Review: Norton AntiVirus 2010

The good Treads more lightly on your CPU than in the past Bolsters last year’s reputation-based detection engine with a new behavioural detection system The bad Doesn’t have the highest rate of detection Dramatic improvements to Norton over the past two years indicate that Symantec has been listening to the needs and complaints of [...]

Review: Norton Internet Security 2010

The good Surprisingly lightly CPU usage Bolsters last year’s reputation-based detection engine with a new behavioural-detection system The bad Still a fairly hefty CPU footprint New efficacy results show that while it continues to be in the top five apps at detecting malicious software, it still doesn’t have the highest rate of detection Dramatic [...]

Bogus Sponsored Link Leads to FAKEAV

Apart from SEO poisoning, cybercriminals have found another avenue to proliferate FAKEAV malware—bogus sponsored links (sitio patrocinados in Spanish). Just recently, Trend Micro researchers were alerted to malicious search engine ads that appeared in Microsoft’s Bing and AltaVista, among others, when a user searches the string “malwarebytes.” (Malwarebytes is a free antivirus product, but of course, not [...]

Google exec calls for ISPs to get tough on botnets

September 23rd, 2009 Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 8:01 amCategories:Adobe, Anti Virus, Arbitrary Code Execution, Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Exploit code, Flash, Google, Malware, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Responsible disclosure, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and AdwareTags:Incentive, Google Inc., Advertisement, Internet Service Provider, Malware, Service Provider, Internet Service, Davis, Ad Network, Internet Service Providers (ISPs)GENEVA [...]

Modern banker malware undermines two-factor authentication

Once pitched as an additional layer of security for E-banking transactions, two-factor authentication is slowly becoming an easy to bypass authentication process, to which cybercriminals have successfully adapted throughout the last couple of years. Modern banker malware, also known as crimeware, is now fully capable of bypassing the two-factor authentication obstacle by doing a simple [...]