Adam Levin

JANUARY 27, 2020

A subsidiary of Avast antivirus is selling sensitive user browsing data to many companies, including Revlon, Microsoft, Google, Yelp, Condé Nast, and TripAdvisor. According to the Motherboard article, “multiple Avast users… were not aware Avast sold browsing data, raising questions about how informed that consent is.”. On every site.”.

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Data collection Antivirus Software Malware 243

Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Good article on the evolution of ransomware : Though some researchers say that the scale and severity of ransomware attacks crossed a bright line in 2020, others describe this year as simply the next step in a gradual and, unfortunately, predictable devolution. After years spent honing their techniques, attackers are growing bolder.

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Ransomware Antivirus 259

Adam Levin

JANUARY 30, 2020

Avast will phase out Jumpshot, a subsidiary that sells user browsing data gleaned from its antivirus and security products. . “I The article resulted in a torrent of negative publicity for the company, especially for its promise to deliver data on “every search. Every click. On every site.” On every site.”

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Data collection Antivirus Software 165

CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Studies show that CSO readers are most likely to know that endpoint protection is the modern iteration of the antivirus tools of previous generations. Antivirus, more appropriately known as antimalware, has matured significantly since the days of dedicated antivirus servers, daily signature updates, and manually managed policies.

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Antivirus CSO Spyware Phishing 124

CSO Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

At first, most of the cyber insurance questions involved basic computer security and merely checked to see if we had firewalls and antivirus and not much else. Now the questions suggest that insurance providers understand that network security includes much more than antivirus software.

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Cyber Insurance Insurance Antivirus Firewall 115

CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

I have seen macro changes such as the rotation of antivirus solutions from the endpoint to the gateway and back again, as well as the bundling of endpoint security products such as antivirus, antispyware, host intrusion prevention, and application control into an endpoint protection platform ( EPP ).

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Antivirus Risk Encryption Technology 111

Hacker Combat

MAY 19, 2021

As many antivirus companies continue to work diligently to develop features that can safeguard your data, the question that arises among many android users is, does Avast free protect against ransomware in mobile devices? The antivirus can be used on multiple devices. As such, it has become one of the biggest targets for hackers.

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Mobile Antivirus Ransomware Backups 111

CSO Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

No organization would be caught without firewalls and antivirus scanners to catch low-sophistication attacks, but the real battle to protect the network has moved to the realm of identity and access management (IAM). [ To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Antivirus Firewall Cybersecurity 118

Acunetix

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

You protect your every office computer with an antivirus. This article is aimed at website owners that are. You install firewalls to prevent unwanted access to your network. But what do you do to secure your website? And what can happen if it’s not secured?

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Hacking Antivirus Firewall 98

Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2021

News article : Most troublingly, Activision says that the “cheat” tool has been advertised multiple times on a popular cheating forum under the title “new COD hack.” “Guides for cheats will typically ask users to disable or uninstall antivirus software and host firewalls, disable kernel code signing, etc.”

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Software Malware Antivirus Advertising 205

CSO Magazine

MARCH 16, 2022

SIEM software (pronounced ‘sim’; the ‘e’ is silent) collects and aggregates log and event data generated throughout the organization’s technology infrastructure, from host systems and applications to network and security devices such as firewalls and antivirus filters. To read this article in full, please click here

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Antivirus Firewall Technology Software 122

CSO Magazine

JUNE 2, 2023

In a separate report, Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab said that several dozen of its senior employees and upper management were targeted as part of the operation, although unlike the FSB, the company did not attribute the attack to any specific state. "The To read this article in full, please click here

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Spyware Antivirus 108

Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

A recent article released by cybersecurity and antivirus firm Bitdefender shows that 8.4 2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data. billion records have already been exposed, and that’s only accounting for the first quarter of 2020.

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Data breaches Social Engineering Antivirus Scams 252

CSO Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

The threat uses what researchers from antivirus vendor Sophos call “intermittent encryption,” meaning it only encrypts chunks of data inside a file instead of its complete contents. To read this article in full, please click here A new ransomware threat called LockFile has been victimizing enterprises worldwide since July.

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Encryption Ransomware CSO Antivirus 125

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2020

Bernardo Quintero is the manager at VirusTotal , a service owned by Google that scans any submitted files against dozens of antivirus services and displays the results. The last time that August 2018 file was scanned at VirusTotal (Aug 14, 2020), it was detected as a malicious Java trojan by 28 of 59 antivirus programs.

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Antivirus Malware Software 353

CSO Magazine

MARCH 15, 2022

“This case involves patented technologies that helped to revolutionize, and have become widely adopted in, the fields of malware detection, network security, and endpoint protection” and are used in security products such as Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus, it continued. To read this article in full, please click here

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Marketing Antivirus Media Technology 126

CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

When Anton Chuvakin, then a Gartner Analyst, first coined the term endpoint detection and response (EDR) in 2013, most enterprises raced to replace antivirus (AV) with EDR. Peter pointed out that only 30% of endpoints have EDR protection in place: To read this article in full, please click here

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Antivirus 94

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2022

Here’s an article that throws some light on this issue and will help in providing the best one to offer uninterrupted business and peace of mind. Avast- Avast CloudCare solution that protects data, devices, and users is a hit in the enterprise sector and its antivirus solutions are free.

