SiteLock

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Adware, short for advertising supported software, is a type of unwanted software designed to put advertisements on your screen. It can occur on a computer, mobile phone, or another electronic device. The post What is adware? appeared first on The SiteLock Blog.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

” An adware group had already been using the bug in the wild. “[I think] this is likely the worst or potentially most impactful bug to everyday macOS users (who, let’s be honest, aren’t going to be targeted by nation-states wielding pure remote zero days),” Wardle said via electronic chat.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. “No seller on BHW has 150k working daily proxies none of us do. Which hints at a possible BOTNET.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The guide “provides definitive and concise guidance on how to harden the Apple systems,” said Patrick Wardle, a prominent Mac security researcher, designer, and author, via electronic chat. The new Platform Security Guide adds 40 pages – around a fifth of its total length – to last year’s edition.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Malware has infected roughly a third of the world’s computers , costing companies across the globe trillions of dollars each year. In the early ’70s, Bob Thomas, an engineer at BBN Technologies, wrote the Creeper worm , the first program able to self-replicate over a computer network. Website Malware Versus Computer Malware.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In July, we reported a rootkit that we found in modified Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware, the code that loads and initiates the boot process when the computer is turned on. Difficult to detect, they ensure that a computer remains infected even if someone reinstalls the operating system or replaces the hard drive.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Remote workers using corporate computers for entertainment purposes, such as online games, continue to pose financial threats organizations. Nevertheless, corporate computers used for entertainment purposes remain one of the most important ways to get initial access to a company’s network.

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