AOL, the web division of Time Warner group has launched free AOL Internet Security Central (safety.aol.com), offering a suite of free safety and security tools...
Columbia, Maryland based Sourcefire has acquired open source anti-virus project ClamAV. Sourcefire, which also owns open source network intrusion detection tool Snort, however, did not disclose...
Security company McAfee has asked users of Yahoo instant messenger to keep from webcam invites from unknown sources after a vulnerability in the platform was discovered...
Microsoft has said it has released two updates for Windows Vista. The updates fixes a number of graphics problems, spooler issues, and display driver errors...
The ten most prevalent malware threats causing problems for computers around the world in the month of July 2007 has been revealed with drive-by downloads remaining as cybercriminals’ favourite web threats...
Japanese anti-virus company Trend Micro has launched SecureCloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) security platform that has new protection against botnets...
As security evolves to be more of an enabler than inhibitor, solutions must be readily available to protect consumers and businesses at every connection, giving them confidence that their information and interactions are protected everywhere they go. Symantec has introduced its latest endpoint protection solution to address such existing and emerging concerns...
Google’;s shopping spree is continuing. The latest to join Google’s fold is email anti-spam company Postini which it acquired for USD625 million in cash...
Mobile phones have evolved over the years from being just a device to make a call when on-the-go to being the center of communication with its popular SMS (short messaging service), mobile email and MMS (multi-media messaging service) capabilities. However, with such a wide acceptance of such services comes the rising concern of data security...
Security companies are up in arms against testing organisations according to whom the current anti-virus products are not up to mark and never help in keeping viruses at bay...
Symantec Corporation has apologised to the Chinese users of its Norton Anti-Virus for a wrong update. It has also decided to compensate the users whose computers crashed following the faulty update.
The world’s biggest search engine and the fastest growing IT company Google has urged the US government to fight the rise of global Internet censorship...
Two weeks after launching the Safari web browser for Windows, Apple has once again fixed new holes in its web browser. Apple launched a new security update to fix the hole....
Open source solutions company, Red Hat and security company Symantec have launched secure server bundles targeted at the small and medium-sized businesses.
The number of online crime complaints in the US has just crossed one million mark. The Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) says that it received its 1 millionth complaint last week...
