Allchin Disputes Sophos Vista Claims
After the Sophos security firm claimed three of the top ten pieces of malware in the wild in November 2006 could affect the new Vista operating system, Microsoft executive Jim Allchin had his engineers investigate the claim.
Date: 2006-12-21
Computer Security Still Damaged By Social Engineering
Interesting article out of CIO magazine about Vista, and that while it is a highly secure operating system, with some neat things it can do, it still is not invulnerable to those programs that require social engineering to get the user to do something. <
Date: 2006-12-06
Is Your Antivirus Effective in Detecting Spyware?
Download CounterSpy Enterprise today and see whether your current antivirus solution is effective at detecting spyware. You can't afford to have a false sense of security.
Date: 2006-12-05
FTC Pops The Clutch On Media Motor
Notorious PC hijacker software Media Motor had its doors blown off by the Federal Trade Commission, which persuaded a US District Court to shut down its distributors. That's just the start of ERG Ventures' troubles.
Date: 2006-11-15
Digital Privacy – A Shattered Utopia
Recent reports of YouTube and Yahoo's cooperation in providing private user data to third parties has drawn the attention and criticism of bloggers and information journalists alike. The question begins to arise: Just how private is your online life?
Date: 2006-11-01
A Little Rant About Passwords
Passwords are one of the most basic forms of data security. They are the first option that comes to mind when attempting to secure a computer system, network, or even a file. But at what point do passwords become cumbersome for legitimate users, but secure enough to retain data security?
Date: 2006-10-18
McAfee Acquires Citadel
McAfee, Inc. announced it will acquire all of the assets of Citadel Security Software Inc. for approximately $56 million in cash, plus an estimated $4 million in working capital reimbursement.
Date: 2006-10-04
Evolution Of The Hacker Threat
Internet attacks are increasing in number and complexity. The simplicity of attacks
such as Slammer has given way to more sophisticated attacks.
Date: 2006-09-13
Study
Claims Many Network Attacks Preventable
But the study commissioned by Phoenix Technologies found that the worst cases of damage to organizations impacted by a network attack came from computers where attackers logged into accounts with elevated privileges.
Date: 2006-08-30
Microsoft Responds On RSS Concerns
After a Black Hat presentation called the potential of RSS feeds as an attack vector into question, Microsoft described steps they have taken to mitigate this.
Date: 2006-08-09
Tougher Crypto Seen In Ransomware
Early attempts to extort money from people victimized by viruses that cannot be defeated without a key have grown in sophistication, with tougher encryption being employed...
Date: 2006-07-26
Laptops Lag In Data Security
How many laptops containing "sensitive person data" have been stolen in the past few months...
Date: 2006-07-12
NSA Eyes Social Networking Sites
It was revealed last month that the National Security Agency has been tracking the phone calls of millions of Americans.
Date: 2006-06-12
StarOffice Sees Its First Virus
Researchers at antivirus firm Kaspersky have found a proof-of-concept virus for the StarOffice productivity suite floating in the wild.
Date: 2006-05-31
Blue Frog Killed By Spammers
The Israeli-based Blue Security firm had taken on spammers with its Blue Frog software, but the continued online attacks by those spammers has forced the company to shut down...
Date: 2006-05-17
Blue Frog Spam War Escalates
A Russian spammer claimed he possesses the email addresses of everyone using Blue Security's anti-spam Blue Frog software and threatened to spam members of that list continually unless they leave Blue Security...
Date: 2006-05-03
More Malware Entering Stealth Mode
Creators of destructive and malicious computer programs have been utilizing stealth technology in far greater numbers over the past three years.
Date: 2006-04-19
Symantec Launches IM Security Product
Symantec announced Monday the release of its enterprise instant messaging protection service, called the Symantec IM Manager 8.0. It enables organizations to control the use of public IM services and enterprise RTC platforms and manage compliance with legal and corporate governance policies.
Date: 2006-04-05
DNS Attack Threat May Be Overstated
The simplicity of how attackers can turn thousands of domain name servers against a target not only boggles the mind but constitutes a tremendous threat to Internet resources; however, the vulnerability may be more a matter of poorly configured machines.
Date: 2006-03-22
Rogue AntiSpyware Distributes Spyware
Rogue antispyware programs sometimes are the best products out there. They're not beholding to any other companies, they probably won't get sued, etc. Occasionally one comes along through causes as many problems as it solves. This time, it seems to be SpySweeper.
Date: 2006-03-08
Mac
OS X Security
Mac and Linux users aren't used to turning on the news and hearing about security
threats that affect us. The Linux stuff doesn't get reported because Linux is
too geeky, and the Mac threats have been generally absent because there haven't
been many.
Date: 2006-02-20
No
Free AntiVirus For Vista
Microsoft has said that it will not provide free antivirus protection for Windows
Vista, but instead sell it as a subscription service through Windows OneCare.
Date: 2006-02-01
New
WMF Vulnerabilities Found
Microsoft continues to have problems with its WMF handling. While the zero-day
problem was corrected, other problems have crept up around the very same program.
Microsoft released the fix last week but it looks like they've got some more work
to do. The problems involve two different functions being exploited...
Date: 2006-01-11
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