INSIGHT: Top 4 ways to combat drive-by downloads
Drive-by downloads, where users unintentionally download viruses or malware, are becoming hackers’ preferred way of accessing personal data.
Drive-by downloads, where users unintentionally download viruses or malware, are becoming hackers’ preferred way of accessing personal data.
“Public Wi-Fi is inherently insecure."
Some of the world's leading cryptographers are concerned about the increasing number of malicious programs that hold computers and mobile phones to ransom, in many cases by abusing the encryption algorithms they designed.
The group of attackers behind cyberintrusions at the White House and the Department of State last year used malware that bears strong similarities to cyberespionage tools suspected to be of Russian origin.
Security vendor Malwarebytes has flagged the Dell System Detect tool as a potentially unwanted application after older versions of the program were found to put computers at risk.
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