40 million more “likely” affected If you were born in the late 80s, you probably know the meaning of AFK. Otherwise, not only that you likely have...
Author - Bogdan BOTEZATU
Bogdan Botezatu is living his second childhood at Bitdefender as senior e-threat analyst. When he is not documenting sophisticated strains of malware or writing removal tools, he teaches extreme sports such as surfing the web without protection or rodeo with wild Trojan horses. He believes that most things in life can be beat with strong heuristics and that antimalware research is like working for a secret agency: you need to stay focused at all times, but you get all the glory when you catch the bad guys.
Do your part for a safer Internet and scan your devices for these now-extinct threats using the free tool provided by Bitdefender. On November 30, a thorough...
IT executives have unrealistic expectations of their perimeter security measures (firewall, IDPS, AV, content filtering, anomaly detection), Gemalto study says...
Online advertising is a multi-billion dollar business mostly ran by Google, Yahoo or Bing via AdSense-like programs. The current generation of clickbots such...
Windows 10 has only been around for a couple of days, but it is running on more than 67 million computers worldwide already. The new operating system is being...
Update: The antivirus upgrade system built into Windows 10 won’t immediately check for a compatible version of the product. There is a three hour delay...
Popular team messaging service Slack has just started notifying users about a security breach suffered earlier in February. According to the blog entry...
Two weeks ago, we wrote about the re-emergence of tag scams on Facebook. What seemed to be a basic worm at that time turned into inspiration for multiple cyber...
Bad week-end for Facebook users: a malicious tagging campaign ended up infecting at least 5 thousand computer users with a backdoor. This three-day campaign...
Advanced security technologies such as VPN and two-factor authentication are used by less than one in 10 Americans. One in three US-based computer users...