Archive for the ‘Security News’ Category
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Sometimes even the most protective phalanx of antivirus, antispyware and antiphishing programs is not enough to shield a computer from online dangers. Check Point Software's ZoneAlarm ForceField provides an extra defensive layer by cloning your Web browser to catch dangerous software before any damage can be done.
Rather than providing a ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Since Vista's release last year, Microsoft has hailed the operating system's security features. Some have even claimed the operating systems would make anti-virus software obsolete.
PC Tools took that opportunity to examine Microsoft’s claims, and conducted research over six months with 1.5 million of its customers using its ThreatFire Anti-Virus ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
A new contest running at the DefCon hacker conference this year (held in Las Vegas in August) is already stirring up controversy. It will challenge hackers to design malware that can't be detected by anti-virus programs such as ones offered by Symantec and McAfee.
The contest is dubbed Race to Zero, ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in cyberspace. In real life social situations, your identity cannot easily be stolen because you are identified by your appearance, your voice, your manner of speech, your habits and so on. Anyone who knows you should be able to tell at once whether ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Anyone who downloaded the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 needs to run an anti-spyware and anti-virus scan, then disable the pack for now. Mozilla warned yesterday that all versions of that language pack downloaded from its servers since Feb. 18, 2008, were infected with pop-up ad serving software.
Window Snyder, ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Yahoo and McAfee announced a partnership Tuesday under which potentially unsafe Web sites appearing in Yahoo search results will be flagged as risky.
The deal, an exclusive for Yahoo, uses McAfee SiteAdvisor technology to label a variety of potentially dangerous Web sites with red warning text and links to McAfee information ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Zango's high-profile lawsuit against anti-spyware company Kaspersky Lab is "akin to a cat burglar suing the alarm company," Kaspersky's law firm argued to a federal appellate court.
In papers filed this week with the 9th Circuit, Kaspersky said that Zango has no grounds to sue the security company for removing Zango's ...
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