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August once again turned out to be “dead season” for virus epidemics in 2007. Since August 2003, when the Lovesan worm caused the biggest epidemic in history, the …

Security professionals have come to realize that ensuring data security and integrity is critical to business continuity and risk mitigation. However, with increasing amounts …

Panda Security informs that almost 28 percent of computers with installed protection scanned at the Infected or Not website (http://www.infectedornot.com) last week were …

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that the United States District Court of Washington ruled in favor of Kaspersky Lab, …

Shoulder-surfing – using direct observation techniques, such as looking over someone’s shoulder, to get passwords, PINs and other sensitive personal information …

The most important malware samples analyzed by PandaLabs this week are the MSNHorn.A and Nugache.M worms, and the Legmir.ASG Trojan. MSNHorn.A spreads through MSN Messenger by …

Sophos is warning internet users about the latest disguise being used by malware authors in their attempt to infect people’s PCs – an email claiming to point to …

Computer security has recently imported a lot of ideas from economics, psychology and sociology, leading to fresh insights and new tools. I will describe one thread of …

A design issue exists in the IPv6 protocol’s handling of type 0 routing headers. Depending on network topology and capacity, the reception of specially crafted IPv6 …

VMware announced an agreement with General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, to develop a complete turn-key High-Assurance Platform workstation using …

SMEs face a different set of security challenges than enterprises and must adapt security policies and practices accordingly to avoid costly intrusions and that can cripple or …