SnapChat-Like Apps Hide Content on Twitter, Facebook

Just when parents figured out SnapChat, an app that makes photo texts disappear, two new apps hit the social scene that achieve the same objective on both Twitter and Facebook. Twitterspirit allows a Twitter user to set a time limit for a tweet before it “self-destructs” in their feed. By using a hashtag (#) denoting any Read more…

Hidden Lynx – Professional Hackers for Hire

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For the past few years, reports have continued to emerge detailing the activities of actors behind various targeted attacks or Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). Here at Symantec Security Response, we’ve been keeping our eyes on a group that we …

Virus lab: team building

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Many of you might wonder how the virus lab works. Who are those guys setting behind the computers and analyzing malicious files. Well let us unveil some of the virus lab secrets and break stereotypes: 1. Virus lab team, doesn’t work in the laboratory 2. Virus analytic are real, nice human beings, not robots 3. Yes […]

Microsoft Security Advisory (2887505): Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution – Version: 1.0

Revision Note: V1.0 (September 17, 2013): Advisory published.
Summary: Microsoft is investigating public reports of a vulnerability in all supported versions of Internet Explorer. Microsoft is aware of targeted attacks that att…

Mirror Mirror Online, Who Is the Most Dangerous of Them All?

We all do it. We probably all just don’t admit it. Well I admit it—I’ve searched for that elusive picture of Kimye’s baby North (who I thought would be called Kadence, but I’m not in the know, which is why I’m on the search engines constantly). But what most of us don’t realize is that searching Read more…

The App Your Kids are Using Now: Vine

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Parents, do you recall seeing the icon below on your child’s iPhone the last time you perused their apps? If so, then your child has an account on a popular mobile application called ‘Vine’. Vine, which is owned by Twitter, enables users to create and post video clips with a maximum length of seven and Read more…

AVAST just gave away a new tablet! You could win too!

Congratulations to Steve L. from the USA who won Round 1 of the AVAST #SecurityTip contest being played now on the AVAST Facebook page. He answered this question about helping kids stay safe when they are using their home or school computers: Steve’s answer covered some of the basics that every computer user should remember: […]