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Today, cybercriminals are quick to exploit vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, Flash and Java to infect users’ computers. There is a simple reason for this popularity: exploits of vulnerabilities found in these products can infect computers regardless of which operating systems and browsers are used on the attacked machines. We assumed that the threats posed to […]

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Conficker is one of the most significant threat families facing organizations worldwide today; its initial impact along with its continued obstinacy shows that clearly. In the fourth quarter of 2011 – three years after its initial release – it attempted to infect just over 1.7 million computers. Conficker’s persistence is illustrated not only by the […]

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You must have heard already about the already “famous” malware DNSChanger which manipulates the DNS settings of the computer in order to silently direct the users to malicious websites. FBI and others took action against this malware and in November 2011 have managed to break the botnet. According to FBI, more than 4 million computers […]

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