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Spam SMS messages on the rise: Quick Heal mobile threat detection numbers

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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In September 2012, Quick Heal launched an initiative for mobile users to forward suspicious SMS messages to a predesignated number. We received an impressive response as a lot of mobile users actively forwarded their spam messages and contributed towards this cause. The number to forward any suspicious SMS messages to is +91-86000-44733. Millions of SMS […]

Season’s greetings: Beware of security threats and fake phishing pages

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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The festive season brings with it heart warming wishes and some great online deals for shoppers and discount seekers. Online retailers present some great discounts and add-ons at this time of the year and online sales see a massive surge in activity as a result. Unsurprisingly, attackers and phishers use this jubilant opportunity to trick […]

Germans demand anonymous accounts over Facebook: Wise move or not?

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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German legislators have stoked the fires of Facebook privacy by ordering the social network to allow anonymous accounts and pseudonyms in place of real names of people. This demand originated from Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany. A data protection agency called Unabhaengiges Landeszentrum fuer Datenschutz (ULD) has emphasized the German decree that guarantees the […]

Future Watch VII: Your Smart TV opens up a new frontier for hacks and spying

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Just like smartphones arrived in most markets and obliterated regular feature phones, smart TV’s are expected to change the way we interact with our television sets. A smart TV, or hybrid TV, comes integrated with several web 2.0 applications and widgets that allow users to access the Internet and obtain content from several sources. However […]

Simple security tips to avoid Twitter phishing scams

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Twitter is a great platform for sharing news, opinions and links. Created in 2006, Twitter has more than 500 million active users today and generates more than 350 million tweets every single day. This has naturally led to several phishing attacks over the microblogging platform. The fact that links are instantly published on a large […]

Latest security news and updates

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Malware exploits Windows AutoRun Strains of malware that spread via the AutoRun feature that automatically launches programs when a USB drive or a disk is inserted into a machine is on the rise today. These kinds of malware exploit a certain bug in the AutoRun software so it is recommended that everyone disables this feature. […]

How smartphone attacks make money at the expense of the victim?

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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The massive surge in smartphone usage all over the world has allowed scammers to devise several ways to monetize vulnerable devices. For the victim these attack vectors represent a loss of data, time and money. But for the attacker these methods are primarily used to gain monetary benefits. So how exactly do these attackers make […]

Viral Facebook copyright message is nothing but a scam

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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If you recently came across a viral Facebook privacy notice that mentioned copyrights of your content, photos and videos, you should be forewarned that this notice is yet another Facebook scam. Facebook recently updated their privacy guidelines and also allowed users to comment on these changes for the first time. Unfortunately, this has led to […]

Have you used these easy and effective Quick Heal Parental Control tools?

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Parents of school going kids have several questions when it comes to cyber security. Some of these issues involve the freedom and time that should be given to kids when they access the Internet. Other questions revolve around the mode of access in the first place. Today it is very common to see pre-teens with […]

5 effortless steps to block Facebook spam from reaching your news feed

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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We recently posted an article about Facebook ‘Like’ scams and the truth behind them. This post talked about how some parties created fake pages to invoke sympathy and got hundreds of thousands of likes and comments as a result. This in turn enhanced the Edge Rank of a page and spread as spam to even […]