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TL;DR: Never click on links in SMS or emails to enter sensitive information into a website. Always use your stored bookmark or type the website address known to your into your browser. If it’s pressuring your to act quickly – do the opposite: take a breath, pause, verify. Trust your gut if it...

Here at Spybot, we’ve always loved a little mystery. That’s why we’ve tucked away a digital Easter egg somewhere inside Spybot Anti-Beacon—a small surprise that’s waiting to be found by clever users. And this one’s not just for fun—it might be especially relevant to what’s going on in the world...

There’s an old joke that the internet is basically made up of two things: adult content and cat pictures. While that might get a laugh, it also points to a very real trend in the history of online security—one that hackers have been exploiting for decades. In the early days of the web, adult...

Signal, the renowned encrypted messaging app, has recently been at the center of cybersecurity discussions due to the exploitation of its linked devices feature by malicious actors. Understanding this vulnerability and knowing how to manage linked devices can significantly enhance your...

We’re happy to share that with our next releases, both Spybot – Search & Destroy and BrowsAlyzer will officially support the Zen Browser, a Firefox-based alternative that’s gaining traction among users looking for more control over their online experience. At Spybot, we believe your browser...

Loading as many browsers as in our test environment can be time consuming... so here's a screenshot of what it will look like in the next release. By the way, most of these installations are sandboxed or portable installations, which are supported as well of course.

It happened to one of the most respected figures in cybersecurity—Troy Hunt, founder of the popular data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned, recently shared that he was caught off guard by a phishing email. While traveling and feeling the effects of jet lag, Troy received what looked...

Welcome to our weekly look back. The biggest issue this week surely was the hiccup at Verifone, who mixed up purchase confirmation templates. Thankfully, no customer data was leaked, but we spent a lot of time researching due to lack of timely support from their side. On the bug fixing side...

Sick of Firefox’ latest Privacy Policy changes? Use a privacy focused clone! In late February, Mozilla changed the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy of the Firefox browser. While not as widely spread as some years ago, it still has a significant user base, for example among people trying to...

If you’ve bought Spybot from our shop in the past week, you might have noticed an email from 2Checkout sending you instructions to activate your Dirac product. We’ve worked with Dirac to make sure no data is leaked to them, and Verifone has now also confirmed that they simply mixed up email...

We’ve just pushed an update to our new Anti-Beacon release from last week, fixing two bugs that were reported on our support forum. Anti-Beacon 5.1.1 This support forum has received a new search filter called Issue Tracker, accessible from its Spybot menu, where you can get a quick overview of...

The Shredder initially was part of Spybot 1, and a simple and quick way to get rid of files without too much effort. It renamed files before removal, and overwrote them a specified number of times, to make recovery as difficult to impossible as possible. We did remove the shredder in Spybot 2...

So we’ve released Spybot Identity Monitor 5.1 and Spybot Anti-Beacon 5.1 as planed, and Spybot Secure Shredder 5.1 is about to come as well, but that was easy, since everything was prepared last week. We also started using the WhatsApp channel we set up last year and will integrate it into our...

The latest iteration of Anti-Beacon 5.1, delivers even more Immunizers than ever before! Download Along with a new visualized version of the Live Monitor introduced in 4.1. Now you can see what Anti-Beacon blocks in real time, giving a better overview of the Telemetry being blocked, and what...

If you see the term 2CO.com|Spybot – Searc or similar on your bank or credit card statement, you’ve probably bought a Spybot product from us. Some customers have checked back with us if this is a legit purchase, because part of the subject (“2CO.com”) might be confusing. Kudos to those users –...

Our first release this week is version 5.1 of Spybot Identity Monitor. It brings mostly bug fixes and tiny improvements to further smooth the experience of using it. For any questions, please head over to our refreshed support forum. The post Spybot Identity Monitor 5.1 released appeared first...

Our first release this week is version 5.1 of Spybot Identity Monitor. It brings mostly bug fixes and tiny improvements to further smooth the experience of using it. Head over to the website or the forum resource for more details.

The most common door for malware these days is the Internet. And by Internet, we mean either emails or visited websites. Knowing browsers inside out is therefore an essential part of anti malware forensics. Our anti-malware solution [url)=/forums/spybot-search-destroy/]Spybot - Search...

This week has been spent with preparations to getting back to more regular release cycles. We’ve got so many new ideas that we sometimes tend to add more and more, but never finishing new tested releases, so we’ve now planned to release new product versions each quarter with whatever features...