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Strange Saga Continues: John McAfee's Island Home Burns to the Ground

Posted 05/20/2013 at 8:52am | by Paul Lilly

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Antivirus founder's wild ride isn't over.

John McAfee, the British-American programmer who used to work for NASA before founding McAfee Associates (now owned by Intel), a computer antivirus company, no longer has a home in Belize. Apparently his island abode burned down last Thursday amid circumstances he deemed "suspicious," according to a FoxNews.com report.

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LulzSec Hackers Receive Prison Sentences for Cyber Hijinks

Posted 05/17/2013 at 7:31am | by Paul Lilly

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They did the crimes, now they'll do the time.

It's not always true that crime doesn't pay, because if that's the way it was, there would be a lot less people breaking the law. The problem for criminals is that payback's a bitch if you get caught, as did several LulzSec (Lulz Security) members who fessed up to hacking various companies and organizations, such as Sony, 20th Century Fox, Nintendo, and even the CIA, to name just a few of their targets.

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How to Download Without Installing Malware

Posted 05/15/2013 at 3:57pm | by Paul Lilly

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A how to download PSA

When the flip did it become so damn difficult to download a program from the Internet? If you've recently tried to grab a screensaver or software utility from the web, you know exactly what we're talking about. Somewhere along the way, the simple act of downloading a program has become anything but easy, even for Internet veterans who aren't easily duped. Many download sites are now designed to test the wits of savvy users and prey on the impatient with link landmines that will blow up your browser with toolbars and other unwanted add-ons. Even worse, you could end up with a malware infection. Should you give up?

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Symantec: Targeted Attacks on Small Businesses Increased Three-Fold in 2012

Posted 05/13/2013 at 8:35am | by Paul Lilly

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Small business owners are viewed as easy targets among cybercriminals.

Symantec on Monday published its 2013 Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 18, which provides an overview and analysis of the past year in global threat activity. One of the things Symantec noticed was that cybercriminals are paying more attention to small businesses with fewer than 250 employees. Targeted attacks against these organizations jumped 31 percent in 2012 compared to the year before.

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Virus Protection Guide

Posted 04/22/2013 at 2:07pm | by Paul Lilly

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Best free antivirus programs and virus propection tips

So you got caught with your pants down on the Internet (figuratively, folks) and contracted a virus. That sucks. Or maybe you were wearing protection but still fell victim to some nasty bit of code that managed to slip by your antivirus software undetected. That sucks even more. Either way, it's nothing to feel ashamed about. The web is a dangerous place and even the most tech savvy users sometimes slip up. You can even get a virus through no fault of your own simply by visiting a reputable website that, unbeknownst to you, has been compromised by a hacker with malicious intent. The web is a war zone, and even if you're not a target, you can still end up a casualty.

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LulzSec Hacker Receives One-Year Sentence for Sony Shenanigans

Posted 04/19/2013 at 8:12am | by Paul Lilly

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Sony breach cost the company over $600,000.

A U.S. judge ordered Cody Kretsinger, otherwise known as "Recursion" by his LulzSec cohorts, to serve a year and one day in prison after the hacker pleaded guilty to computer crimes related to an organized breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment last year. As part of Kretsinger's plea bargain, the 25-year-old is also required to perform 1,000 hours of community service, pay Sony $605,663 in restitution, and serve a period of home detention following his time behind bars.

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Mobile Malware Grew 163 Percent in 2012, Almost All of It Aimed at Android

Posted 04/15/2013 at 8:24am | by Paul Lilly

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Security reports suggests mobile malware writers are almost exclusively focusing on Android.

To the victor belong the spoils, along with everything else that comes with being the most popular kid on the block. In the mobile world, Android is clearly winning in terms of market share, and while that translates into a bigger chunk of the pie, it also means there's a big brightly lit target painted on Android's back for malware writers to take aim at. Whether or not mobile malware is truly a problem to begin with, however, is debatable.

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Several LulzSec Hackers Plead Guilty to Sony Breach

Posted 04/09/2013 at 9:37am | by Paul Lilly

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Young activists fess up to series of hacker attacks.

Ryan Ackroyd, a 26-year-old from South Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to a single count of a computer-related hacking charge, according to a report in U.K.'s The Guardian newspaper. Ackroyd admitted in court to being involved with hactivist organization Lulz Security, otherwise known as LulzSec, and to plotting a series of attacks on websites such as 20th Century Fox, Sony, Nintendo, News International, Arizona state police in the U.S., and other targets.

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F-Secure Rebuilds Online Scanner From the Ground Up

Posted 04/05/2013 at 9:25am | by Paul Lilly

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A free online scanner just got faster and lighter.

Security outfit F-Secure says it completely rebuilt its Online Scanner tool to run faster, lighter, and more capable than before. One of the biggest additions to the revamped scanner is that it now hunts for rootkits, those nasty bits of code that burrow deep down and sometimes boot before the operating sytem, making them extremely difficult to detect and remove. F-Secure also focused on downsizing the tool's footprint, which now checks in at 5MB.

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F-Secure: 8 out of 10 Mobile Malware Targets Android

Posted 03/08/2013 at 9:00am | by Paul Lilly

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Mobile malware on the Android platform is on the rise.

Remember Symbian? Few people actually care about the mobile platform these days, and that's evidenced by the reduction of mobile malware aimed at Symbian, which dropped from 29 percent in 2011 to 19 percent in 2012, according F-Secure's latest Mobile Threat Report (PDF). Android, on the other hand, is more popular than it's ever been, and as a result, 79 percent of all mobile malware is targeted at Google's open source OS.

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