Posts Tagged ‘keylogging’
The Dirty Dozen – One Security Expert’s Top 12 Security Concerns for 2012
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 2, 2012
A tradition at the beginning of the year is to look ahead and plan. You look at the year behind you, consider the lessons learned, and then you make bold predictions for yourself. In the security world, we hold true to these traditions, predicting what’s in store for us next year from hackers, scammers, and [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: CNET Offers Good Advice on Protecting Your PC
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● November 18, 2011
I’ve always been a fan of the smart folks at CNET, especially for their straight talk on security issues. And while I’ve written many times about all the easy things you can do to protect your computer and everything on it, I thought it might help if you heard it from someone else too. So [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Fake Anti-Virus on the Rise Again
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● February 8, 2011
The only thing worse than having no virus protection on your computer, is having fake anti-virus software, or scareware instead. The problem is now so bad that Twitter announced this week it had to reset numerous user passwords after it was discovered that compromised accounts were being used by crooks to promote scareware through infected [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Happy Birthday, Computer Virus!
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 27, 2011
Can you believe that it’s been exactly 25 years to the month that the world woke up to the first computer virus? My, how time flies. Happy times, at least for many of the authors of this malware. And of course for the now multi-billion dollar anti-virus industry this one event spawned. Even the birth [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: 10 Million NEW Cyber Threats So Far This Year
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 18, 2010
I guess you could be forgiven for giving up the fight against cybercrime when the world seems to be overwhelmed with malware like Trojans and viruses that are able to anticipate our responses and always appear a few steps ahead of us. Security firm McAfee recently confirmed what many of us already knew. Things are [...]
How Do You Know Your Antivirus Software is Working?
Posted by: Matt Hines in: ● June 28, 2010
How well is your antivirus software (AV) working today? Hopefully better than mine. Of course, I didn’t pay anything for mine, maybe that’s the problem; maybe not. Either way as I first sat down to write this blog on my work-issued (and far more heavily protected) laptop, my home PC – a nice fresh six-month [...]
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