05 September 2007
BitDefender Lab▓s Top 10 Malware Chart for August Reveals the Infamous ▒Storm▓ Worm is Back With a Vengeance
BUCHAREST, Romania √ September 5, 2007 √ BitDefender╝, a global provider of award-winning antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today its Top 10 malware threats in August 2007. The top of the list was dominated by e-mail threats such as the ancient Netsky.P virus and the Peed trojan (aka ▒Storm▓ worm) which came in first with 24.7% of total detected threats.
30 August 2007
BitDefender Continues to Top Malware Detection Charts, Retaining Position as World▓s Strongest Single Engine Antivirus Solution
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. √ August 30, 2007 √ BitDefender╝, a global provider of award-winning antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today that its antivirus engine detected 99.51% of the malware in independent tests conducted by AV-Test.org of Germany. In doing so, BitDefender led all other single-engine competitors in finding the most malware, once again demonstrating the powerful capabilities of its patent-pending B-HAVE╝ advanced detection techniques
23 August 2007
BitDefender 2008 Provides Industry▓s Most Powerful Protection from Internet Security Threats
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. √ August 23, 2007 √ BitDefender╝, a global provider of award-winning antivirus software and data security solutions, has launched BitDefender 2008 √ its new line of security solutions providing state-of-the-art proactive protection from today▓s most damaging viruses, spyware, hackers, spam, phishing attacks, and other common Internet security threats.
22 August 2007
Computer Security Needs to be a Top Priority for College Students
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. √ August 22, 2007 √ As the start of another school year quickly approaches, BitDefender╝, a global provider of award-winning antivirus software and data security solutions, warns college students about the need to protect their computers with the latest security software updates before heading back to school.
14 August 2007
BitDefender Labs Reports on the Most Common Types of Image and Text Spam in 2007
BUCHAREST, Romania √ August 14, 2007 √ BitDefender╝, a global provider of award-winning antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today that its labs have reported on the subject matters most commonly related to image and text spam within the first half of 2007.
08 August 2007
Trojan Now Uses Hotmail, Gmail as Spam Hosts
BUCHAREST, Romania √ August 7, 2007 √ Following a joint effort by BitDefender and Yahoo security teams, the efforts of the criminals behind Trojan.Spammer.HotLan to generate and use Yahoo accounts to send spam seems to have been stymied.
06 August 2007
BitDefender Labs Reports Top Malware for First Half of 2007
BUCHAREST, Romania √ July 30, 2007 √ BitDefender╝, a global provider of award-winning antivirus software and data security solutions, unveiled its report of the Top 10 malware threats for 1H 2007. The main threats detected by BitDefender Labs between January and the end of June were mass mailers and trojans. The Peed trojan was the top threat to date in 2007, variants of which accounted for more than 30% of all threats detected.
26 July 2007
Financial Results Position BitDefender as World's Fastest Growing Antivirus Software Company in 2005
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., February 7, 2007, BitDefenderб╝, an award-winning provider of antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today that it has been positioned by industry research firm IDC as the world's fastest growing antivirus software vendor in its Worldwide Antivirus 2006-2010 Forecast Update and 2005 Vendor Analysis report.
Bitdefender e-Guides Series
The Bitdefender e-Guides series is a learning initiative aiming to provide the Bitdefender reader and user community with valuable information about e-threats and the security issues of the IT&C realm, while also offering practical advice and feasible solutions to their on-line defense needs. The Bitdefender security analysts share their knowledge in malware prevention, identification and annihilation, with an emphasis on on-line privacy and different technologies, countermeasures and cybercrime prevention methods.
Covering topics that range from kids and family's on-line protection, safe social networking and preventing data safety breaches to securing enterprise environments, the e-Guides series is intended for a broad audience of small organizations and individual users concerned about the safety and integrity of their networks and systems. The e-Guides also address issues pertaining to the daily activity of IT&C Systems Security Managers, System and Network Administrators, Security Technology Developers, Analysts, and Researchers.
Safe Blogging Guide
Tips and tricks on how to keep your blog and your identity safe
Blogging is one of the most popular forms of written expression on the web, with more than 150 million indexed blogs worldwide. While regular readers are looking for pieces of information and articles, cyber-crooks take a different interest in them. Finding private information and getting cheap storage space for their malware campaigns are only two of the multitude of users they may subject your blog to.
This material covers the basic guidelines for safe blogging and is especially focused on individual blogs that are either self-hosted or provided as a service by major blog providers.
Securing Wireless Networks Guide
Tips and tricks on how to shield your home network from intruders
This document is intended for computer users who have deployed or plan to deploy a home wireless network. At a time when wireless communication has become a significant part of our lives, cyber-criminals try to exploit every security breach in the wireless configuration in order to intercept traffic or use the internet connection for illegal purposes.
