anti-virus
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97% Of Data Breaches Are Avoidable
Another day, another data breach—at least it seems that way. With 70,000 new malware threats popping up each day, it makes sense. Threats must be getting sneakier, more complex and harder to stop, right? Wrong.
Read the rest >“Dude, Where’s My App?”
We’ve all pocket-dialed someone at least once in our lives. Maybe been guilty of pocket-deleting an app or two. It’s no big deal, you just reinstall it. But what if it wasn’t you who deleted it? What if it was Google, Apple or Microsoft—using the “kill switch”?
Read the rest >Symantec Reports pcAnywhere Vulnerability
Yesterday Symantec surprised many of us with an announcement to disable its’ pcAnywhere software. It seems the irrelevant source code that was stolen in 2006 wasn’t so irrelevant to hackers. Now the anti-virus software you use to protect yourself from threats is what hackers are using to attack you.
Read the rest >Virus Scan? Time To Go For Lunch!
Many antivirus solutions are still being built on what’s called “legacy code”. It’s like trying to keep an old car running without taking the old motor out and putting a new one in.
Read the rest >Much Ado About Duqu
A new buzzword compliant piece of malware made headlines this week. Duqu is a next generation zero-day advanced persistent threat. A nasty threat, but you can easily protect yourself from it.
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