The evolution of anti-virus solutions continues
"Anti-virus is dead" - again. AV has been dying for the last decades. 15 years ago Dr. Alan Solomon, a highly respected security expert and founder of a pioneering anti-virus software company, made the same statement. AV also deceased when the first behavior-based products entered the market....
Attackers misuse the good reputation of AV companies to spread malware
Experts at G Data SecurityLabs have been made aware of a nasty scam that attackers are currently using to spread specific variants of the ZeuS banking Trojan. Fake invoices with an infected attachment claim to have been scanned for malware and rated as harmless by G Data or Sophos – which is a...
It’s high time to say goodbye: Windows XP‘s end of life is dawning
For months, tech magazines and the media have been reporting about the end of support of Microsoft’s very popular products in April 2014: Windows XP and Office 2003. But many end users and especially business users are still booting their Win XP computers day by day –they put their computers...
EICAR 2013 Conference
From November 17th to 19th, the 22nd EICAR Conference was held at the Leibnitz University in Hanover (Germany), the home of the well known Institute for Legal Informatics. For the last 22 years, the EICAR Conference has gained a solid reputation in the IT security world. This year, the EICAR...
Android malware barometer shows that a storm is brewing
For cyber criminals, Android is the number one mobile target. G Data Security Labs registered almost 520,000 new malicious files for the operating system in the first half of 2013, as shown by the current G Data Mobile Malware Report. Versatile Trojan horses were the perpetrators' weapon of choice...
Mobile malware: the "barrier of the beast" is broken
The timing could not have been more appropriate: June 2013, the sixth month of the year 2013. In this sixth month, experts at G Data Security Labs have seen a landmark for evil surpassed – more than 666,666 unique mobile malware programs for the Android platform have now been amassed in their...
Multi-factor authentication
During the last few months, we have noticed that there is a lot of confusion about the topic of two- and multi-factor authentication. Often when online banking apps or extra security layers are added to online accounts, there is a false claim of multi-factor authentication. I have even heard someone...
Do you want to know a secret?
February 5th was Safer Internet Day. Just like many companies in the IT security field, G Data also contributed with some easy but useful security tips, that were linked to this year’s general topics ‘Connect with Respect’ and ‘Online Rights and Responsibilities'.
Happy New Malware Year
Every holiday season, almost nothing feels better than giving someone you care about the one gift he or she truly wanted. We all are more than happy to enjoy a couple of days off but it seems as if the bad guys were using these days to dig up exploit possibilities and other bugs inside the software...
Make updates! Restart your computer!
After years of insisting on the importance of updating and patching, most people know by now that it is wise to perform updates. Unfortunately, many people tend to think about the operating system updates only. They neglect so-called third party software, such as Adobe PDF, Adobe Flash and Oracle...