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The recent release of Tenebril's SpyCatcher 3.5 packs several high-powered features. Its sophisticated detection engine requires less memory to scan a computer and its components, resulting in scans up to 300 percent faster than earlier versions and most competitive products. SpyCatcher brings more ...
Symantec announced earlier this week that it has been granted a new patent for antivirus technology by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent is for a system that enables detection of complex viruses, worms and spyware. The technology, "data driven detection of viruses," is employ...
In response to a pair of potentially dangerous security bugs, RealNetworks yesterday introduced new versions of its flagship RealPlayer software. The company has discovered twice in less than six months flaws that could allow an attacker to create fake video files to infiltrate a victim's computer.
Each morning, users open their e-mail boxes and discover solicitations for low-rate mortgages, prescription drugs, weight-loss programs, pornography and shady business transactions. Sorting through legitimate and illegitimate messages is a frustrating and time-consuming process. After years of unsuc...
In an attempt to cut down on the exponential growth of phishing scams, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, introduced a bill yesterday that defines the penalties for perpetrators. The Anti-Phishing Act of 2005 calls for fines of up to US$250,000 and jail terms of up to five years for people convicted of ...
Mobile security. It's an idea whose time has finally come, judging by the amount of interest at the recent RSA security conference in San Francisco. The show floor was abuzz with talk about securing both mobile devices and the increasingly mobile enterprise. But if you asked ten people to define mob...
With a little help from a lesser-known piece of malicious software code, the Glieder Trojan, a wave of Bagle computer worm variants spread successfully today, disabling and blocking antivirus and other security software and spreading in spam-like fashion. Security experts said as many as 15 Bagle va...
A new search technology by Webroot Software takes a proactive approach to protecting computer users from spyware. It uses bots to find spyware buried deep within distribution centers. Armed with the results of this robotic reconnaissance, Webroot is able to build in better defenses and alerts, makin...
In another attempt to slow the spread of computer viruses, the British government has set up a Web site that offers to alert citizens when serious Internet security problems are making the rounds. The IT Security Awareness for Everyone site will offer the alerts via e-mail or text message and will a...
As a judicial panel heard arguments this week on a scheme to fight the piracy of digital television broadcasts, a civil libertarian group in San Francisco launched a guerrilla program to undermine the plan. The scheme is the so-called "broadcast flag," a digital rights management (DRM) system for co...
A recent vulnerability found in the popular open-source database MySQL revealed a persistent problem for IT managers: password management among administrators. Most talk about password security traditionally centers around end users and the use of weak, easy-to-guess passwords. In companies where ad...
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today warned the public to avoid falling victim to an ongoing mass e-mail scheme wherein computer users receive unsolicited e-mails purportedly sent by the FBI. "These e-mails did not come from the FBI. Recipients of this or similar solicitations should know ...
HP announced a line of new routers it says will aid security at the network's edge and sell for half the price of offerings from Cisco and other networking rivals. The new ProCurve Networking products are the Secure Router 7000dl series and Access Controller Module software for the ProCurve Switch 5...
Caution: Click-through agreements may be hazardous to your rights of privacy and free speech. Those are the sentiments expressed in a white paper released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) as part of a campaign to raise consumer awareness of some of the dangerous terms found in End User Li...
Computer security, until now, was a matter of bolting on third-party hardware products or adding on software to screen out unauthorized users. Not so any more. Keyboard-bound passwords, smart cards and dongles are becoming a thing of the past. These staples of the old school of computer security are...
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