Tag: malware

Internet Explorer 8 Zero-Day Exploit Gets Fixed Today
Earlier this month, Internet Explorer 8 was hit with a pretty nasty zer...
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Java Hit With Another Zero-Day Exploit: Disable It Now
2012 was not a good year for Oracle. After losing a major lawsuit against Google, t...
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Your Computer And Mobile Device Remain At Risk In 2013
Cybersecurity is a serious issue, and one that needs to be taken up by everybody. It's not just a matter of some...
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Facebook Donates $250,000 to UAB Cybercrime Researchers
October is National Cyber Security Awareness month, and in light of that Facebook has...
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Facebook Beefs Up Anti-Virus Marketplace with 7 New Partners
Earlier this year, Facebook debuted their Anti-Virus Marketplace which allows users...
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SOPA Returns As A Poorly Executed Extortion Virus
Remember SOPA? The Internet really dodged a bullet there when the largest Web protest ever killed the bill. There have been rumors that it would be back, despite MPAA CEO Chris Dod...
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Malware-Carrying Twitter DMs Push Fake Facebook Links
Twitter users need to be on the lookout for a new round of malware-carrying spam messages that are coming from compromised accounts, possibly even from Twitter profiles they trust....
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Mobile And Social Are The New Frontiers Of Cybercrime
Cybercrime is perhaps the most devastating, yet most preventable, form of crime. Victims can have their lives utterly destroyed by a hacker. Those same victims often share a part i...
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Emma Watson Is the Internet’s Riskiest Click
If your internet activities involve searching for Harry Potter star Emma Watson (and let's be honest, they probably do), you might want to be extra careful about which lin...
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Google Buys VirusTotal, Will Keep It Running Independently
Google has acquired malware detection company VirusTotal. VirusTotal announced the acquisition in a blot...
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McAfee Reports That Malware Is On The Rise
It seems like there's a report of some new kind of malware hitting PCs and Mac every day now. Hackers are getting smarter and security companies are playing catch up. Even then, th...
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Facebook Goes After Fraudulent Likes
In order to cut down on fraudulent "likes" across the network, Facebook has announced that they have upped their automated efforts to remove likes that have been "gained by means t...
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New Malware Comes Dressed as Facebook Photo Tag Email Notification
If you receive an email that looks like it's from Facebook and says that you've been tagged in a photo, you may want to scour it for abnormalities. That's because the latest malwa...
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Java Gets Hit With A Zero-Day Exploit
Java is in everything. It's in your browser at this very moment. The Java plug-in that is powering a lot of the Web also features one nasty exploit. The latest zero-day exploit sho...
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The Latest Mac Virus Is Hilariously Bad
Mac users should become increasingly aware of the threat that malware poses to their machines. Hackers and malicious coders are getting better everyday at breaking into the once th...
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