Category: antivirus

Multiple antivirus apps are vulnerable to common security flaws

Post author By Randall
Post date April 26, 2020
Categories In antivirus, avg, eset, exploit, f-secure, gear, Internet, kaspersky, linux, Mac, malware, malwarebytes, mcafee, Microsoft, News, Security, software, sophos, symantec, symlink race, Tech, vulnerability, webroot, windows

[ad_1] Intruders would still need to download and run the necessary code before launching a symlink race, so this is more of a tool to facilitate an existing breach than start it. Researchers also noted that most of the vendors (including AVG, F-Secure, McAfee and Symantec) have fixed the bugs, some of them quietly. This […]

Avast is shutting down its subsidiary that sold user data

Post author By Randall
Post date January 30, 2020
Categories In all clicks feed, antivirus, avast, business, data, gear, Internet, jumpshot, selling, Tech, user data

[ad_1] Motherboard and PCMag found that Avast had been selling a whole host of sensitive user information, including Google searches, Google Maps queries and even LinkedIn and YouTube activity data to some of the world’s largest companies. The company obtained this data through its anti-virus software, which it then packaged and sold through Jumpshot. And […]

Avast packaged detailed user data to be sold for millions of dollars

Post author By Randall
Post date January 27, 2020
Categories In all clicks feed, antivirus, avast, business, data, expedia, gear, Google, home depot, Intel, Internet, intuit, investigation, jumpshot, Microsoft, pepsi, Security, selling, software, Tech, user data

[ad_1] The investigation incriminates a lot of big name companies. We don’t know for certain which are past, present or potential clients, but the list includes Expedia, Intuit, Keurig, Condé Nast, Sephora, Loreal and more. Microsoft said it doesn’t have a current relationship with the company. Yelp said Jumpshot was “engaged on a one-time basis,” […]

Two thirds of Android antivirus apps don’t work properly

Post author By Randall
Post date March 17, 2019
Categories In Android, antivirus, av-comparatives, gear, malware, Mobile, Security, Smartphone, Tech, virus
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[ad_1] In some cases, the failure is a simple one: they’re not really scanning app code. AV-Comparatives found that are just using app whitelists or blacklists, and sometimes very broad ones at that. They may allow all apps whose package files start with “com.instagram,” but it would be trivial to create rogue apps that used […]