Symantec issued an emergency update on Wednesday for Symantec Endpoint Protection after admins across the globe reported inbound Microsoft Excel email attachments were being detected as “Bloodhound.Exploit.459”.
Microsoft Sweden has launched a part-education, part-unashamed marketing campaign aimed at convincing spammers to retrain as direct marketers since, it says, spam is dying.
Intel has lifted the lid on its plans to deliver a “hardware enhanced” McAfee to tackle security from the data centre to desktops and mobile devices.
Symantec has released its Norton Antivirus and Norton 360 beta for Windows 8, claiming it will out-do Microsoft’s free but “basic” Defender anti-malware program, which Microsoft has seriously bolstered in Windows 8.
European data protection regulators may widen ongoing Google StreetView investigations in light of the US report which revealed that several Google engineers knew of plans to collect ‘payload’ data back in 2007.
Apple emailed a reminder to OS X developers to get a “Developer ID” to comply with Gatekeeper, its iOS-like anti-malware feature for the upcoming OS X Mountain Lion release.
No matter which way you slice the numbers, the sheer volume and variety of Windows malware makes running XP, Vista or 7 without antivirus far more risky than running any version of Mac OS X without antivirus.
A study commissioned by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICOI) has revealed that just 11 per cent of 230 discarded second hand hard drives contained personal information.
Facebook has teamed up with five security vendors to offer a range of free and subscription-based antivirus packages.
Microsoft has released a new version of Security Essentials offering free protection for non-pirated Windows XP, Vista and 7 PCs.
Google has raised its top payout to researchers who find serious flaws by a factor of six from $3,133.77 to $20,000, but to qualify for the highest payout researchers must find critical vulnerabilities affecting its production systems.
It’s been 20 days since Apple released its Flashback trojan removal tool in April 13 which removed a trojan that exploited an un-patched Java flaw, but there remains confusion as to how successful the multi-vendor removal campaign has been.
A Russian citizen has been charged with hacking online trading accounts and trading with himself in a scheme that cost his victims over US$1.4 million.
Dutch security outfit Fox-IT has slammed Microsoft for publicly releasing “restricted data” to support its “legal-technical” takedown of the Zeus botnet last month.
Despite Google’s best efforts to prevent malware entering its official market, Google Play, it let 15 data-stealing apps slip by, according to security vendor, McAfee.