Acer ahead on global emissions target

Acer will meet its global carbon emissions reduction target for 2015 ahead of schedule, with the announcement of an initiative to provide clean energy for its US-based operations. Acer has elected to join the EPA Green Power Partner programme and purchased enough...

Android app SandroRAT targets Polish banking

Europe is currently under attack by spammers trying to get control of Android devices. In Germany the distribution method is via SMS (text) messages, as you can read in this recent McAfee Labs post, while in Poland there is an on-going e-mail spam campaign...

Becoming a less attractive malware target

The high profile hacks that have flooded the news over the last year have shown that traditional security measures are no longer a match for the complex threats of today. Any business that relies only on antivirus (AV) to secure its systems and endpoints is a sitting...

Banks prime targets for phishers

Every fifth phishing attack registered between May 2012 and late April 2013 targeted users of banks and other financial organisations, according to Kaspersky Lab. The company says 20,64% of all phishing threats registered between May 2012 and April 2013 were aimed at...