Stephanie Adlam

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The Facebook Pixel Hunt

ByStephanie AdlamJanuary 18, 2022

Mozilla, a browser maker, these days introduced its collaboration with a non-earnings newsroom Markup. The collective efforts of companies could be directed toward studies into a selected subject of the net that regularly stays disregarded through customers, researchers and

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Is Vulkan RT a virus?

ByStephanie AdlamJanuary 5, 2022

As a user, you may have concerns when you notice an unknown folder and a program icon in the Windows Start Menu, both named Vulkan RT. What is this program? Whence it came? Is Vulkan RT a virus? Should I remove it? If these questions flash in your mind, you’ve come to

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Volvo Cars under Snatch attack

ByStephanie AdlamJanuary 4, 2022

In its press release, Volvo Cars, a Swedish multinational luxury vehicle manufacturer based in Torslanda, Gothenburg, reported unlawful third party access to its records. Upon discovery of the violation, the company notified the relevant authorities and took steps to prevent

ByStephanie AdlamDecember 29, 2021

Antivirus, anti-malware software, antivirus scanner… There are so many terms, and all of them look so similar, but they’re different. It is so easy to confuse the user who does not have any information about all these things. Thus, it is important to clear out these things

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Script-based malware. How to stay protected?

ByStephanie AdlamDecember 29, 2021

Over the last four years, the share of script-based attacks of malware offenses worldwide has grown so drastically that it raised alerts among security specialists and ordinary users. In this post, we shall regard script-based malware, assess its strengths and weaknesses,

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Magnat campaigns delivering fake installers

ByStephanie AdlamDecember 23, 2021

Cyber security specialists warn of the Magnat malicious distribution waves targeted at the potential users of some most popular software. Threat actors use the methods of malvertising to successfully distribute their malicious software installer. The work presents itself

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Slow PC. Possible causes and how to fix them

ByStephanie AdlamDecember 23, 2021

Have you been noticing strange decelerations or even freezings in the work of your computer lately? Has it become noisier, as if it struggles, loaded with tasks when you know you gave it none? If this sounds familiar, you need to find a reason for such a slow PC trouble. It

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Malware vs. Virus. Difference explained

ByStephanie AdlamDecember 22, 2021

The topic of this small post is malware vs. virus conceptual clarification. We remember times when people used to call any harmful program a “virus”. Today this “malware” term popped out! How do these words correlate? People seem to use them freely

ByStephanie AdlamDecember 21, 2021

Worst computer virus – what is it? Seems that anyone who has ever been infected asks this question. And each user will think that his case was more severe than someone’s else. Is that true? And which virus is really the worst? It is important to mention that computer

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Apache Log4j Vulnerability explained by Google

ByStephanie AdlamDecember 21, 2021

On December 17th, 2021 in their blog Google Open Source Insights Team explained the whole situation they observed concerning Apache Log4j Vulnerability. They described the widespread vulnerability and current progress in fixing the open source JVM ecosystem. Also Team shared