Posts Tagged ‘Symantec’
Royal Wedding Brings Out the Cyber Criminals
Cyber criminals are exploiting the world’s fascination with the British Royal Wedding, which is taking place on Friday. They’re using the attention the event is getting to bolster spam campaigns and push rogue antivirus software through black hat search tactics, according to security firm Symantec. “As with any major event, criminals have been quick to take advantage of the online attention,” a Symantec representative tells WebProNews.
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Royal Wedding Brings Out the Cyber Criminals
One Out Of Five Facebook Users May Be Exposed To Malware
However careful you’ve been when using Facebook up until now, it may be time to grow even more cautious.? New stats from BitDefender indicate that at least one out of five Facebook users have been exposed to threats via their news feeds. That conclusion’s based on data from BitDefender’s Safego app, and may actually be conservative.? The data doesn’t cover whatever’s been sent through private messages, for example.? Plus, the 14,000 or so people who have downloaded the security-related app might be a little more paranoid than the average Farmville-obsessed individual, and they might have more security-conscious friends
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One Out Of Five Facebook Users May Be Exposed To Malware
Threats to Expect in Mobile, Social, Location and Email in 2011
It’s getting late in the year, and it’s about time to start looking forward to 2011. While we can speculate about a great many topics, few trends are going to be as important to anticipate as those related to security. We asked an expert in the field about some of the things he is anticipating
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Threats to Expect in Mobile, Social, Location and Email in 2011
