Apr 17, 2012 | Virus & AntiVirus News
AV-Comparatives.org are happy to announce the participants of their annual public test-series of 2012: International participants: AhnLab (NEW), Avast, AVG, AVIRA, Bitdefender, Bullguard (NEW), eScan, ESET, Fortinet (NEW), F-Secure, G DATA, GFI (NEW), Kaspersky,...
Apr 17, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
By Christina Bonnington Mac users were once relatively insulated from malware attacks, if only because their OS platform didn’t attract the attention of criminals. But now a spike in security threats is making it clear that the bad guys are no longer ignoring...
Apr 16, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
by Pierre-Marc Bureau Senior Malware Researcher The biggest Mac botnet ever encountered, the OSX/Flashback botnet, is being hit hard. On April 12th, Apple released a third Java update since the Flashback malicious code outbreak. This update includes a new tool called...
Apr 16, 2012 | General Security
by Cameron Camp Security Researcher We recently highlighted a security walkthrough on Pinterest.com, the pinboard style sharing website that’s taking the social media by storm. Since then, they’ve continued to grow, and continued to have accompanying...
Apr 16, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
Security software vendor Sophos and game maker Rovio warn about a Trojan horse pretending to be the popular Angry Birds Space game. Malware authors are using the popularity of the Angry Birds series of games as a way to infect the smartphones of users who download the...
