Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the past 6 months US retailers and American consumers have been rocked by a string of high profile Point of Sale System card data breaches, starting with the massive breach at Target last December. Now, the retail arts & crafts supplier Michaels Stores and their customers join the list of victims of criminal hackers….

Reading Time: 2 minutes Phishing is associated with fraudulent activities and stealing personal information on web. The sensitive information including passwords, ID and details of credit cards are acquired by the process of phishing. This kind of ID theft takes place through electronic communication. Thus you should be very careful while using net and accessing emails in your inbox….

Reading Time: 3 minutes Any list of memorable computer viruses would have to include the SQL Slammer virus, unleashed in 2003. I certainly remember it. I was with UPS IT at the time and we had multiple servers go down from it. The virus name is a bit misleading because it did not involve SQL, the Structured Query Language…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Unlike their desktop/laptop rival Microsoft, Apple does not go out of its way to alert their user base that they are withdrawing support for a version of their Operating System. It just happens. The last security update for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was released last September, but there was no announcement that support…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Definition of Win32 Vobfus xc Virus: Win32 Vobfus xc is a risky Trojan Virus which PC users should have removed from the target computer completely. The newly released Trojan horse is designed by cyber hackers to violate users’ privacy and compromise your security. It is a horrible threat to worldwide computers. To more specific, the…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Online shopping, online banking and general storage of personal information on personal computers have made consumers more vulnerable to identity theft than ever before. You now have to worry about hackers, spyware, and Trojan horse programs. With the right software, hackers can crack your login information including usernames and passwords. With this information, they can…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The US military may be trained to dodge bullets and bombs, but now they are being targeted with bits and bytes in the ever expanding cyberwar. Microsoft has confirmed that flaws in their Internet Security 10 browser have been exploited to spread malware on web sites frequented by US Military personnel and veterans. The attacks…

Reading Time: 3 minutes The notorious ZeuS Banking Trojan seems to be immortal, like its Greek God namesake. In December it was reported that a new 64bit version of this banking focused credential stealer might soon be seen in the wild. This month, there are two reports of ZeuS variants on the loose, each with unique features for deceiving…

Reading Time: 1 minute Could a breach at a HVAC company specializing in supermarket refrigeration have led to the Target Data breach? Apparently so, according to mega retailer Target and Pennsylvania based Fazio Mechanical Services. This raises a “chilling” possibility that hackers are even more sophisticated in their planning than most believed and can identify and exploit relatively obscure…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Still perfect! Once again,  Comodo Internet Security Premium (CIS) software earned another 100% protection score in the most recent evaluation period of AV-Test.org. Comodo earned a perfect score with 100% protection against zero-day malware attacks during November and December and a near-perfect score for the detection of prevalent malware with 99% and 100% protection ratings…