Ad-Aware was created more than twelve years ago to combat a new problem being ignored by anti-virus companies; adware and spyware. It may be that anti-virus companies didn’t have the know-how, the will, or were simply afraid of being sued by wealthy and litigious adware companies but it was a problem that someone needed to address.

As the holiday shopping season approaches, cybercriminals are readying their scam list and checking it twice. And this year, no platform is off limits.

Cybercriminals save their best schemes for the holidays, they say, dressing online scams to steal personal information and money in festive, seasonal wrapping. There are likely to be more online scam victims during those busy shopping and travelling December days than at any other time during the year.

What a year 2012 has been… Cyber thieves are constantly adapting their techniques to get hold of your private information. This year has been no different. We wanted to get a perspective of how the year has been in terms of online security, in the eyes of our Malware Lab team. To help you get a better perspective, we interviewed Malware Labs’ director, Andrew Browne to find out his take on malware in 2012 and his team was really thoughtful to compile a detailed report of the top malware trends of the year.

Yes, we've been rather busy here at Lavasoft for the past weeks... Since we want to continuously deliver robust technologies to our users, we are once again excited to announce the release of the newest version of Ad-Aware 10.4.

Lavasoft News has compiled a list of "security shorts" - summaries of other online security stories making news around the world this past month.