Malware Sales Through Social Networks

Social media has affected business organizations in many different ways through the years and these effects caused the development of a rather complicated relationship between the two. Social media has proven to be an effective marketing tool for businesses. Data collected last year from Fortune’s Global 100 revealed that more than 50 percent of [...]

What the New AMTSO Guidelines Mean for Users

Earlier this month, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) published new guidelines on the delicate topic of testing anti-malware products. Since then, many experts in the anti-malware industry have been commenting on the said guidelines. Many of these comments (including some from myself), have been summed up by tech blogger Kevin Townsend here. After [...]

For Sale: Fake POS Devices

Nowadays, hardware have become so cheap that cybercriminals can easily reproduce fake point-of-sale (POS) devices that can be used to skim data from credit and debit cards. In an underground forum, a certain “Nikkon” has posted a fake POS device with flash memory for sale. The device is notably identical to a normal-looking POS [...]

Lenovo Support Page Compromise Leads to BREDOLAB

Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo is the latest high-profile company to be compromised. Sometime over the past weekend, its support pages, which allowed users to download drivers and manuals, were compromised with the addition of a malicious iframe. The website in this malicious iframe led to the download of a BREDOLAB variant detected as TROJ_BREDOLAB.BY. This [...]

Fix-It Utilities Professional 10

Fix-It Utilities Professional 10 ($50, 14-day free trial) is an all-in-one tune-up and security tool that does everything from protecting your PC from viruses with built-in anti-malware, to repairing your Registry, performing hardware diagnostics, recovering lost photos, and more.

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