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‘Dirty USSD’ hack thought to target Samsung Galaxy smartphones spreads to all Android devices Earlier this week a security researcher

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How to remove the FBI Moneypak virus from an infected machine

Last month we had highlighted the growing threat of a fake FBI notice in the United States which turned out

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Will Windows 8 “ELAM” be the David for “Malware” Goliath?

AntiMalware vendors have the uphill task of tackling thousands of malware on a daily basis. One of the top challenges

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Microsoft releases ‘Fix it’ tool for IE vulnerability Microsoft has released a temporary “Fix it” tool for the highly publicized

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Microsoft disrupts major botnet by blocking malicious domain

Microsoft recently won a court order to host “3322.org”, a nefarious Internet domain based in China, with its own dynamic

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AntiSec collects 12 million Apple UDIDs from hacked FBI laptop, FBI denies it! AntiSec, a hacker group associated with Anonymous,

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Forward spam and unwanted SMS texts to +91-86000-44733

Quick Heal Mobile Security has been protecting Android and BlackBerry users effectively. However, one of the most persistent threats to

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The “What, How and Why?” of Machine learning in Quick Heal 2013

An enhanced scan engine is one of the primary features of Quick Heal 2013. The engine is now smaller in

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Security news updates from the last week

Fake BlackBerry account activation email A fake BlackBerry account creation email is doing the rounds. The content of the email

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Oracle releases Java 0-day vulnerability security patch

Yesterday we highlighted the Java 7 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2012-4681) that necessitated immediate attention by disabling the Java plug-in. Oracle has

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