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Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) to be retired

By Ayush Vij | March 13, 2018

There are many users on the Internet who use Secunia or Flexera Personal Software Inspector (PSI) to keep their devices secure. What PSI does is, it detects outdated or vulnerable software on your machine running Windows. In this way, it either applies […]

Behavior monitoring & Machine learning capabilities behind Windows Defender successful Dofoil diffuse

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | March 13, 2018

Microsoft’s homegrown security antivirus Windows Defender recently prevented a major coin mining malware epidemic, Dofoil. It successfully blocked more than 80,000 instances of several sophisticated trojans that exhibited advanced cross-process injection techniques, persistence mechanisms, and evasion methods. Windows Defender successful […]

Windows Defender AV achieves a perfect score in the latest AVT Protection test

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | March 12, 2018

Windows Defender AV has achieved a perfect score in the latest AVT Protection test. The test was performed in two months, namely November and December. The test results came out 100% in both Real World and Prevalent malware tests in […]

Windows Defender just prevented a dangerous crypto mining malware epidemic

By AnandKhanse@TWC | March 12, 2018

Windows Defender recently prevented a crypto mining malware epidemic from spreading to millions of PCs across the World. The trojan, known by the name – Dofoil or Smoke Loader, had plans to deliver a range of coin miner payload on […]

McAfee acquires TunnelBear, a leading consumer VPN company

By MahitHuilgol@TWC | March 12, 2018

TunnelBear is known for its products like the TunnelBear VPN and the recently launched TunnelBear password manager. The latest news is that McAfee has closed the acquisition of TunnelBear and with this, the former is aiming to enhance its Advanced […]

Windows 10 suggests you move away from WMP to the Movies and TV app

By Karan Khanna | March 9, 2018

Microsoft is working hard to get its Windows 10 customers to shift from using its Windows Media Player software to the Movie and TV app. The software has been a mainstay of Windows for many iterations, and it seems it […]

Researchers bypass Windows Login Screen using Cortana; Microsoft fixes the vulnerability

By MahitHuilgol@TWC | March 9, 2018

Password has always been the first line of defence when it comes to protecting our computers, smartphones or any other electronic devices. While newer laptops are offering authentication features like the fingerprint sensor and Windows Hello, the password is still […]