Malware is ubiquitous these days, earlier it only affected PCs, but today with the proliferation of smartphones and tablets malware authors are targeting smartphones, tablets, windows PCs and what not. We daily come across some malware or adware affecting users, so it has become a habit for Windows ... Read More →
Tumblr adds two-factor authentication to improve security
Tumblr has added two-factor authentication to its service to improve the security. The two-factor authentication is optional for now, but it is advised to turn it on. By adding 2-factor authentication Tumblr joins a growing list of web services that have added this extra layer of security in the ... Read More →
6.5 million LinkedIn passwords leaked online, change your password now
Reportedly 6.5 million LinkedIn accounts have been compromised and their passwords posted to a Russian forum. One user uploaded nearly 6.5 million passwords to a forum claiming it as LinkedIn member passwords, no usernames were posted though, but it could be that both user names and passwords are ... Read More →
30,000 Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and other email accounts hit by phishing attack
Over 30,000 email accounts including Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and other web mail services have been compromised by phishing attacks recently. Yesterday Neowin reported that around 10,000 Hotmail accounts were compromised due to phishing attacks, the details of these account usernames and passwords are ... Read More →
Microsoft Security Essentials: Download Free AntiVirus Software
Microsoft Security Essentials is a free antivirus program for Windows and is the successor of Windows Live OneCare. Microsoft released the beta of the program in June this year, and the final version is released today, it is rather quick. Download Security Essentials from Microsoft. ... Read More →
Critical JavaScript Vulnerability found in Firefox 3.5
Firefox 3.5 release came with a new JavaScript engine Tracemonkey for faster rendering of the JavaScript pages. But the release also has a critical vulnerability that lies in Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. Mozilla is working on a fix to patch the vulnerability. ... Read More →
Microsoft Security Essentials is available, download now
Microsoft Security Essentials, a free security software from Microsoft is available for download from today. This is a beta release of the software and the download is capped at 75,000, Microsoft may increase the download limit based on the demand, but if you want try the software download as soon ... Read More →
Microsoft Security Essentials: Free Anti-Virus Software from Microsoft
Microsoft used to offer a Anti-Virus suite called OneCare that got discontinued due to lack of interest, and then Microsoft announced that it will offer a free solution code named "Morro" for security in November 2008. Looks like finally Morro has come to life. Neowin.net obtained screenshots of the ... Read More →
Internet Explorer Security Update Available
Microsoft officially released a security update for Internet Explorer which addresses the security flaw i wrote about yesterday. Usually Microsoft sends security patches once in a month via windows update, but this time due to the critical security but they are sending out-of-band update. Users ... Read More →
Internet Explorer users shift to other browsers
Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are advised to shift to other browsers due to a serious security flaw in IE according to Gaurdian. The security flaw was spotted last week when hackers started attacking IE 7 users. Other versions of IE, IE 5 and IE 6 are also vulnerable to the flaw. ... Read More →