Posts Tagged ‘party applications’

Bitcoin Miner Bundled in Advertising-Based Software

Nov

2013

Bitcoin mining software has been detected to be part of third party applications inadvertently installed by users together with legitimate applications.Following a request for assistance from one of their users, Malwarebytes discovered recently that some third party programs, generically called PUPs or PUAs (potentially unwanted programs/applications), integrate bitcoin mining software that is deployed on the […]

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How To Make Your PC Start Up Quicker!

Jul

2013

It’s easy to think that in the year 2013, computers have come far enough that slow booting, unresponsive machines are a thing of the past. Sadly, this just isn’t the case. Although Windows 8 and the advent of SSD drives has made our PCs, ultrabooks and tablets boot-up extremely quickly, there are still forces at […]

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Battered Twitter, Phish but no Chips!

Feb

2013

Hot on the heels of Friday’s announcement by Twitter that they ‘detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data’ and subsequent confirmation that ‘attackers may have had access to limited user information’ for ‘approximately 250,000 users’, Websense® Security Labs™ are tracking a phishing campaign propagated via Twitter’s […]

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