According to the AV-TEST Security Report 2016/2017 published by the independent anti-virus testing outfit AV-TEST, the number of malware decreases, but … According to the AV-TEST Security Report 2016/2017 published by the independent anti-virus testing outfit AV-TEST, the number of malware samples detected in 2016 decreased compared to 2015, but they have been more sophisticated. The recent NotPetya and WannaCry ransomware-based massive attacks, IoT […]
2015 awards – For the fifth year in succession the AV-TEST Institute is awarding firms that offered the most efficient IT protection solutions. On February 17, 2016, the independent institute AV-TESTÂ is awarding the AV-TEST AWARDs to companies who developed antivirus software in 2015. The awards were assigned to products grouped in the categories “PROTECTION”, “PERFORMANCE” […]
Chinese Antivirus vendor Qihoo submitted products specifically tuned for the major testing labs, while was offering something different to its users. The news is disconcerting, the Chinese security firm Qihoo (CHEE-hoo) 360, is providing to its hundreds of millions of users a product that differs from the one the it has submitted to the major testing […]
The Independent institute AV-Test issued an analysis that recorded 143 Million new malware samples in 2014 and 12 million new variants per month. The German independent IT security institute AV-Test has published an interesting statistic on the current diffusion of malicious code, the data reveal that experts noticed 12 million new variants per month. AV-Test provides […]