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  • Easy Maintenance Keeps Money Where It Belongs — In Your Pocket Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 1:17PMImagine if you never changed the oil in your car, replaced worn tires, or swapped used wiper blades for new, oh, the trouble one would see. There is a better-than-average chance you have experienced a brush with infection on a Windows machine — or soon will. That is why maintenance is so important.
  • Germany launches botnet support for consumers Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 3:34AMNew service helps users remove malware Germany will soon launch a service to help consumers remove malicious software from their computers in an attempt to stem the spread of spam-sending botnets.
  • Symantec gets into bed with Snoop Dogg Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 9:01AMTHE INQUIRER Security firm launches C-rap contest
  • Trend Micro Announces Trend Micro Deep Security 7.5: New Agentless Anti-Malware Module For VMware Environments ... Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 12:26AMRecently at VMworld 2010, Trend Micro announced the latest version of its advanced security software that protects operating systems, applications and data on physical, virtual and cloud servers, and virtual desktops.
  • Buy a dockyard container scanner, get a Lamborghini collection thrown in for free Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:36PMLooking for the ultimate package deal of the day? Then you won’t want to pass up this sweet offer by seller Murcielago8898 on eBay. Right now if you purchase a 2004 Aracor Eagle, which is an X-ray scanner used in dockyards and seaports to examine the contents of shipping containers, you get a bonus that will [...]
  • IBM should be advertising like it’s 1964 Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:06PMI’m guessing I’m not alone when I admit my love of old computer photos. Anything before the PC era is sure to catch my attention, so I was more than happy to stumble on to these images from IBM. This delightful gallery is from a 1964 marketing booklet that was pushing the company’s System/360 mainframe. Check out the [...]
  • Be cautious of Internet access at airports Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 10:27AMUsing Internet access terminals at an airport might put you at risk of losing personal information.
  • Net Neutrality – Will the FCC Get It Right? Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 9:30AMAs counterintuitive as it seems, the FCC looks like the best catalyst for broadband innovation and the best protector of a truly free market.
  • What is Wrong with IE6 – and Why Consumers and SMBs Should Leave it Behind Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 7:53PMFacebook recently announced that it will stop supporting Internet Explorer 6 on its chat function with its next upgrade, planned for Sept. 15. With this move Facebook joins the German government and all the major security systems vendors in urging consumers and businesses to upgrade to IE 8 or to an alternative Web browser such [...] What is Wrong with IE6 – and Why Consumers and SMBs Should ...
  • Trend Micro Announces Trend Micro(TM) Deep Security 7.5: New Agentless Anti-Malware Module for VMware Environments ... Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 12:52PMCUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at VMworld 2010, Trend Micro announced the latest version of its advanced security software that protects operating systems, applications and data on physical, virtual and cloud servers, and virtual desktops. Trend Micro Deep Security 7.5, which leverages the latest VMware® vShield Endpoint API, now comes with a new agentless anti-malware module ...
  • Trend Micro Announces Trend Micro Deep Security 7.5: New Agentless Anti-Malware Module for VMware Environments ... Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:30AMToday at VMworld 2010, Trend Micro announced the latest version of its advanced security software that protects operating systems, applications and data on physical, virtual and cloud servers, and virtual desktops.
  • Web Host LeaseWeb Launches Community Outreach Project Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 12:29PMAugust 27, 2010 -- European Web hosting provider LeaseWeb announced on Friday it has launched a new project that will offer free server capacity and bandwidth for organizations that monitor, identify and combat the sources of spam and cybercrime.
  • Hackers and virus-makers accidentally send their code to Microsoft all the time Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 10:06AMWant to know one of the biggest and most surprising ways that Microsoft manages to protect its Windows 7 operating system from zero-day exploits, viruses and malware? According to Microsoft senior security architect Rocky Heckman, it’s the built-in crash report feature… and the ones reporting the exploits are the hackers themselves! Here’s how it works. When [...]
  • Rootkit with Blue Screen history now targets 64-bit Windows Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 8:24AMUpdates to a new version of the malware dubbed Alureon, TDL and Tidserv are designed to infect 64-bit Windows PCs for the first time.
  • Updated 'blue screen of death' rootkit now targeting 64-bit Windows Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 7:02AMA new version of the malware that crippled Windows PCs last February sidesteps safeguards designed to block rootkits from hijacking machines running 64-bit editions of Windows, researchers said Thursday. "A new era has officially dawned; the era of x64 rootkits," said Prevx researcher Marco Giuliani in a post to the company's blog yesterday.
