The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization yesterday announced its members, which include more than 15 security firms specializing in combating malicious code, have adopted test principles and best practices they hope will eventually help unify the industry in the sphere of malware-code testing and reporting.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (bbc.co.uk) was hit by a DDoS attack on Thursday, according to a statement sent to the Inquirer :“In a statement to the INQ, the BBC said the attack originated in a number of different countries but didn’t specify which. When the Beeb’s techies blocked international access to a limited subset of [...]
Yesterday, a signatures update pushed by AVG falsely labeled a critical Windows file as a banker malware, prompting the company to quickly fix the issue and issue a workaround, following end users complaints at its support forums.
AVG’s false positive causing downtime for Windows users is happening a week after Rising antivirus apologized to its customers [...]