The following guide will teach you the best practices when using unsecured wireless networks, as well as how to properly configure your home router or access point to prevent others from abusing your network.
Protecting Children On-line Guide
How to secure and defend the digital experience of your kids
This document is intended for family, parents and teachers and its purpose is to help secure the digital activities of kids and teens. In an age when the mass production and accessibility of computers have turned these devices into regular family or household commodities, children get familiar with PCs and Internet from a very fresh age. Despite its obvious communication-related benefits, the WWW can also be a hazardous place for kids, with e-threats directly targeting their age group and their home or school computers.
This e-Guide covers the main risks and dangers for kids on-line, such as cyber-bulling, exposure to inappropriate content, on-line addiction and other harmful online actions, while also focusing on topics such as malware, phishing, ID theft and spam, to which teenagers, just as any other Internet users, are exposed nowadays. A Safety Tips section helps parents and teachers better understand and deal with these issues in relation to the kids.
Silver Surfers On-line Safety Guide
How to protect valuable ideas and assets from cyber-hacking
This document is intended for families and senior citizens and its purpose is to help them browse the web safely and enjoy their on-line activities.
At a first glance, it would appear that senior citizens are exposed to cybercrime just as much as any other inexperienced Internet user, irrespective of their age. However, as this e-Guide shows through several case studies, there are several risks and dangers targeting directly silver surfers, such as pension delivery and fallacious tax paying methods or income-related scams. Examples, tips and advice complement the case studies and provide readers with useful guidelines in their daily on-line routine.
Preventing Data Breaches Guide
How to protect valuable ideas and assets from cyber-hacking
The e-guide was designed to cover the various potential sore points of business data safety, from the matter of the network's physical integrity to the complicated mechanisms of business targeted cybercrime (e.g. banker Trojans, phishing). This material is also intended to match, though not in as much detail as a full-fledged technical description, the features of the various consumer and business oriented Bitdefender solutions to the situations in which they might come in handy to IT administrators.
Consulting this document would be useful in the process of deciding what's best for small to medium-sized networks security and a solid basis for further comparative research on this subject.
White Papers
- Bitdefender Case Study: Kids and Online Threats
- Facebook Whitepaper
- Bitdefender Antivirus Technology
- B-HAVE ,The Road to Success
- The medium or the message? Dealing with image spam, December 2006, Virus Bulletin
- Fighting Image Spam
- Bitdefender NeuNet Antispam Technology
- Proactive security I body armor against business attacks
- Whitepaper-Emerging Threats to Business Security
- Securing the Uncertain Bitdefender's B-HAVE Proactive Technology for Defense against Versatile_Threats
- Securing E-Mail-The First Strategic Defense Line
- Virus Naming. The "Who's Who?" Dilemma
- Facebook – Another breach in the wall
- Bitdefender Active Virus Control: Proactive Protection Against New and Emerging Threats
Bitdefender E-Threats Landscape Reports
The purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive investigation of the threats’ landscape. Bitdefender’s security experts thoroughly analyze and examine the menaces of the each semester, focusing on software vulnerabilities and exploits, different types of malware, as well as countermeasures, cyber crime prevention and law enforcement. The E-Threats Landscape Report concentrates mainly on the latest trends, but it also contains facts and data and concerning the previously investigated periods, as well as several predictions related to the upcoming semesters. This document is primarily intended for IT&C System’s Security Managers, System and Network Administrators, Security Technology Developers, Analysts, and Researchers, but it also addresses issues pertaining to a broader audience, like small organizations or individual users concerned about the safety and integrity of their networks and systems.
H2 2012 E-Threat Landscape Report - Overview
For the first half of the year, zero-day vulnerabilities played an essential role in disseminating malware with exploit packs as a favorite vector of infection. The dangerous zero-day exploit in the Java Runtime Environment (CVE-2012-4681) was documented and proof of concept was added to Metasploit, which became public knowledge before a fix was made available.
As a direct result, three billion devices running Java were vulnerable to remote code exploitation for roughly 48 hours. A second exploit hit in September and targeted Internet Explorer 9. Successful exploitation would allow remote compromise of the system with the installation of the Poison Ivy backdoor. Both zero-day exploits were used in advanced persistent attacks.
2012 saw fluctuations in the amount of junk e-mail as a proportion of e-mail traffic. The year began with a slight decrease in spam e-mails, but spam constantly gained ground towards the middle of the year. According to data gathered from the Bitdefender Antispam lab, the second half saw growth again, with small variations towards the end of 2012. The increase in the number of junk e-mails was nonetheless minor, by only 5%, leading to a rough value of 73% of the total number of e-mails sent worldwide.
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Archive
2012
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2011
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2010
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2009
Download now H1 2009 Malware and Spam Review Executive Summary (pdf)
Download now H1 2009 E-Threats Landscape Report (pdf)
Download now H2 2009 Malware and Spam Review (pdf)
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2008
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