More than 20 000 computers were infected in one day by a sophisticated new computer virus unleashed by a Vietnamese programmer, the first of its kind in the country, an Internet security official said on Tuesday. The "Gai Xinh" (Pretty Girl)...

China's computer manufacturers must install operating software before their goods leave the factory gates, the latest effort to address the thorny issue of piracy before President Hu Jintao visits the United States. The order was given...

McAfee has jazzed up its Web site with a new online portal designed to help users research a wide range of security problems. Called the McAfee Threat Center, the portal was launched Monday as part of a redesign of the McAfee.com Web site...

In an effort to boost the level of data security on portable computers, cell phones and other gadgets, IBM Corp. is unveiling a method for injecting encryption capabilities into the heart of the machines' circuitry.There are multiple...

Security firm McAfee has put out a request for beta testers to trial the latest version of its Secure Content Management Appliances application. The suite includes three products: Secure Messaging Gateway, providing secure content management for SMTP...

McAfee, Inc., has acquired web safety innovator SiteAdvisor Inc. The addition of SiteAdvisor's database of tested and rated web sites to McAfee's range of solutions and services is expected to help redefine the way consumers surf the Internet...

Several web pages -mainly with pornographic or illegal content- are downloading spyware programs onto the computers of visitors to the sites without their consent. These web pages are designed to exploit different software vulnerabilities...

Bill Robbins is senior vice president of the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) geography, responsible for driving Symantec’s sales and business development across more than 17 countries. Robbins was previously vice president...

CipherTrust, Inc., has unveiled PhishRegistry.org, a free, online resource where legitimate organisations may register their Websites and receive notifications of online fraud attempts. This site aims to safeguard organisations and...

Intrusion prevention and security risk management company McAfee, Inc., (McAfee) today announced its India centre would be focusing on engineering ownership of many products in India and increasing headcount significantly...

Some 87 percent of computer software in the Indonesia market in 2005 was pirated, Microsoft Indonesia's Irwan Tirtariyadi said, citing a study from the Business Software Alliance, an organisation representing manufacturers. Software piracy is costing the Indonesian...

A Unisys Corp-sponsored survey of 1,000 households has shown that two out of three consumers believe their banks should be using biometric technologies, such as fingerprint and iris recognition, to combat identity theft ahead of security tokens or smart cards...

New research by three Netherlands-based researchers shows that RFID tags can carry malware and propagate via databases along the supply. The researchers were able to execute an SQL injection attack against an Oracle database and Apache...

The security appliance server market in Asia/Pacific in 2005 amounted to USD 549 million, a 39% YOY growth. Unified threat management (UTM)appliances are increasingly being adopted by customers, especially those who are looking for security...

Barclays Bank plc, part of the UK-based financial services group Barclays and one of Europe's largest retail banks, has launched the RSA Transaction Monitoring solution to protect its online banking users. The solution authenticates users...

Small and medium businesses in Singapore are expected to spend USD 46 million on IT security this year, up 20% from last year. Investments in network firewall/VPN will account for close to a...

With the need for government regulation compliance getting tighter and the money laundering business getting smarter, SAS has unveiled a new version of SAS Anti-Money Laundering, which the company claims will be a shot in the arm for transparency...

Symantec has unveiled a behavior-based intrusion prevention solution for multi-layered protection of servers and critical clients running on Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms. Symantec Critical System Protection 5.0 uses a unique combination...

Adobe on Tuesday issued a security advisory urging all Macromedia Flash users to upgrade to version 8.0.24.0. The company says it has identified "critical vulnerabilities" in Flash Player that could lead to a full system compromise...

CipherTrust has unveiled a free software plug-in for e-mail clients that thwarts spam, phishing and fraud, while promising to safeguard legitimate mail. the TrustedSource Toolbar ushers monitoring, alerting and reporting capabilities to...