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Our most popular software upgrade now comes with more advanced features than ever before to offer you a complete protection against the most dangerous forms of attacks and malware.
With Ad-Aware 10, our commitment to offer more FREE security features than anyone else is boldly restated.
We’re porting to Ad-Aware FREE 10 more security features than it has ever had in its 12 years of history, thereby making it a direct free competitor to many of the top paid security software available on the market today.
Lavasoft Taps Alexander Adamov to Lead Research and Technology Development for Expanded Malware Labs
Lavasoft, the original anti-malware company, today announced that Alexander Adamov will lead its new, expanded malware labs. Adamov joins Lavasoft from the Design and Test Lab, a research lab that provides malware analysis services for Kaspersky Labs.
The holiday shopping season is right around the corner and 'tis the season to be safe. These 5 tips will help you to safely shop online and to stay away from hackers, identity thieves and scammers.
Phishing is a deviously clever strategy used by cybercriminals to steal your personal information (e.g., username, password or banking account information) by fooling you in handing it over to them.
By masquerading themselves as legitimate institutions and businesses you know and trust, cyber thieves bait users to hand over their passwords, Facebook accounts, banking information and even SIN numbers.
Scammers absolutely love the holiday season. 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. As such, we compiled a list of Christmas scams you should beware of.
It's common to hear security vendors advise people to "keep their computer up to date with the latest patches" but what does that actually mean and why is it important?
Malware can infiltrate PCs via a number of attack surfaces, one of which being bugs in Windows and the programs on your PC.
Microsoft have published a Security Bulletin Summary for November 2011. A number of updates have been released including one "critical" and two "important" severity updates.
The patches address remote code execution, elevation of privilege and denial of service vulnerabilities. Importantly, an update has been released to patch the critical vulnerability in the TCP/IP stack (MS11-083). Microsoft report that "the vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a continuous flow of specially crafted UDP packets to a closed port on a target system."
An apparently modified version of the well-publicised Stuxnet worm has been discovered on a number of corporate computer systems in Europe. Analysis suggests that the malware, named Duqu (pronounced dyü-kyü), appears to be based on the Stuxnet source code, giving rise to the possibility that Duqu may have been developed either by the Stuxnet authors or by developers who have had access to the source code.
As the malware landscape evolves, it's helpful to understand how malware gets onto your machine. Knowing the bad guys' strategies gives you the edge while on-line and puts you in a stronger position to defend your data and PC against compromising threats.
We all know that we should install anti-malware software, keep it up to date and run regular scans, apply Windows and application security patches when they become available, use a firewall... well, I won't bore you - you know what to do. But what kind of attacks can we expect and where are they coming from?
Developing malware from scratch is a highly complex task that requires considerable skill and effort. In recent years, crimeware toolkits have taken the heavy lifting out of creating malware. Toolkits, such as MPack, Neospoit and Zeus, can be found for sale on underground hacking forums, lowering the skills barrier for would-be criminals. For a fee and with little effort, hackers can generate their own malware that can be used for stealing credit card details, passwords and other sensitive information.
Microsoft have published a Security Bulletin Summary for October 2011. Eight updates have been released including two "critical" and six "important" severity updates.
The patches address remote code execution, elevation of privilege and denial of service vulnerabilities within Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Forefront United Access Gateway and Microsoft Host Integration Server.
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