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Recent antivirus tests are bad news for paid security suites – PCWorld

Recent antivirus tests are bad news for paid security suites  PCWorld

If you want a basic antivirus *service* to protect your PC, the December tests performed by AV-Test.org indicate that Windows’ own Windows Defender can do the …

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Being paid to quit Facebook

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Research claims Facebook users are prepared to give up the social network for a year… if paid over $ 1000.

Graham Cluley

Smashing Security #110: What? You can get paid to leave Facebook?

Smashing Security #110: What? You can get paid to leave Facebook?

Twitter and the not-so-ethical hacking of celebrity accounts, study discovers how you can pay someone to quit Facebook for a year, and the millions of dollars you can make from uncovering software vulnerabilities.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Maria Varmazis.

Graham Cluley

Pennsylvania Senate Democrats paid $700000 to recover from ransomware attack

  1. Pennsylvania Senate Democrats paid $ 700000 to recover from ransomware attack  ZDNet
  2. Virobot Ransomware Logs Keystrokes and Adds PC to Spam Botnet  Cyber Security News (blog)
  3. Virobot: How to say your PC is toast, in French?  Tech Xplore
  4. Full coverage

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