Year: 2012

2011 was a banner year for many, including cybercriminals. 2011 saw an Identity Fraud increase of 13% over 2010, bringing the victim count to 11.6 million for that year. Although the victim count climbed, the dollar amount remained steady. According the Javelin Strategy and Research, the dollar amount stolen remained steady, but the out-of-pocket expenses […]

Trojans have been around a while and for the most part, removal has been pretty straight forward. That is until now! A new dropper Trojan was recently detected by BitDefender Researchers. It uses a new technique in order to hide from AntiVirus software. Unlike other trojans that simply add themselves to the startup list, this […]

Symantec finally announced that the apparent source code leakage claimed to be perpetrated in the possible compromise of their networks by a 3rd party entity, was in fact due to a 2006 breach of their systems.