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BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions, presented the results of a study about social gaming’s impact on the exposure of users’ private data. In order to reach high scores, social entertainment applications require users to gather a considerable number of friends and supporters to play the same game, leading to player-development of
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Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update for Internet Explorer. More information in Norman’s software advisory about this vulnerability.

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that it was awarded 2009 ICT Best Choice by the Institute for Information Industry (III) – No 1 in the corporate user antivirus category in information security sector in Taiwan. As part of III’s 13th annual “ICT Best Choice IT Gems Poll”, corporate users
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Introduction Domain names are a crucial part of the Internet’s infrastructure. However, as we have shown in previous security articles, registration of special domain names may be used as an attack vector for spreading malware. See for example our article Domain name registration – a malware spreading vector from 2009. The domain name system (in
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 has earned a top award from AV-Comparatives following analysis by the highly respected Austrian test lab. In February 2010, AV-Comparatives undertook comparative testing designed to evaluate the quality of on-demand malware detection of twenty of the most popular antivirus solutions.
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the publication of an informative article by Maria Namestnikova that explores the relationship between spam and the global economy. The article looks at how spam has developed into a fully-fledged industry that expands and contracts in synch with the global economy. This view is
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Introduction In our regular security articles, we have several times pointed out that security vulnerabilities and exploits are not restricted to “traditional” computers. We have predicted that several of the devices that our daily lives are filled with, may be exploited in the (near) future. See for example our articles Hot stuff: Exploitable routers – a flash
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces its participation in FIC, the International Forum on Cybercriminality. This international event is being organised by the French National Gerdarmerie and will be held in the ‘Grand Palais’ in Lille between the 31 March and 01 April 2010. “Together for a safer digital space!”
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About BitDefender® BitDefender is the creator of one of the industry’s fastest and most effective lines of internationally certified security software. Since its inception in 2001, BitDefender has continued to raise the bar and set new standards in proactive threat prevention. Every day, BitDefender protects tens of millions of home and corporate users across the
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BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions, today announced that BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2 has achieved its sixth VBSpam Award in a row, in the latest Virus Bulletin Anti-Spam Comparative Review. Designed for Linux servers, Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2 achieved Gold for its low false positive rate coupled with its
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