Archive for the ‘Malware’ Category

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Surviving In A Post LulzSec And Anonymous Online World

True, while the group LulzSec may be disbanded and it’s members have either disappeared or been arrested (or arrested even more so), Anonymous is still here and the ideals that Anonymous portrays will probably live on for quite some time. It almost seems like we are back in the early 1990′s – website defacements, denial-of-service attacks and SQL [...]

Facebook Begins Adding Two-Factor Authentication

If you remember, a few weeks back I posted about Google offering two-factor authentication for GMail.   Well it seems that Facebook now wants to jump on the two-factor train.

Dropbox Security: Was The Ball “Dropped”?

I’m an avid user myself of the cloud service known as Dropbox.  I like being able to store things in the cloud that I can access from pretty much anywhere; regardless of what platform or operating system I’m using at that current moment in time.  

Malware Found On United States Postal Service’s Website

Malware has been found on the USPS Rapid Information Bulletin Board System (RIBBS) website.

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Threats of Mobile Malware Will Emerge As Devices Replace Our Wallets

Mobile devices such as iPhones, Android phones, iPads, Xooms, Windows Phone 7, and others, are on the verge of both great and not-so-great things. As these mobile devices gain popularity and continue to come down in costs, they become attractive to businesses, consumers and especially malicious individuals.

Vigilante Android App Is Malware

When I first read this story I thought this was another account of malware on the Android phones (I’m glad I’m an iPhone user).  Once I dived into the story, I actually laughed a bit over this one.

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Malware Demystified

Viruses, worms, trojans, adware, and crimeware….oh my! Other than being extremely difficult and time consuming to remove from a computer, these all have at least one other thing in common – they’re all known as malware (shudder).