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Android Market is being hit with its largest malware infection yet according to Symantec

One of the big disadvantages over releasing an 'open' operating system is that because of its 'openness' it is also much more prone to malware attacks, as Microsoft has had to deal with over the years. The 'open' ... continue

Twitter Goes On The Defensive, Acquires Malware Protection Service

Twitter, the popular social network with over 200 Million users, acquired a spam and malware protection company. Anyone who uses the site is often familiar with accounts getting hacked and the sometimes abundant spam that gets targeted ... continue

Google has to remove 22 SMS apps infected with malware

It's kind of interesting to sit here and watch as the whole Android space begins to suffer from malware infections something that the Windows world had to deal with for much of its history, and gave the ... continue

Malicious malware link is being served up through Facebook chat

Having been around this computer thing, and the online world, for a long time I am never surprised when I hear of some new vector being exploited by malware and the people that create them. So hearing ... continue

Fake iTunes Gift Certificates Leading To Malware Infections

If you plan to buy your loved ones, friends and co-workers iTunes gift certificates this holiday season you might want to avoid e-mail offers for the cards. A group of 11 specialists are warning buyers of fake ... continue

The History Of Computer Viruses [Malware Infographic]

In 2010 a piece of malware known as Stuxnet was discovered it was the first known advanced computer virus designed specifically to sabotage nuclear power plants and is considered one of the first advanced weapons in cyber-warfare. ... continue

Mac trojan now equipped with OS X anti-virus nuking ability

While Mac users like to brag on and on about how they don't get viruses and other types of malware on their shiny objects of perfection recent events are proving otherwise, and to the degree that Apple ... continue

Study Reveals More Than 1 Million CyberCrime Victims Daily

A Norton by Symantec study revealed that the actual cost of global cybercrime is $114 billion annually. What is more shocking is the total bill for cybercrime footed by online adults in 24 countries placed at $274 ... continue

The battleground of malware no longer just Windows as Android users get hit

When it comes to things like viruses, trojans, and other forms of malware Windows has always been the biggest bulls-eye in the computing world. Both Mac and Linux have claimed that because of the way that they are ... continue

Hey Gruber, You Might Want to Reconsider Crying Wolf

The other day John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame and unofficial spokesman for Apple wrote a post full of quotes from other dated posts where the writers were brazen enough to suggest that Mac's long safe harbor ... continue

What people don’t know about computer security is hilarious – yet scary

Some of you may remember when one of the more popular tech related YouTube videos floating around was what people thought the web browser or the fact that Google was the Internet. Well taking that idea of ... continue

New Android threat – applications can silently download nasty apps

As smartphones continue to grow in popularity and use the idea of them becoming an increasingly important vector for people who want to steal your information. At the Intel Security Conference in Hillboro, Oregon, two researchers plan ... continue

Can’t sell enough security software? Scare your users into buying.

One of the standards ways that anyone with a modicum of Web and software experience will be able to tell the good from the bad is how the company tries to sell you on their products. For malware ... continue

The best anti-virus applications for 2010

While I try and fight off my yearly bout with the flu I thought that this post would be kind of apropos - virus, flu, ya okay bad attempt at humor. Anyway AV Test has released their results for ... continue

But I thought Macs didn’t need security software?

It never fails that when some-one using Windows posts a question regarding security and malware the most common response has been things like get real security buy a Mac or I use a Mac so I don't ... continue

WARNING: A new Twitter phishing attack

Okay I'm not totally sure if this is absolutely new, as in the last 24 hours, or not but I figured that better to be safe than sorry eh. I just got the following email in my inbox ... continue

Google – the new playground of malware scum

It's bad enough when regular sites get hijacked by people who want to fill your computer with all kinds of spyware and other assorted types of malware but when they start manipulating Google search results I think ... continue

Swarm intelligence for cutting edge cyber security

In the battle to keep computer networks safe we are use to using tools like resourcing hogging anti-virus and other malware scanning methods. The problem is that in many cases this is more like ... continue

Rogue ad battle at New York Times

According to Steven Musil at cnet Security The New York Times is in the midst of a battle to get rid of a what they are terming “an unauthorized advertisement”. In typical fashion ... continue

Linux not so pure and safe after all

For almost as long as there has been OS wars the mantra of the penguin herders has been that the likelihood of Linux ever being vulnerable to tings like viruses and trojans was next ... continue

OS X’s changing security landscape

There’s a lot of talk going on in the tech blogosphere about the newest release of OS X, Snow Leopard, coming to market with a built-in malware scanner. Now that it has shipped we ... continue

Snow Leopard ships with malware blocker (Wha??)

After years of lording over Windows the fact that Mac OS X doesn’t, or couldn’t get attacked by malware Apple’s next version of OS X, Snow Leopard, is being shipped with as malware blocker. ... continue