PayPal, eBay, HSBC Top-Phished Institutions; China and Russia Hosting Majority of Malware – Predictions for Malware Activity Over The Second Half of the Year Today BitDefender, released a report that found the first half of 2010 saw a rise of worms exploiting various Web 2.0 platforms. The report examined data from January through June 2010 and found social networks and Web 2.0 services have... 

A mass mail invitation to a suspicious “do-it-yourself” account hacking session puts Windows Live Messenger users at risk. The e-mail marking the first step of this data harvesting scheme is very likely to go down in the history of cybercrime-generated fiction on human behavior – claiming that if you tell people something is illegal, they won’t do it. This is how the promised tool gets... 

Success stories are cybercriminals’ go to sources of victims and the iPad craze couldn’t have been left out of this picture. According to some reports, Apple sold 150.000 iPads in the first 60 hours of presale availability, with almost 100.000 of these coveted devices being pre-ordered in the first 10 hours. The figures make it clear as daylight why malware creators were so keen on crashing this... 

As more and more people are using Google Chrome and its functionalities to browse the net and to organize information, cybercriminals have set their minds on exploiting this environment to spread malware and steal users’ information. The story is simple: Google Chrome users receive an unsolicited e-mail which announces that a new extension of their favorite browser has been developed to facilitate... 

A malware-spreading mechanism targeting the “iPhone unlocking” fans goes to prove that cybercrime is never short of imagination. This is how the story goes: you receive an e-mail in which you find out that you might get your hands on a new version of an iPhone unlocking application which basically allows you to overcome vendor set network restrictions. All you have to do is….yes, click a link... 

BitDefender today has released an emergency update to shield users against the newly-discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7. Microsoft has detailed the attack scenarios in security advisor #981374, announcing that a patch is being made in order to mitigate the vulnerability. Users running Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 can get infected by simply visiting a specially crafted... 

If you want to confirm that your site is free from malware than Google Safe Browsing tool may help you. To use this tool, just append a URL to the end of  the following code and put it in address bar and hit enter http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site= For example, to test my site (beingpc), you would enter http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://beingpc.com/ Google... 

BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions, today cautioned online daters about the increased security risks associated with looking for love online this year and their unique susceptibility to identity theft and online scams. While there are many respectable and reliable e-dating services, online daters should be extremely careful when choosing the best... 

Well this post is for those kind of people who usually don’t install any antivirus program and also for those who uses antivirus for security. You may have seen that sometime your antivirus could not detect a virus/malware etc. but the other antivirus do that. So it seems difficult for you to uninstall your favorite antivirus program and install a new one, as two antivirus can not work simultaneously... 

Most of the viruses when attacks your computer they disables Taskmanager, so that you can’t kill the process/program (ie running virus) most of you got stuck when a nasty virus enters your Computer and take away all your happiness. You try hard to find the exe file name of this virus to kill it, but worst it disbales your taskmanager therefore you are not able to know which processs are running. Do...