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Cybersecurity Antivirus System Administration Threat Detection 104

CSO Magazine

MAY 18, 2022

I've never felt a need for a Linux antivirus program. To read this article in full, please click here I've been running the Linux desktop since the great desktop debate was between C Shell and Bash. But, that's not to say that I thought I could get away without Linux desktop or server security. Far from it!

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Software Antivirus IoT Malware 85

CSO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

We hope that our antivirus or endpoint protection software alerts us to problems. To read this article in full, please click here Those victims should have known better than to click on an email that said ILOVEYOU, but they did and had to clean up afterwards. In reality, it often does not. Here are four ways they do it.

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Antivirus Scams Technology Phishing 77

CSO Magazine

JULY 6, 2022

Rather than installing malicious software on your network that antivirus software might flag, attackers use the code already there to launch attacks. To read this article in full, please click here Living off the land is not the title of a gardening book. It’s the goal of attackers going after your network.

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Antivirus Software Cybersecurity 71

CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“The most notable tool delivered by the attackers was a user-mode module that gained the ability to read and write kernel memory due to the CVE-2021-21551 vulnerability in a legitimate Dell driver,” security researchers from antivirus firm ESET said in a recent report. To read this article in full, please click here

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Antivirus Manufacturing Software 81

CSO Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

To date, combatting it involves upgrading antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) software, while educating users not to click on “suspicious” attachments or links. To read this article in full, please click here Phishing has been around for 20 years, and it will continue as long as there is money to be made.

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Phishing Antivirus Education Software 98

Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

The term “FUD” in those names stands for “ F ully U n- D etectable,” and it refers to cybercrime resources that will evade detection by security tools like antivirus software or anti-spam appliances. “Please remove this article,” Sam Raza wrote, linking to the 2021 profile. But on Jan.

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Phishing Cybercrime Malware Advertising 221

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 20, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore the different types of spyware and how you can detect them on your computer. To detect Trojans, you should regularly scan your computer with an antivirus program. A good antivirus program can detect and remove Trojans from your system before they can cause any damage.

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Adware Spyware Antivirus Passwords 52

CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The response is often to throw scanning engines and antivirus products at workstations, but all that does is delay boot up times and logging into the network. To read this article in full, please click here

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Authentication Firewall Antivirus Engineering 86

CSO Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2022

The targets included industrial plants, design bureaus, research institutes, and government ministries, agencies, and departments, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab, which investigated the attack campaign. To read this article in full, please click here

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Antivirus Government 73

CSO Magazine

MAY 18, 2022

At $3 per user per month, it takes the place of your traditional antivirus solution that you may have deployed in your office. To read this article in full, please click here Defender for Business makes it easier to deploy EDR in a reasonable fashion and in an affordable package.

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Antivirus 68

CSO Magazine

JUNE 14, 2022

Those of you working in security in the early 2000s may remember installing independent firewall and antivirus software on every endpoint. To read this article in full, please click here One of those was the insistence on best-of-breed security technologies. Security “server huggers” saw any suggestion of change as blasphemy.

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Firewall Antivirus Technology Cybersecurity 68

CSO Magazine

JULY 20, 2022

I’ve seen many a phishing lure come in via web links, pretend cloud services, and other techniques that bypass traditional antivirus and file filtering. To read this article in full, please click here

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Antivirus Phishing Education 72

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 27, 2023

In this article, we will explore the concept of smartphone ransomware, its potential consequences, and most importantly, the measures you can take to protect yourself from this growing menace. 3. Install Antivirus Software: Utilize a reliable mobile security solution that can detect and prevent ransomware infections.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sure Click Enterprise’s isolation approach far exceeds the capabilities of detection and blocking technologies such as antivirus, whitelisting, web gateways, and sandboxes. To read this article in full, please click here

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Antivirus Technology 68

CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Microsoft quickly released an Exchange On-premises Mitigation Tool (EOMT) along with automatic mitigation included in Microsoft Defender Antivirus and System Center endpoint protection. To read this article in full, please click here

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Antivirus Internet Internet Risk 93

Identity IQ

JANUARY 4, 2024

This article gives you an overview of how to safely enjoy gift cards and answers the burning question, “What is a gift card draining scam?” What is a Gift Card Draining Scam? ” What is Gift Card Draining? IdentityIQ offers a complete collection of resources for protection, prevention, and restoration.

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Scams Identity Theft Retail Antivirus 100

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Anyone clicking on the ad and who’s not the intended victim will see a standard blog with a number of articles. online website is no longer used to show a blog with articles but instead does a redirect (302 HTTP code) to another domain at workspace-app[.]online. This time, the corporatecomf[.]online

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Software System Administration Antivirus Malware 132

Quick Heal Antivirus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The below article highlights. Microsoft has recently come up with a new update called Windows 11 22H2. The post Quick Heal Supports Windows 11 version 22H2 appeared first on Quick Heal Blog | Latest computer security news, tips, and advice.

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Antivirus 120

CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As these tools are not malicious, they’re not likely to be flagged by traditional antivirus products,” the researchers wrote. To read this article in full, please click here

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Phishing Malware Social Engineering Retail 76