The security community is buzzing with news of a threat called Heartbleed. The bug reportedly affects nearly two-thirds of all websites, including Yahoo Mail, OKCupid, WeTransfer, and others. The bug takes advantage of a vulnerability in OpenSSL, an open-source protocol used to encrypt vast portions of the web. It allows cybercrooks to steal encryption keys, usernames […]
We prepared a special office equipment for our COO and CTO this year on 1st April. They didn’t expect that we were able to prepare better prank than last year. This year the prank consisted of several stages office moved to a new location office filled up with balloons hints of new office location hidden […]
We prepared a special office equipment for our COO and CTO this year on 1st April. They didn’t expect that we were able to prepare better prank than last year. This year the prank consisted of several stages office moved to a new location office filled up with balloons hints of new office location hidden […]
Smartphone owners are careless about security, says smartphone survey. Guys are more likely to get a virus on their smartphone than girls (36% vs 32%), and more than one third (34%) of survey respondents don’t have any anti-theft or antivirus security on their smartphones. Add to that nearly half of the people AVAST polled in […]
Question of the week: After the latest avast! update, I got a warning from the Microsoft Action Center that my antivirus is not working. It is working fine. How can I get this warning to go away? The Microsoft Action Center is a central place to view important messages about security and maintenance and take […]
When Albert Schweitzer said “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory” he could not have possibly known how unhappy future Systems Administrators would be when they have a scheduled maintenance window to deploy anti-virus clients throughout the domain, only to realize that the password to log into the console has been […]
Do you know the notion “machine war”? If you’re a fan of the Matrix movie trilogy then probably, yes. It denotes the fictional rise of artificially intelligent machines against the human race and their violent conquest of human beings. We want to apply a similar dominance of computationally powerful machines, not to create a population […]
In this blogpost we will look deep into a spam campaign, where unlike other possible scenarios, the victim is infected by opening and running an email attachment. In the beginning of this year, we blogged about a spam campaign with a different spam message – a fake email from the popular WhatsApp messenger. This time […]
Does the title of this blog post have a mysterious meaning? Not exactly. In this first part about the gray-zone of Android malware detections, I will introduce the Android:SecApk, a detection regarding the protection that the App Shield (Bangcle) offers to Android applications (.apk). This detection has a big sample set that is still growing. […]
Your world is on your mobile devices and PC: Your family photos, home videos, documents and emails. Unfortunately, you can lose it in an instance. For those folks who haven’t backed up their files, that means disaster. Today is World BackUp Day. Be prepared. Backup your files on March 31st. Did you know? 113 cellphones are […]