When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Bitdefender vs. Malwarebytes: Which Antivirus Offers Better Protection? Malwarebytes is best known for its free malware cleanup tool, but its full-featured antivirus software is also worth considering ...

With viruses, ransomware, spyware, infostealers, and outright scams, online fraud has been a pervasive and growing problem. In the US, one in three people who reported fraud last year lost money, with ...

The earliest antivirus programs identified known malware by matching byte patterns called signatures. Modern malware techniques defeat signature-based detection, so modern antivirus apps like ...

This was not a single company breach, the credentials were harvested from millions of infected user devices using infostealer ...

Unlike traditional attacks that rely on exploits, this succeeds through social engineering combined with abuse of Windows' own security architecture.