Saturday, November 2nd, 2013
With every website you visit, you’re vulnerable to malicious hackers out to steal your surfing history, passwords, email access, bank account numbers, medical info, and more. And the “big browsers” don’t do enough to stop it.
But now you can protect yourself before you go on the Web – with WhiteHat ...
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Friday, November 1st, 2013
Google is adding several security updates to its Chrome browser, including automatic malware blocking and the option to reset browser settings.
Newer, stealthier browser malware is released through things like free screensavers, video plug-ins, or fake security updates. It then hides, making it difficult for users to find and uninstall the ...
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Friday, October 25th, 2013
There's a big threat wiling around on the Internet right now: A particularly nasty piece of ransomware called Cryptolocker. Many, many organizations are being infected with this malware, but fortunately, there are surefire ways to avoid it and also ways to mitigate the damage without letting the lowlifes win.
What is ...
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Friday, October 25th, 2013
Sigcheck is a command-line utility that shows file version number, timestamp information, and digital signature details, including certificate chains.
Version 2.0 adds integration with the VirusTotal antivirus scanner aggregation service. Sigcheck can now check the status of a file against over 40 antivirus engines and launch the associated online VirusTotal report, and ...
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Friday, October 25th, 2013
On Thursday, Google's Safe Browsing service began warning visitors to php.net that the website was discovered serving malware. Initially, most people and PHP maintainers thought that it was a false positive, but subsequent investigation confirmed that some of the project's servers did get compromised.
The hackers succeeded in injecting malicious JavaScript code (userprefs.js) ...
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