Safety advice to protect connected devices
If you were one of the millions of people who received tech gifts during the holidays, beware. Computer and cybercrimes have risen by more than 22% according to the most …
Data breach notifications in Europe
Recent high profile incidents of personal data loss in Europe have prompted wide discussion about the level of security applied to personal information shared, processed, …
Adobe changes Flash Player feature to prevent user tracking
In the last few years, Adobe has realized that their products will have no future if they don’t step up the security aspect, and so they started doing things like …
Waledac botnet wakes up after 7 days of sleep
Waledac appeared in a new version in the last days of 2010, sending out big amounts of New Year related spam messages. It then stopped spamming in the evening of January 4th, …
REMnux: Linux distribution for reverse-engineering malware
REMnux is a lightweight Linux distribution for assisting malware analysts in reverse-engineering malicious software. REMnux is designed for running services that are useful to …
Security professionals focus on cloud computing skills
Information security professionals may be focusing on familiar territory rather than new paradigms when it comes to skilling up for the cloud, suggest early survey results …
Raising the security bar: Know and fine-tune your IPS
A long time ago, people thought that having a firewall in place would protect their systems and networks from any and every outside attack. And for a very short while, they …
Free safe web browser for iPhone, iPad and iPod
Blue Coat Systems introduced the K9 Web Protection Browser for iOS, a free, downloadable, family-safe Web browser for Apple iPads, iPhones and Web-enabled iPod Touch devices. …
McAfee provides unified endpoint management
McAfee released Enterprise Mobility Management 9.5 which includes integration with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform, providing customers with unified management of …
SAINT Professional for Mac OS X released
SAINT Professional 7.6 introduces a native Mac OS X installer providing the industry’s first integrated security assessment tool for the Apple community with …
Online security tips for avoiding malware
Every month hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting computer users are faced by the inconveniences, complications and data loss that can come with Trojan horses, worms and email …
Spam increases 45% this week
Spam levels started bouncing back this week after a significant decrease in the fourth quarter. December’s daily average for spam was around 30% less than in September; …