The Snowden leaks revealed many secrets regarding the efforts of the United States National Security Agency to snoop on unsuspecting individuals and one of their projects involved infecting BIOS ...

Google bought VirusTotal, an online virus and URL scanner, back in 2012 and it continues to run as an independent company even today. Their website and Mac app offers a very useful utility that lets ...

BIOS firmware is the root of your electronic devices, dictating communication between a computer's hardware and operating system from the boot-up process. It's an insulated layer in most devices, and ...

In context: Launched in 2004 by Spanish security company Hispasec Sistemas, VirusTotal is a renown online scanning system aggregating many third-party antivirus engines (we use it at TechSpot to scan ...

Before companies like Microsoft and Apple release new software, the code is reviewed and tested to ensure it works as planned and to find any bugs. Hackers and cybercrooks do the same. The last thing ...

VirusTotal announced on Monday the launch of a new artificial intelligence-based code analysis feature named Code Insight. The new feature is powered by the Google Cloud Security AI Workbench ...

Google may, however, want to tie VirusTotal into…SafeBrowsing [which] currently processes around 1 million submissions per week. … Google has plenty of reasons to want better URL and download analysis ...

VirusTotal, a popular web-based virus scanning tool, announced its very own acquisition by Google. While details regarding the deal remain mostly secretive, VirusTotal says it will continue to operate ...

Earlier this year, Alphabet unveiled Chronicle as the latest project to graduate from its X moonshot factory and now the company is releasing an enterprise version of its VirusTotal malware scanning ...

VirusTotal, an online malware and virus scanner, was just acquired by Google. The company already used a number of Google services ahead of the acquisition, including App Engine and Google Storage.