Virus, Spyware, Malware Detection and Cleaning Sometimes we harbor virus on our computers (PC) without knowing that they really are there. If we do know how these viruses behave, and the main feature and effect on our systems, we will not that there are a whole lots of them on our system and we thereby give them space to operate to their fullest until a lot of unrecoverable damage has been done to... 

Charlie Miller has decided to take on the mighty Apple. He has found a way to hack the Apple Mac in a very interesting way. He is not a normal hacker who will make the running of your Mac different, but he wants to stop it altogether. A hacker can hack the battery module and stop the charging of your Mac. He can make it do anything he wants. So believe it or not; your MacBook’s Battery is vulnerable... 

Last week, Con Mallon, a regional director of online security experts Norton gave the latest warning that consumers must, “basically start to take security seriously on their smartphones and on tablets“. Mallon admitted that the threat was small in “absolute numbers”. No kidding. About 163 mobile vulnerabilities have uncovered in the past year. Compare that to 6,500 reported... 

It is no secret that Facebook is currently the hottest and happening destination in the online world. And unfortunately this also makes it the ‘hottest hacker’s magnet‘! There has been a recent case of a new Facebook worm spreading fast. The worm disguises itself as a message from a friend on the user’s Wall, stating “WTF I cant believe youre tagged in this vid”... 

For all Google Android users and fans here is something to be panicked! There has been a 400% rise in malware on Google’s Android platform since the middle of last year and the problem is so severe that several Android anti-virus programs have been released recently. There are over 200,000 applications on the Android App Store/Market today – up from 50,000 a year ago while the store was launched... 

Here is another worm which is making the rounds on Twitter via the goo.gl URL shortening service, often directing users to fake anti-virus software, online security firms Sophos and Kaspersky report. Attackers are believed to be using compromised Twitter accounts to post Tweets advertising various pages linked through the goo.gl service. This nasty worm on Twitter preys on users who click on a shortened... 

Its just Day 1 and within 9 hours of being launched, the Apple Mac App Store’s security has been already cracked. Reports have surfaced of software ‘pirates’ having figured out how to install and run unauthorized paid apps by copying the receipt files from a free app. According to John Gruber of Daring Fireball, the vulnerability exists only in apps that don’t follow Apple’s... 

Google Android operating system might be based on Linux-based kernel, but that doesn’t make it completely secured. Just when you thought that your Android based smartphone was safe from malwares, hackers have quietly sneaked in a new Trojan Horse malware – Geinimi - that spreads on Android phones via Games and other Apps. Kevin Mahaffey, CTO of Lookout Mobile Security that develops mobile... 

With all the hype that surrounds the Apple tablet — iPad, this was bound to happen. Success stories are cyber criminals’ best bet to get loads of targeted victims and the iPad craze couldn’t have been left out of this picture. It may have only been on the shelves in the US for a few weeks but the Apple iPad has already been hit with a virus. Apple iPad users are being warned of an email-borne... 

Security Holes Not Required to Attack via PDF files If the sheer amount of exploits in Adobe’s products over the last year haven’t scared you off yet, then maybe a PDF attack (that doesn’t require an exploit or JavaScript to run) will. Here’s a proof of concept video for your viewing pleasure: Jeremy Conway, product manager at NitroSecurity, created this proof of concept for an attack in which...