Cyber crime is being propagated by the fact that cybercriminals are leveraging new technologies, as well as reinventing social engineering forms, so as to coerce and entrap consumers. Due to this very fact, the last six months has seen an increase in Web threats, and a steady decrease in Adware and Spyware, as a combating [...]
03.4.10 | Computer News | Computerexpert
AVG Technologies, developers of the world’s leading free anti-virus software, is launching AVG LinkScanner as a free standalone product to protect users against random, invisible online threats. If a user simply visits one of these corrupted web pages they don’t even need to click on anything to get into real trouble, to lose their credit [...]
06.30.09 | Computer Safety Tip | Computerexpert
Cisco released its annual Security Report the other day, tracking the notable trends and threats across the world wide web. Here are the highlights: The Annual Cisco Security Report: Notable Trends * The overall number of disclosed vulnerabilites grew by 11.5% over 2007. * Vulnerabilities in virtualization technology nearly tripled from 35 to 103 year [...]
01.28.09 | Computer News | Computerexpert
