Active Threat: Beta Bot

Beta Bot is a nasty type of Trojan first discovered in 2013 that infects computers, disables their antivirus and malware scanning software and also prevents users from accessing security – oriented websites. It disguises itself as a MS Windows message box usually titled, ‘User Account Controls’ and asks the user to allow the ‘Windows Command […]

Definition of the Day: DDoS Attacks

A DDoS attack is the shortened form of a Distributed Denial of Service attack. Also known as a Distributed Network Attack, DDoS attacks exploit the physical limitations of a website’s server architecture such that the website doesn’t function and/or is totally inaccessible and broken. This is one of the oldest and simplest forms of web […]