  • Blue screen rootkit targets 64-bit Windows Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 6:49AMPrevx says era of x64 rootkits has begun A new version of the malware that crippled Windows PCs last February sidesteps safeguards designed to block rootkits from hijacking machines running 64-bit editions of Windows, according to security researchers.
  • Rootkit with Blue Screen history now targets 64-bit Windows Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 6:25AMComputerworld - A new version of the malware that crippled Windows PCs last February sidesteps safeguards designed to block rootkits from hijacking machines running 64-bit editions of Windows, researchers said Thursday.
  • Be cautious of Internet access at airports Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 10:29PMUsing Internet access terminals at an airport might put you at risk of losing personal information, according to security vendor Symantec.
  • Be cautious of Internet access at airports Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 4:17PMUsing Internet access terminals at an airport might put you at risk of losing personal information.
  • Jailbreaking your iPhone? Change your passwords Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 8:21AMSince the U.S. Copyright Office declared last month that it's legal to jailbreak your iPhone, lots of iPhone users have been doing just that -- nearly 9 percent of them as of late July.
  • Trojan uses legitimate uninstaller to remove security software Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 8:36AMSymantec is reporting that a new retrovirus, malware which disables security products, uses legitimate software uninstallers to trick users into uninstalling their security software. The technique is being implemented in a variant of the Trojan.FakeAV threat. When the Trojan file is executed a pop-up appears which asks the user to uninstall their security program since [...]
  • Growth Equity Investor Summit Partners Invests $100 Million in AVAST Software Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 2:06AMLeading Antivirus Software Developer Positioned for Continued Growth
  • Growth Equity Investor Summit Partners Invests $100 Million in AVAST Software Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 2:00AMPRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC and LONDON--(Marketwire - 08/23/10) - AVAST Software, developers of the world's most popular antivirus program, today announced that growth equity investor Summit Partners has invested $100 million for a minority stake in the company. "Summit Partners' investment is a vote of confidence in our disruptive 'freemium' business model, which combines a full-fledged free product ...
  • Scareware tries to trick marks into dropping defences Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 6:59AMStrip for me, baby Virus authors have developed a strain of malware that attempts to con users into uninstalling legitimate security packages.…
  • Ask Maggie: On being patient and keeping smartphones secure Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 6:07AMCNET's Maggie Reardon answers questions about Verizon Fios TV service, Apple's iPad, and smartphone security.
  • Mass Drive-By Attack Used Web Widget Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 11:16PMAttack used a different spin on mass injection, targeted hosting provider Network Solutions Inc.
  • Virgin Media to alert owners of malware-hosting PCs Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 1:38PMVirgin Media customers suspected of hosting malware from their PC will be alerted by a letter, the ISP has revealed.
  • Virgin Media to alert customers if their PCs contain malware Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 10:18AMISP working with Shadowserver Foundation to track IP addresses Virgin Media customers suspected of hosting malware on their PC will be alerted by a letter, the ISP has revealed.
  • iOS Patch Draws Fast Action From Jailbreakers Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 7:39AMApple has issued a patch for the two iOS vulnerabilities that allowed iPhone owners to jailbreak their devices via the Web through the site JailbreakMe.com. It triggered a variety of reactions. Comex, the coauthors of the JailBreakMe exploit that leveraged the iOS 4 vulnerabilities to jailbreak the iPhone, promptly posted the code for the exploit on the Web.
  • Trend Micro Announces Independence Day Channel Offer Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 5:17AMUnder the offer, any partner can get a 3-year Worry Free Business Security Standard for a special partner transfer price of Rs 999 per user
  • WEB/TECH: Net Neutrality Option: Remove Financial Incentives Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 4:20PMThe FCC, located in a 10-story building called "Portals 2" in Washington, D.C., will likely seek authority to enforce some sort of net neutrality rules. But what should they be? Google and Verizon made tsunami-sized waves Monday by announcing a joint proposal to create a second, closed, paid internet in addition to the free, open internet, putting heavy pressure on government regulators to do ...
  • Another Net Neutrality Option: Remove Financial Incentives Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 10:18AMGoogle and Verizon made tsunami-like waves on Monday by proposing an additional paid, closed internet to complement the free, open one we have today. That's putting massive pressure on the government to do something about net neutrality, whether or not that means following the Google/Verizon proposal. Perhaps the answer could be to allow ISPs to balance traffic loads, while barring them from ...
  • Mobile Computing, Security, and the Separation of Personal and Company Applications Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 10:06AMI clearly remember back when I first joined META Group in 2000 and was given a company laptop – and IBM ThinkPad as it happens. The tech person in our office told me, “Treat this as your own computer,” by which he meant that I was free to put whatever personal applications I wanted on [...] Mobile Computing, Security, and the Separation of Personal and Company Applications is a post from ...
