You need antivirus software. Attacks on your PC keep getting more sophisticated, thanks to the help of AI—we’re seeing more and more AI-fueled attacks as the months tick by. Even the tech-savvy and ...

We're on the heels of 2026, and I can confidently say that you don't really need a third-party antivirus program on your PC.

"Out of the box" doesn’t mean "out of the woods." These essential first steps will tidy up Windows, lock it down, and get ...

The malware is arriving through a torrent for One Battle After Another. Pirated downloads of the film have been circulating on peer-to-peer networks, but this particular torrent installs an infamous ...

The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments totaling nearly $15.3 million to consumers who were affected by deceptively marketed antivirus software from Avast. View Press Release: https://www.ftc ...

Gen’s CMO Krista Todd believes the AI-created campaign will have saved the team in the region of a million dollars, but saved ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

A software programmer developed a way to use brute force to break the encryption of the notorious Akira ransomware using GPU compute power and enabling some victims of the Linux-focused variant of the ...

The so-called GhostPairing scam takes advantage of legitimate features in order to trick WhatsApp users into linking their ...

Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a new WhatsApp scam called GhostPairing that can lead to impersonation, targeted fraud ...

With DroidLock, crooks take over a phone and threaten to delete its data if the owner doesn't pay up. Follow these steps to ...

In November this year, security researchers from Bitdefender reported Curly COMrades running remote commands to enable the ...