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• Pintrest’s popularity has made it a target of scams: Bitdefender

  By Patrick Budmar | 20 April, 2012 16:45

  It looks like honeymoon period for Pintrest is over, as the popular content sharing service has now become the target of scams, according to Bitdefender.

• Computer Trojan horse steals credit card details from hotel reception software

  By Lucian Constantin | 19 April, 2012 01:39

  A remote access computer Trojan (RAT) designed to steal credit card details from hotel point-of-sale (PoS) applications is being sold on the underground forums, researchers from security firm Trusteer said in a blog post on Wednesday.

• 2012 the year of malware? Bitdefender has foreseen it

  By Patrick Budmar | 20 January, 2012 16:07

  Security vendor expects malware to rise by 23 per cent in 2012 due to increased attacks on android devices and social networks

• Westpac Group customers handed free BitDefender Internet Security

  By Nermin Bajric | 11 January, 2012 15:34

  Financial services company, Westpac Group, has partnered with Internet security solutions provider, BitDefender, to offer customers a free one-year subscription to BitDefender Internet Security 2012.

• Flash Player scam charges victims for free program via SMS

  By Jeremy Kirk | 17 December, 2011 03:38

  A creative scheme that charges people via SMS for what should be a free copy of Adobe Systems' Flash player is apparently undergoing a test run on a Russian social network, according to security vendor Bitdefender.

• Yahoo Messenger flaw enables spamming through other people's status messages

  By Lucian Constantin | 03 December, 2011 00:12

  An unpatched Yahoo Messenger vulnerability that allows attackers to change people's status messages and possibly perform other unauthorized actions can be exploited to spam malicious links to a large number of users.

• Don't blame Anonymous for Facebook porn storm, says researcher

  By Gregg Keizer | 18 November, 2011 05:58

  The recent spam attack that planted pornographic images on Facebook was not the work of Anonymous, a security researcher said today.

• Study: Hackers, IT pros share personal information online

  By Christina DesMarais | 16 October, 2011 04:52

  Hackers apparently can be just as careless as their victims.

• Android users: Advice to protect your phones

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 26 September, 2011 02:40

  Android smartphone users can take some commonsense precautions to protect their personal data from being stolen -- important advice considering an app developer purports to know how to take the information in under 60 seconds.

• Bitdefender rolls out public beta of Safego for Twitter

  By Patrick Budmar | 19 September, 2011 13:35

  With Twitter recently breaking the 100 million mark for active users worldwide, and on track to add a further 26 million by the end of 2011, staying secure on the social network is also becoming increasingly important.

• VMware strives to expand security partner ecosystem

  By Ellen Messmer | 01 September, 2011 05:43

  VMware yesterday said it has added more security vendor partners to its vShield product-development program in which security firms work with the company to develop data protection specifically designed for VMware's flagship virtualization platform, which today is vSphere 5.0.

• PRODUCTS: Bitdefender launches Total Security 2012 in A/NZ

  By Patrick Budmar | 17 August, 2011 12:38

  Total Security 2012 is being launched alongside sister products Internet Security 2012 and Antivirus Plus 2012, and is available in Australia starting from $89.95 for a one year, single user license.

• Microsoft Security Essentials struggles in antivirus tests

  By John E Dunn | 05 May, 2011 03:22

  Microsoft's popular free antivirus program Security Essentials has put in a mediocre showing in the latest quarterly tests from German test outfit AV-Test.org, finishing second bottom out of 22 products.

• Antivirus 2011: Digital defenders

  By PC World Staff | 26 January, 2011 06:29

  If you haven't bought a new version of your antivirus software in a couple of years, now may be a good time to do so. Malware is evolving faster than ever, and the latest generation of antivirus software is better equipped to handle this rapid pace of change. If your antivirus software is a few years old, it may not be able to defend against this on­­slaught effectively, even if you faithfully download new virus definitions. In recent years, the technology that powers antivirus software has changed dramatically: An antivirus package you purchased a few years ago may be able to stop known viruses and other known malware, but brand-new, as-yet unknown viruses can be more dangerous, and newer products do a much better job of stopping them.

• BitDefender Antivirus Pro 2011

  By Nick Mediati | 30 November, 2010 13:48

  BitDefender Antivirus Pro 2011 ($US40 for a one-year, three-PC license as of 11/23/2010) ranks second in our roundup of 2011 paid antivirus software. In our tests, it did a good job at detecting malware, and was the top performer at removing infections from a PC, which pushed it up the leaderboard, but it had some trouble blocking live malware attacks, preventing it from climbing any higher.