  • Comment on Spies, secrets and smart-phones by dagen Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 10:19AMIngat. Jangan pegang kuat sangat ya. Nanti ketuanan tercekik. Akan mampus. Ah, masa tu habis segala-gala nya. Tips: Kalau pegang soft soft pun rasa shiok juga. Serupa aja. Akhirnya pun pasti tembak juga. Jangan bimbang.
  • First Trojan for Android Phones Goes Wild [UPDATE] Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 9:08AMGoogle Android phones must be popular - they've just been targeted with their first Trojan. An SMS Trojan called Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a has already infected a number of mobile devices, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab . Purporting to be a harmless media player application, the Trojan, once installed, actually sends out SMS text messages without the users' knowledge or consent ...
  • Spies, secrets and smart-phones Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 6:44AMby P.C. | The Economist SOME sort of a deal seems to have been thrashed out over the weekend, according to reports from Saudi Arabia, under which its spooks will be able to snoop to their heart’s content on messages sent over BlackBerrys within the kingdom. All last week, as it negotiated with the Saudi, [...]
  • Wowd Introduces a Filtered Facebook, Result Not Wowing Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 9:38AMSocial search company Wowd has introduced a new tool for advanced Facebook search, and it's a desktop app. Actually, it's a desktop app that runs in your browser..but more on that later. What Wowd promises is a tool to "filter Facebook." It lets you create custom feeds, read personalized summaries, remove game spam from your News Feed and search your social network with advanced tools. But will ...
  • Digg Investigating Claims That Conservatives Are Gaming It Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 12:29PMDigg has promised to "look into" allegations that a conservative group of users has systematically tried to remove stories with a liberal bent from the site.
  • How can CIOs combat data breaches? Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 5:43AMStuart Sumner, Computing , Thursday 5 August 2010 at 11:22:00 Enforced encryption, reporting and biometric technology are among the tools required for the modern IT manager’s arsenal Businesses are seeing an increase in malicious insider activity, according to the 2010 Data Breach Report from Verizon Business released last week. But it is not just insider threats that are a concern to businesses ...
  • Wikipedia Refuses FBI Order to Remove Seal From Site Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 12:14PMThe Federal Bureau of Investigation last month ordered Wikipedia to remove the official FBI seal from its Web site or face legal action.
  • 5 Reasons to Jailbreak Your iPhone - and 5 Reasons Not Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 10:50AMIt's easy to jailbreak your iPhone to run non-Apple approved applications. Here are 5 reasons why you might want to and you might want to think twice. IPhone - Apple - Jailbreak - Handhelds - Smartphones
  • 5 Reasons to Jailbreak Your iPhone - and 5 Reasons Not Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 10:00AMJailbreaking your iPhone has never been simpler with the latest release of JailbreakMe.
  • Are Mobsters Planting Hackers in Companies? Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 9:00AMThat is just one finding of a cybercrime report by Verizon released last week. While cybercrime fell in 2009, the report noted that hackers are getting better at what they do. Computer crime - Verizon Communications - Hacking - Verizon - Ethics
  • 'Jailbreak' unlocks iPhone 4 Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 1:55AMJailbreakme 2.0 has been released for the new iPhone, opening up a market of non-Apple approved apps.
  • New 'jailbreak' will unlock iPhone 4 Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 10:24PMLess than a week after its Australian launch, a 'jailbreak' has been released for the iPhone 4, opening up a blossoming market of non-Apple approved apps and free pirated versions of existing iTunes apps to its owners.
  • Twitter to Require Password Reset for Those Who Bought Followers Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 8:38PMTwitter is requiring password resets for users who signed up for "suspicious" third-party programs that promise to automatically (or magically) get them followers. Twitter usually pushes out password resets to users whose accounts it believes have been compromised due to phishing or other attacks. "We're currently pushing out password resets to users who signed up for 3rd party follower-adder ...
  • Microsoft releases critical patch for Windows shortcut flaw Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 11:42AMMicrosoft is releasing a patch for a zero-day Windows shell vulnerability that can spread malware through shortcut files.
  • Panda Does Well in German Antivirus Tests Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 9:07AMAV-Test, a German test lab specializing in exhaustive and sophisticated performance testing of antivirus suites, has completed its tests of Panda Internet Security 2011.
  • Google rules malware domain Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 1:44AMThe world's top Internet search engine, Google, has been named the king of malware for providing more infected search results than all other major engines combined.
  • Cybercrime: Are mobsters planting hackers in big companies? Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 7:44PMThat is just one finding of a cybercrime report by Verizon released this week. While cybercrime fell in 2009, the report noted that hackers are getting better at what they do.