Android malware.  Researchers have recently discovered a new variant of the Trojan DroidDream.  Google had removed apps from the market that was affected by this Trojan.   Google also found out malware that were designed to send premium SMS from the Android phone thus raising the phone... Read More »

Operating system and software has been vulnerable to so many threats and it is software manufacturer’s duty to provide fix to all those bugs. In the same fashion, Microsoft has recently rolled out 22 vulnerabilities in Windows operating system and Office suites, which also had the bug related to Bluetooth functionality in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. This bug was being used to... Read More »