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Beware of fake Windows 8 key generators
When something is in high demand, it usually does not take long before it is being exploited in one way or the other.
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Warning: Proxtube extension injects ads
Proxtube is a highly popular extension for Google Chrome and Firefox that can bypass country related restrictions on YouTube.
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Skype disables password reset system after vulnerability disclosure
Skype's password reset system is vulnerable to an attack that gives attackers full control over affected accounts.
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Microsoft Security Bulletins For November 2012 Released
Today's Microsoft "Patch Tuesday" brings six security bulletins that patch vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and the Microsoft .
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Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit Beta is out
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is without doubt one of the most popular and efficient tools when it come to protecting Windows PCs from malware and other malicious c
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MasterCard Display Card: the future of credit cards?
Credit cards are widely used throughout the world to make purchases, and while they are more in use in some countries than in others, they are a widely accepted
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Microsoft applies for Big Brother DRM patent
Digital Rights Management comes in a number of forms.
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Protect your Blizzard account with Battle.net Authenticator
The popularity of games developed by Blizzard Entertainment make user accounts a high profile target.
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X-Ray 2.0 VirusTotal frontend with a batch of extra features
If you are in the business of downloading and testing lots of different applications, you better make sure that the programs that you run on your PC are clean a
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Apple removes Java support from Safari
I have removed Java from my system some time ago and never looked back.
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Yes you can bypass PayPal's Security Code login
When I noticed an unauthorized payment done with my PayPal account in 2008, I immediately ordered a VeriSign Identity Protection device to add a second layer of
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Beware of image search engine poisoning
A recent analysis of the use of search engine poisoning to drive web traffic to payday loan sites by Sophos virus researcher Fraser Howard suggests that the maj
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Encrypt all data on your Android phone
One of the first things that I decided to do of after getting my new Samsung Galaxy Note 2 smartphone was to protect the data stored on the phone's memory space
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Microsoft: Windows XP has the highest infection rate
Microsoft has released its latest bi-annually Security Intelligence Report covering the first half of 2012 which offering a worldwide threat assessment for that
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Comodo Releases Internet Security 2013 Beta
Computer security and anti-virus company Comodo have rolled out the first beta version of their Internet Security 2013 suite of utilities.
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Splitting passwords up to increase security
Splitting passwords up could be the next big thing next to 2-factor authentication schemes which companies such as Google, Facebook or PayPal have offered as an
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Microsoft Security Bulletins For October 2012 Released
Microsoft released an out-of-band security update for Internet Explorer 10's integrated Flash Player yesterday which updated the version of Flash to the latest
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How to verify link targets before you click on links
Yesterday's post about a new virus attack on Skype has shown that it is important to verify link targets before you click on the links.
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Beware of hey is this your skype profile pic messages
A new virus is making the rounds that is affecting the Skype communication software.
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Beware of fake Chrome Angry Birds extensions
One common theme among malicious users is to hop on the bandwagon of a popular item on the Internet to capitalize from the public's desire for information or ac
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GAuth Authenticator: use Google 2-Step Authentication without mobile phone
2-step authentication, sometimes also called 2-factor authentication, adds a second authorization step to the sign in process or other processes on the Internet.
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ExploitShield: new anti-exploit software for Windows
Traditional options to protect a computer from malware and exploits often rely on knowledge of the exploit or an exploit family to detect it.
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Mozilla Persona Beta launched
Mozilla Persona, formerly known as BrowserID and not to be confused with the theme switching feature Personas, is Mozilla's attempt to change how users sign up
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Avira Free Antivirus 2013 released
Not everything that security company Avira did in recent times has received a positive reception by the company's user base.
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Oh no, yet another Java vulnerability discovered
Some time ago I made the decision to ditch Java completely on my system.
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Pandora Radio: local storage reveals password and other data
Pandora Radio is a popular audio streaming website that is currently only available for users connecting from the United States (either directly or through the
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Windows Secrets Newsletter website hacked
Windows Secrets is known by many for its newsletter that gets sound out regularly to free and paid subscribers of the site.
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New Internet Explorer 0-day Vulnerability (Sept. 2012)
Microsoft has published a security advisory today that is informing system administrators and end users about a new 0-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explo
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LastPass Sentry: automatic leak checks for leaks
The online password management service LastPass has a new security feature that aims to reduce the time it takes to inform users if some of their account inform
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Time to malware-scan new PCs before first use
You have probably heard about PCs being infected in China with malware in factories as part of the manufacturing process.
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Windows 8 Built-in File Backup
There is perhaps no more important thing for users to do than backup their files.
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Encrypt and erase to delete data reliable on SSDs
The security of data on Solid State Drives (SSDs) is not only important for government agencies and enterprises, but also for end users.
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Babylon Toolbar backup option appears broken
Every other free software program seems to include a third party toolbar offer in its installer nowadays.
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Blizzard watermarking WoW screenshots
Anyone still playing Blizzards highly successful MMORPG World of Warcraft? Then you are probably used to Blizzard's Warden client running all the time in the ba
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Microsoft Security Bulletins For September 2012 Released
Yes it is that day of the month again.
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Microsoft's minimum certificate key length update may cause technical issues
Microsoft will release an automatic update for Windows on October 9, 2012 that is making a minimum certificate key length of 1024 bits mandatory for digital cer
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Google acquires online virus scanning service Virustotal
My go to service for scanning individual files online for malicious code is VirusTotal.
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How to uninstall the AVG Security Toolbar
AVG Technologies AVG Security Toolbar is included in the company's latest range of security software, as a standalone application, and as a third party offer in
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Encrypt Files and Folders in Windows 8 with EFS
For those using Windows 8 there is built-in file encryption, called Bit-Locker, available, but only if you are using the Pro or Enterprise version of the operat
