Bitdefender 2013 is now available through the Windows Store for Windows 8 operated devices and computers. “It’s exciting to bring the latest generation in antivirus to the latest generation of Windows,” said Bitdefender Chief Security Strategist, Catalin Cosoi. “Windows 8 comes with a series of real enhancements that, together with Bitdefender security products, can bring [...]
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Bitdefender has brought to light a malicious email campaign that using celebrity names such as Madonna and Rihanna as bait has spread to Australia. Emails with subjects with ‘FWD: Best of Madonna’ and ‘Justin Bieber fan’s suicide’ contain links to malicious Russian domains or fake Canadian pharmacy sites. “Clicking on an email that contains names [...]
View Post bitdefender, botnet, malicious links, malware, securityTesting by analysis firm AV-Comparatives has found that Bitdefender Mobile Security (BMS) is in the top of protecting Android smart phones from malware infections and minimising impact on the phone’s batteries. “When we started designing Bitdefender Mobile Security, we set out to craft the perfect smartphone security suite – one that catches pretty much all [...]
View Post android, AV-Comparatives, bitdefender, bitdefender mobile security, malware, mobile security, smartphone, smartphonesBitdefender has announced its iPhone security app, Clueful, has returned as a free web-app for iPhone, iPad and PCs, with a bevy of new features. The app was originally approved by Apple but was pulled from the App Store in July, just two months after its release. It is unclear why the app was removed [...]
View Post app store, apple, bitdefender, clueful, ios security, iPad, iPhone, PC, security appAntivirus vendor Bitdefender launched the public beta testing Parental Control Standalone, an online parental control system that lets parents can keep tabs on their childrens online activity. There are several customisable modules that allow parents to monitor children, such as the GPS tracking module that parents can use to see where there kids are by [...]
View Post bitdefender, parental controlAfter anti-virus vendor Kaspersky Lab’s announced discovery of Flame “one of the most advanced and complete attack-toolkits ever discovered” on Monday, vendors have rapidly released specialised tools to find and remove the previously undetected malware. Kasperksy have categorised the malware as a super-cyberweapon due to its similarities – geography, use of software vulnerabilities and infection [...]
View Post bitdefender, cybersecurity, flame, flamer, gostev, Kasperksy, malware cyber espionageIt’s easy to click through the permissions screen when installing apps on smartphones, which means a lot of users don’t notice what apps are given free rein to do and which personal information can be accessed. Even when users knowingly give apps permission to access some information, many of those apps exploit those permissions and [...]
View Post amlware, bitdefender, clueful, cybersecurity, ios, iPhone, mobile securityAntivirus vendor Bitdefender has launched Safebox, a cloud-based storage solution for PC and Android. An iPhone and iPad app is coming soon. There are three account tiers. The first is the free version which includes 2 GB of cloud-based storage capacity. The middle tier is $49.95 per year for 30GB and the premium tier is [...]
View Post bitdefender, bitdefender safebox, cloud based storage, encryptionBitDefender launched the beta of its free Safego security application for Twitter. The free tool uses BitDefender’s anti-malware and anti-phishing engines, to detect various threats such as spam and dangerous links. Once you allow Safego to connect to your account, it automatically scans accounts you are following and flags them appropriately into four different categories. [...]
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Bitdefender has added tracking and remote wiping feature and SD Card scanning to its free Mobile Security for Android BETA. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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