Android Market riddled with bogus security products
The big brand Android security “charlatans” may inspire trust in their security products, but a test by German antivirus test lab, AV-Test, shows that only a handful live up to their name.
The big brand Android security “charlatans” may inspire trust in their security products, but a test by German antivirus test lab, AV-Test, shows that only a handful live up to their name.
Enterprise mobile device management vendor Good Technology will soon begin to offer RSA dongle two-factor authentication for Android and iOS mobile applications.
The European Parliament is considering a proposal that may criminalise the act of probing a web property for security flaws without explicit permission.
The maker of the Flashback Trojan for Mac OS X has tweaked the malware so that it can install without the user doing anything.
Software industry lobbyist the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has ranked Australia second out 24 nations for their suitability to cloud computing, and warns that Europe’s high-ranking is under threat due to its controversial proposed data protection overhaul.
Content distribution network provider Akamai has launched Kona Site Defender, a service to protect enterprise customers from Distributed Denial of Service attacks.
Mozilla has given all SSL certificate authorities (CA) until April 27 to destroy any subordinate CA certificates used to intercept traffic on a private network or face expulsion from its root certificate program.
Security vendor Veracode has released a tool for Mac OS X (but not Windows) that detects any iOS app that could be sending its makers a user's contact lists and calendar data.
Microsoft's latest Security Essentials update inadvertently warned Internet Explorer (IE) users off Google.com.
A Trojan discovered this month has already stolen upwards of 20,000 archives, Symantec is warning.
Only 16 per cent of organisations that faced a breach in 2011 detected it prior to a notification by a third party, according to an analysis of investigations conducted last year by Trustwave's SpiderLabs security team.
Adobe has released an important security feature for Flash Player on Firefox 4.0 and higher, delivering a public beta that sandboxes its processes in the browser on Windows.
Microsoft says the 41,000-strong Kelihos botnet it knocked out last year is still out of action, but clarified a new one is being developed using similar code.
Google has unveiled Bouncer, its answer to the growing threat of maliciously laced software available on the Android Market.
VeriSign, the generic top-level domain that administers .com, .net and org, was hacked several times in 2010, according to its financial filings.