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What is a Botnet?
Botnets first came into the consciousness of most of the general public in early 2000 when a Canadian teenager launched a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks against s...
Tag Archives: malware
What is a Man-in-the-Middle Attack?
The goal of most attackers, regardless of how they go about their business, is to steal user data. That could be in small, discrete attacks on individual users or it could be in l...
Five Popular Spam Scams
Everyone should know by now that there are, sadly, no members of deposed African royal families who want to share millions of dollars with you, no strings attached. What everyone ...
What is a Rootkit?
Rootkits have been around for nearly 20 years now, allowing attackers to get access to and steal data from users’ machines without being detected for long periods of time. The ter...
Inside The Belly of a Cybercrime Investigation
Whenever you read a news headline about the arrest or conviction of a cybercriminal, you can guarantee that the bulk of the investigative work was done by the work of anti-malware...
Protecting Your Mac From Malware
Due to a lack of malicious activity targeting Mac OS X it has been considered a relatively safe operating system for some time now. But times change, and that complacency can no l...
Make Love Not Cyberwar
Does Kaspersky write malware or create cyberweapons? Let’s find out! Our undercover reporter tries to trick the Kaspersky team into saying they support cyberwar; but they ha...
How to Avoid “Honey Traps” When Seeking Love Online
The official Day of Love has arrived, so many of us will receive traditional anonymous Valentines – most of them in electronic form nowadays. Usually it doesn’t tak...
The Importance of Destroying Malware
No one likes malware. In fact, pretty much everyone hates it. But it’s not the worst problem facing the world right now either. The problems in the online world pale in comparison...
Browser Security: Google Chrome
The first thing you want to be aware of when discussing security features on Google’s Chrome browser is that many of the best options aren’t built into the browser, but rather are...
