You know you’ve really made it as an anti-virus company when intelligence agencies like the NSA and the United Kingdom’s GCHQ are looking for vulnerabilities in your software, and interested in spying on the emails that your customers send you about new malware.
Security researchers have discovered a criminal campaign exploiting the YouTube platform, where some of the site’s most popular videos have had malicious adverts displayed alongside them.
Learn more in my article on the Optimal Security blog.
Are Americans dumber than Russians?
Wait. You don’t have to rush to answer that, because a computer security company has done the hard work for you, and come to a definitive conclusion.
VIDEOEarlier this week, NBC News broadcast a sensational report about the dangers of taking computers to the Sochi Olympics in Russia.
Unfortunately, it’s complete bunk - and badly misrepresents the facts.
As if CryptoLocker wasn’t causing enough problems by infecting and locking thousands of innocent users’ Windows computers, security researchers have discovered a new variant of the ransomware that takes its propagation to a new level.
VIDEORead more in my article at Naked Security.
Read more in my article at Naked Security.
If you have visited the website of anti-virus company Trend Micro this week there is a chance that your computer has been exposed to malware.
According to reports in the Japanese media, a number of webpages on the firm’s Japanese and English-language website were altered by hackers on Sunday 9 March, who used a malicious iFrame exploit to deliver a Trojan horse onto surfers’ computers.
