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New generations of technology-savvy users and a growing wave of gadget-prone communication devices are making their way into the workplace, bringing with them new security …

The online shopping trend is growing by leaps and bounds. At the same time, e-commerce portals for managing customers and employee extranets are gaining increasing importance. …

Researchers from BitDefender have detected that social networks are the newest medium for Nigerian “4-1-9” scams. The scam has been put to use on the professional …

Microsoft released the fourth volume of its Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR). The report focuses on the second half of 2007 and uses data derived from a range of …

Yoggie Security Systems released the world’s first laptop embedded ExpressCard based mini-computer, designed to provide the most comprehensive Internet security. The …

ESET released SysInspector, a free comprehensive utility that examines various operating system elements, including running processes, registry content, startup items and …

Deviant Ollam works as a network engineer and security consultant but his strongest love has always been teaching. A supporter of First Amendment rights who believes that the …

The world’s athletes and hackers now share a common focus – the Beijing Olympics. Whilst the athletes have a legitimate reason to concentrate on the Games, …

IBM introduced several new services to help mid-sized businesses better manage risk and improve the security of their IT systems. IBM developed these services in response to …

Spam continues to plague computer users, with Sophos research revealing that 92.3 percent of all email was spam during the first quarter of 2008. Millions of new messages are …

From January to the end of March 2008, Sophos identified an average of more than 15,000 newly infected webpages each day.  Most worrying for computer users, is the fact …

AlgoSec unveiled the AlgoSec VPN Analyzer. For the first time, enterprises now can easily and automatically explore and understand their VPN policies to improve overall …