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VirusTotal += Tencent URL scanner

Just recently my colleague Julio announced the introduction of Tencent as a new antivirus solution in VirusTotal’s file scanner. Today we are excited to announce that Tencent has broadened its collaboration and is also sharing its malicious URL dataset in order to enhance our URL scanner. This is a great addition as it will surely […] more…

VirusTotal += Tencent

We welcome Tencent as a new file scanning engine at VirusTotal. In the words of the company: “Tencent anti-virus engine is an independent R&D anti-virus engine, which contains three technology-leading methods to detect malware. 1. TAV uses clustering to extract the micro-signature efficiently and make sure the detection of malware efficiency. TAV also has the […] more…

McAfee’s Most Dangerous Celebrities Pin It To Win It Contest: Win A Dell Ultrabook

Searching for celebrities online isn’t all glitz and glam, according to our 7th annual Most Dangerous Celebrities™ study, released earlier this week. McAfee researched which Tinseltown residents spell digital disaster when searched online. This year’s results may surprise you! Cyber criminals like to take advantage of the buzz surrounding movies, award shows, and—you guessed it—celebrities, […] more…

Is Dropbox Dropping in on Your Shared Files?

The ability to instantly share and interact through online sources has become an expected part of our daily lives. We live in a time where any service that helps make this happen is quickly welcomed. And because of this mentality, cloud services such as Dropbox, where people can access shared information and files in real-time […] more…

Why You Need to Teach Your Kids to be Careful What They Search For Online

With information and video access at their fingertips most teens spend a crazy amount of time online looking for the latest gossip, hairstyles, and fashion trends surrounding celebrities. (Yes, it’s true: Internet searches for a certain “twerking” female singer outranked web searches for Syria last week six to one). That obsession with popular culture combined […] more…

Kylie Minogue: Australia’s Most Dangerous Celebrity

Noooooooo!! How could Kylie Minogue be considered dangerous? Perhaps I missed that episode of Neighbours? And I am sure there are no ‘danger’ themes in her music. Well, definitely not in Locomotion or I Should Be So Lucky!! But yes, it is true. Aussie pop legend Kylie Minogue is Australia’s 2013 Most Dangerous Celebrity, according […] more…

The Search for Celebrity Gossip Could Land Your Phone in Hot Water

They may be glamorous, but celebrities can make things quite ugly when it comes to the safety of your mobile device. Most have no idea that their “big name” has caused so much chaos to so many smartphones and tablets. Unfortunately, what usually starts as a simple search for the most recent celebrity affair or […] more…

SnapChat-Like Apps Hide Content on Twitter, Facebook

Just when parents figured out SnapChat, an app that makes photo texts disappear, two new apps hit the social scene that achieve the same objective on both Twitter and Facebook. Twitterspirit allows a Twitter user to set a time limit for a tweet before it “self-destructs” in their feed. By using a hashtag (#) denoting any […] more…

Mirror Mirror Online, Who Is the Most Dangerous of Them All?

We all do it. We probably all just don’t admit it. Well I admit it—I’ve searched for that elusive picture of Kimye’s baby North (who I thought would be called Kadence, but I’m not in the know, which is why I’m on the search engines constantly). But what most of us don’t realize is that searching […] more…

Mirror Mirror Online, Who Is the Most Dangerous Celebrity of Them All?

The App Your Kids are Using Now: Vine

Parents, do you recall seeing the icon below on your child’s iPhone the last time you perused their apps? If so, then your child has an account on a popular mobile application called ‘Vine’. Vine, which is owned by Twitter, enables users to create and post video clips with a maximum length of seven and […] more…

It’s Even Easier Now For Regular Folks To Conduct Cybercrime

Here’s a late night infomercial for you: How’s that burger flipping going? That cubicle working out? Anyway, I’m sure your boss is such a nice guy. Guess what! If you’re interested in a career in criminal hacking, you don’t even need a computer! This (scary) special, one-time offer comes to you right now from the […] more…

Obad to the Bone: Sophisticated Malware

“Sophistication” is generally viewed by most as a good thing… Dom Perignon, Kate Middleton, fresh-pressed slacks—you get the picture. Unfortunately, when it comes to sophisticated malware, you’ll find things are far from classy. And recently, researchers have discovered what they’re calling “the most sophisticated mobile Trojan to date.” They call it “Obad,” and its keepers […] more…

New Apps Make It Easy to Save SnapChats

The SnapChat smart phone app is one of the newest crazes for teens because it allows a user to send what they believe to be a very private and very temporary photo to another user (and if you use it just for fun with friends, it can be a blast). Because SnapChat (seen below, yellow icon) […] more…

What is Encryption?

Encryption is the science of encoding and decoding secret messages. It began as cryptography—the ancient Greeks used it to protect sensitive information that might fall into the hands of their enemies. More recently, governments have used encryption for military purposes, but these days the term if often used in reference to online security. Encryption is […] more…

Nearly Half of Android Users Vulnerable to Security Breaches

Being the most widely used mobile operating system on the planet, Android can be found on a large variety of devices and services, and offers hundreds of thousands of available customized apps to enhance the functionality of your device. Unfortunately, Android also accounts for a whopping 79% of mobile malware cases reported by the US […] more…

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