Speaking to CBR at the Info Security 2012 conference, Kaspersky founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky said that Apple is years behind Microsoft when it comes to security, and the company will have to change the ways it approaches updates following the recent malware...
by Righard Zwienenberg Senior Research Fellow As written in our “Password management for non-obvious accounts” blog post on February 22, the FBI confiscated the DNS Servers used by the DNS Changer malware and replaced them with different servers so that...
By John E Dunn, techworld.com The source of the Apple Mac Flashback Trojan was probably a large clutch of compromised US-based WordPress blog websites hijacked to push visitors to malware hosts, Kaspersky Lab research has revealed. As has previously been established...
By Lucian Constantin, IDG News A remote access computer Trojan (RAT) designed to steal credit card details from hotel point-of-sale (PoS) applications is being sold on the underground forums, researchers from security firm Trusteer said in a blog post on Wednesday....
By Kevin Parrish Google has informed 20,000 web sites that they could be infected with redirect malware. On Tuesday, Google’s Matt Cutts said via Twitter that his Google Search Quality team sent out warning letters in numerous languages to 20,000 websites...
by Righard Zwienenberg Senior Research Fellow Phishers always try to find new ways to bypass security features and trick ‘educated’ users. Over the years we have seen simplistic phishing attempts where the required information had to be typed into the...
By David Harley A while ago, I responded to a blog comment promising some thoughts on how to recognize a cold-calling PC support scam. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to do that immediately, and then I was on vacation with no Internet connectivity (I should do that...
By Emil Protalinski There’s a new Trojan on the block that is looking to take advantage of all the hype surrounding Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram. Cybercriminals have created fake versions of the Instagram Android app, designed to earn money from...
By Jared Newman, PCWorld Apparently not all Mac users got the memo about Flashback, the malware that recently infected more than 600,000 computers running OS X. According to security firm Symantec, roughly 140,000 Mac computers were still infected as of April 16....
Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to reset your online store password – please note, this is not the same as your ESET username and password. 1. Open your browser at: https://betterantivirus.com/buy_now/ Use the lost-password link to have a TEMPORARY online...