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Small Business Security Calls for Vigilance, Tools
Your small business network may be under attack by cybercriminals. We don't need any inside information to know this, and it is not a scare line. It is a basic fact of business in the Internet age. Unlike "brick-and-mortar" thieves, who have to spend time and effort...
Bundle Backup from Carbonite and SAVE!
Customers purchasing antivirus from us can now bundle backup solutions from Carbonite - as an authorized Carbonite Reseller - we are offering Carbonite as our preferred backup solution for home + small business users. Carbonite offers univalled ease of use for both...
British intelligence reportedly intercepted LinkedIn and Slashdot traffic to plant malware
German newspaper Der Spiegel reports that British spy agency GCHQ set up fake LinkedIn and Slashdot pages to plant malware within Belgacom, a Belgian telecommunications company. Using a method called "quantum insert," the GCHQ was reportedly able to preempt legitimate...
Microsoft may end antivirus updates for XP in April
Source: ZDNet Security Summary: If you continue to use Windows XP after it goes end-of-life next April you won't just be without security patches. You'll be without signature updates for your Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus. Just days after sending a clear...
The holy grail of malware found? BadBIOS spreads by sound – or does it?
Somewhere in a Russian computer laboratory, researchers are claiming to have contained the holy grail of computer viruses - a piece of malware which can spread without wifi, can infect PCs, Macs and Linux machines alike - and affects the Bios of the computer - the...
Solutions to current antivirus challenges
The detection and blocking of malicious code employed by modern threats, whether targeted attacks or mass-spreading campaigns, has been a game of cat-and-mouse with the perpetrators for some time now. And even though we are seeing shifts in the threat landscape and...
The end? ‘Passwords are done,’ says Google security chief
"Passwords are done at Google," said Heather Adkins, Google’s information security chief – and said that "the game is over" for start-ups relying on passwords as the chief method to keep users secure. Adkins said that within Google, looking towards the future, "Our...
Virulent cryptolocker ransomware – lockdown your PC NOW!
There is a particularly nasty piece of ransomware going round - it's name is cryptolocker. It is so named because it will encrypt and lock your files. When they malware (cryptolocker) has done this, the software will demand that you pay the authors money to release...
ESET NOD32 won’t start… Analysis of application protocols not functioning
ESET v7 won't install properly - Error includes: Analysis of application protocols not functioning Download the ESET Safe Mode Uninstaller Tools - restart the computer into safe mode and run the tool REPEATEDLY until no more programs are found (might take 2 or 3...
One-third Internet users face malware attack in July-September
NEW DELHI: About one-third of Internet users in the country were attacked by web-borne malicious programmes or malwares during the July-September period this year, a report by security solutions provider Kaspersky has said. Kaspersky Lab products detected 21,946,308...
FBI: “Beta Bot” Malware Kills Your Anti-Virus And Steals Data
This week, the FBI sent out a warning that a commercial strain of malware known as "Beta Bot" can turn off your antivirus, stops access to the websites of antivirus vendors so that your antivirus program cannot call home for fresh definitions, and steals your user...
Has ESET Social Media Scanner found a threat on your profile? Here is how to remove it…
Issue: A threat or suspicious object (private message, chat or wall/timeline post, for example) is detected on Facebook by the ESET Social Media Scanner Watch the video tutorial here: ESET Social Media Scanner facebook App - removing a threat
September 2013 Flood News
We are safe - and on "higher ground" - we do not expect flooding to breach our home or offices - but flooding issues are affecting surrounding regions and power might become an issue - stay tuned to this post for latest news - all webservers are in other states - we...
In a rush? Five two-minute tips to make yourself more secure right now
Performing a "cyber spring clean" can be time-consuming – but many of us have a few weaknesses we can tighten up in two minutes or less. Whether it's a PIN you thought up in a rush – which a cybercriminal could guess just as easily – or an option you forgot to switch...
Fake CNN emails claim US have started bombing Syria
According to Kaspersky Lab, spam is being found which pretends to come from CNN - and is claiming that the US has begun bombing Syria: Clicking the shortened link will lead to an exploit kit which targets older, vulnerable versions of Adobe Reader and Java. The...
KasperskyLabs: Sophisticated Android Trojan Spreads Through Mobile Botnet
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab say a sophisticated piece of Google Android malware is being blasted out via a mobile botnet spamming victims with text messages containing malicious links. The Trojan – Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a – is being distributed alongside another...
ESET Takes Virus Bulletin (VB100) Award Number 81!
ESET NOD32 Antivirus has achieved the longest unbroken string of Virus Bulletin VB100 Awards — a testament to the consistent high-quality performance of ESET security across all platforms. In its latest August comparative review, Virus Bulletin has called ESET a...
More android malware found being distributed via mobile ad network malware…
PC World - 8/13/2013: Many android apps have mobile ads - it is the primary funding method for a lot of software developers - and mobile ad networks have been the target of many malware authors - if they can get their malicious code on the ad networks, all they need...
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