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Are you safeguarding your important passwords? Have the e-mails you sent been accessed by unwanted eyes? How private are your personal documents? In today’s world, with cyber crime rates at record highs, it’s no wonder that consumers have concerns like these about their sensitive information.
As more and more data is stored on our computers and sent back and forth electronically from person to person, it’s easier than ever before for confidential information to fall into the wrong hands. The result: loss of privacy and even identity theft.
Scammers continue to update their old malicious tricks, and develop new ones to get past your defenses. This coming season is no different. Stay safe this Halloween season and beyond with a quick overview of these security advices in honor of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month.
Rapid development cycles are vital for us at Lavasoft. We want to continuously deliver robust technologies to our users. For that very reason, we have released the newest version of Ad-Aware 10.3.
In September, we organized a small giveaway to our faithful users on Facebook. The enthusiasm and responses were very impressive... We want to be more engaged with our users through the social media giant so we decided to be creative and we’re pretty happy how it turned out. Our users love us!
In honor of Halloween season and all things scary, we’ve compiled a roundup of ‘spooky’ online trends and news from around the world this past month…
Lavasoft, the original anti-malware company, today unveiled the newest version of Ad-Aware, Version 10.3. This new version comprises incremental improvements with the main objective of enhancing the user experience.
We have some great news, folks!
Ad-Aware is now officially a part of Microsoft's consumer security software provider! Being an antivirus partner for Microsoft is definitely another milestone for us here at Lavasoft. All of our Ad-Aware products are now compatible with Windows 7, XP & Vista.
With school and college terms now in full swing, there’s no better time for teachers and families to learn about the simple steps to take to stay safe and secure online. While the Internet is a limitless tool for children to learn and play, at the same time they often lack the knowledge they need on how to stay safe online. New malware traps are being set and online tricks being pulled, it's important to keep an eye on the ways you can help them to understand the threats they may face this season.
This September, we are partnering with our associate at Hakin9. Hakin9 is a weekly e-magazine devoted to all things IT security.
The magazine covers breaking industry news, new hacker threats and attacks, different techniques of defense and protection methods, security tips and tools and latest trends in IT Security.
Hakin9 has 4 different editions every month.
Spam can be frustrating. Unfortunately there are many ways spammers can find out about your email address and then send spam to you. There is very little we can do to avoid ending up on a list of targets for spammers. The reality is that this is one of the main problems of today’s internet.
Lavasoft News has compiled a list of "security shorts" - summaries of other online security stories making news around the world this past month.
Facebook has launched a new email address, phish@fb.com. This email is dedicated for its users to report any activities that are linked to phisihing. This includes any receiving phishing emails that seek to trick members into revealing their personal account information.
This is another step for the social network giant is taking to stop phishing lurking in their system. The email address accepts reports of any such phishing attempts, saying they will “investigate and request for browser blacklisting and site takedowns where appropriate.”