Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10 is better at blocking malware downloads than rivals Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera thanks to superior URL and application reputation technology, a new test by NSS Labs has found.
Browser security has been getting more and more layered and complex. How it works and whether it works ...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Security firm Trend Micro has seen an uptick in AutoIT-based malware thanks to the fact that it’s an easy-to-learn language that allows for quick development. It enables everything from simple scripts that change text files to scripts that perform mass downloads with complex GUIs. One commonly seen nefarious AutoIT tool ...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Your hard drive crashes. You hit “Save” without thinking and an important version is overwritten and lost forever. Someone accidentally deletes all the wedding pics. You restore an infected file to your new computer and end up having to start all over again.
Stuff happens.
Having a backup is a good idea. ...
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Monday, May 6th, 2013
Trojans continue to dominate the threat landscape, according to Panda Security's latest quarterly report, released Monday.
The anti-virus maker's research arm, PandaLabs, found that between January and March of this year, more than 6.5 million new malware strains were built, with trojans comprising 75 percent of those. In total, trojans were ...
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Monday, April 29th, 2013
Ongoing exploits infecting tens of thousands of reputable sites running the Apache Web server have only grown more powerful and stealthy since Ars first reported on them four weeks ago. Researchers have now documented highly sophisticated features that make these exploits invisible without the use of special forensic detection methods.
Linux/Cdorked.A, as ...
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