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Hackers successfully crack Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer on Windows...

Chrome OS may have survived a barrage of attacks at Pwnium 3 but Windows and Windows browsers have not been so lucky. At Pwn2Own, a hacker competition sponsored by HP, hackers were able to exploit...

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EA’s online video game service Origin is exploitable by bug that lets...

Video game publisher Electronic Arts recently  put out one of the bigger releases of the year in SimCity. The game was plagued with launch woes and continuous server issues as it required an online...

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24% of PCs worldwide are vulnerable to viruses and cyber attacks, because...

  According to the most recent Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, an average of 24 percent of computers worldwide are vulnerable to viruses and cyber attacks. The reason? Simple — the lack of...

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[Windows] Easily block porn, phishing, and malware websites with DNS Angel

The internet is an extremely dangerous place, even for adults. At any given moment,  we can have our sensitive information stolen, run into a phishing scam, catch a virus and come across the occasional...

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13-year-old Alaskan middle school students hack classroom computers by using...

In Ketchikan, Alaska a group of 18 students (aged 12 to 13 years) attending Schoenbar Middle School were able to hack into various computers after exploiting teachers to gain admin access. After...

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Destructive malware targets government and media networks in South Korea

A new malicious data wiper program dubbed Trojan.Korhigh by Symantec containing similar functionality to another piece of malware, which took the networks of several South Korean companies offline in...

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Microsoft reveals two viruses that avoid removal by regularly downloading...

Recent research carried out by Microsoft has showed that a combination of two viruses, Vobfus and Beebone, is proving quite difficult to remove from infected Windows PCs. Like other typical malware,...

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Microsoft is attacked using a Windows security bug found by Google

A couple of months ago, a Google researcher named Tavis Ormandy uncovered a severe flaw in Windows and then took it to the web to inform the public. This raised the ire of some (especially Microsoft),...

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“Of course antivirus is installed… the disk is in the drive!” [Humor]

Pro tip: simply inserting your antivirus disc inside the CD tray will protect you from viruses.

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Kaspersky is very good at removing rootkits [Image]

Kaspersky TDSSKiller finds one rootkit but somehow neutralizes three.

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‘Janicab’ malware targets both Windows and Macs

A troubling malware family has recently been brought to light by researchers from both F-Secure and Webroot. What is particularly unique about this malware is that it targets both Windows and OSX....

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How computer viruses spread [Infographic]

This infographic provides some simple tips as to how/why viruses spread.

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This computer is infected with over 200,000 pieces of malware [Image]

Uh... how is it possible to be infected with so many malware?!

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Porn-addicted Pete and his malware-infected laptop [Humor]

Pete likes to watch a lot of porn. Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to watch porn safely.

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Tor users are advised to not use Windows

Tor is a tool that protects your identity while browsing the internet. While it is known as the ‘Darknet’ by some due to how it can be used to distribute pornographic and child abuse images, the main...

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Poetic malware [Image]

Tech support cleans out a computer when s/he comes across poetic malware... literally.

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How to protect yourself from being hacked [Infographic]

This infographic provides very good tips regarding how people are hacked and how to protect yourself. 418

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Either this is a virus or… [Image]

...Or the beginning of an invasion from Mars. 385

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You may lose all faith in humanity after reading this [Humor]

Lady clicks on email that claims her Chase bank account is locked. Too bad she doesn't have a Chase bank account. 221

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Orbit Downloader (download manager) contains malware, says anti-virus company

Do you use Orbit Downloader, a popular download manager for Windows? Then you should uninstall it right now because, according to ESET (the makers of NOD32 anti-virus), Orbit Downloader contains...

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