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Many people think that websites of Financial Institutions and banks are the top phished sites. It is logical also. These are the sites, where the user data is most sensitive. Just a few clicks and lots of money can change hands, if the login credentials of a user are phished to a rogue person. However, the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) has stated that the top ...

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Are you a webmaster, whose site has been flagged as malware distributing website by some forum or search engine. Or you want to check a website for malware infections before visiting it. It is a nightmare for a webmaster to come to know that his website has been flagged as dangerous ...

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Has it ever happened to you that you have received a phone bill running into thousands of bucks, without ever remembering to use your phone to such a large extent. While you investigate other things, keep in mind that one of the culprit may be the Dialer Malware hidden in your computers. What is a Dialer Malware...

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Zeus is a financial malware. It infects consumer PCs, waits for them to log onto a list of targeted banks and financial institutions, and then steals their credentials and sends them to a remote server in real time. Additionally, it may inject HTML into the pages rendered by the browser, so that ...

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In its recently published report on the status of worldwide phishing activities, the distinguished security vendor Symantec has reported that there are five main phishing techniques used by different groups. Automated ToolKits: There are automated toolkits available in the underground economy, which allow even a novice phishing scammer to start his own phishing ...

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The Need of Cloud Security Based Antivirus Despite a lot of advancement and progress, today's best Security software and antivirus suites are not capable of detecting and removing malware beyond a certain limit. Howsoever smart and intelligent your security software is, you cannot be absolutely sure about your PC Security and Privacy. It is because of the very mechanism with which these products function. The efficiency and ...

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Are you searching for a VPN Software for establishing a secured connection to access a remote computer to transfer your valuable data or files? There are lots of VPN Software and clients available, some are paid and others are free, which can easily provide you the benefits of secured connectivity and anonymous browsing. Not only they provide you security, but they also ensure privacy. This ...

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Email Spam - The Growing Threat Spam, the dark side of email convenience. Wikipedia says... E-mail spam, known as unsolicited bulk Email (UBE), junk mail, or unsolicited commercial email (UCE), is the practice of sending unwanted e-mail messages, frequently with commercial content, in large quantities to an indiscriminate set of recipients. By some conservative estimates, spam comprise ...

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Security Products from top Security Software vendors like Symantec and CA failed to clear the critical PC Security tests VB100, performed by the independent security analyst Virus Bulletin. This test is performed every month from the product submitted by different vendors for benchmarking their products against industry requirements. This month VB's test team put 35 products through ...

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