While the growth of cyber threats and malware artists is rampant, most of us still feel that antivirus for our computer is unnecessary and may cause more trouble than it’s worth. Here are some myths that stop people from using an antivirus, where we also tell you why should you have one. MYTHS Fact: In […]
The Internet is a fun place to be, but it is also riddled with hackers, online scammers, and malware artists. These notorious entities are out there, waiting for you to falter so that they can latch onto you like parasites to feed on your money and identity. Scary huh? But hey, we are here to […]
The AV-Test institute is an independent organization that evaluates and rates antivirus software solutions, benchmarking them against various criteria. These evaluations are run for Windows and Android operating systems. During January and February 2017, AV-Test evaluated Quick Heal Total Security for Windows. Here are the results: Category A: PROTECTION Protection against malware threats. Definitions 0-day […]
Update: The incident has been taken care of by Cosmos Bank and its website (URL) is now clean and safe to use. Compromising popular websites has become a common strategy for attackers to spread infection in a widespread fashion. Attackers exploit unpatched vulnerabilities present on web servers in order to compromise websites. In addition to this, […]
As fun and constructive as the Internet can be in the life of children and young people, it carries its drawbacks too. With incidences of cybercrime increasing at an alarming rate, children and teens who are connected to the Internet are seen as soft targets by online scammers, predators, hackers, and other such undesired elements. […]
Users of WhatsApp Web (the browser-based version of the app) were recently targeted with an image-based security threat where simply clicking an image could have hacked their accounts. A security vulnerability was present in WhatsApp Web and it was recently patched by WhatsApp. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker could send a malicious code (virus […]
The well-known open source web application framework Apache Struts 2 is being actively exploited in the wild allowing hackers to launch a remote code execution attack. To address this issue, Apache has issued a security advisory and CVE-2017-5638 has been assigned to it. The zero-day bug has been rated with the highest severity rating ‘High’. […]
Amazing women are everywhere. They have defined our past and are making our present better so that we can look forward to a better future. Women have always been more vocal, expressive and willing to share than men. And social networking has become one the most powerful platforms for them to express themselves and dominate […]
The Government of India recently launched an ambitious project called Cyber Swachhta Kendra (CSK) – a Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Center. Developed under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), this center will be operated by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). Developed as an essential part of the Digital India initiative […]
The AV-Test institute is an independent organization that evaluates and rates antivirus software solutions, benchmarking them against various criteria. These evaluations are run for Windows and Android operating systems. In the latest evaluation for mobile security solutions run by the institute (Jan/2017), Quick Heal Total Security App has scored 100% in malware detection – against […]