avast! CEO Vincent Steckler told Infosecurity this week that the new version of the free avast! anti-virus includes more capabilities such as behavioural detections at the same time as being faster and smaller. It can also wake up your computer in the night to do a virus scan before putting it back...
Understanding what goes on at the various secret service divisions such as MI5 and MI6, as well as GCHQ, has been helped with the news that Qosmos, a network intelligence specialist, will unveil an LI (lawful interception) edition of its ixMachine at Milipol in Paris next week.
Botnet controllers have been using cloud based systems such as the Google cloud platform as command and control nodes for infected PCs, said a researcher at Arbor Networks.
An unknown hacker - apparently protesting about terror deaths in Pakistan - has attacked the Durham Police website, forcing it to temporarily close.
Spam king Sanford Wallace has been ordered to pay US$710.7 million to social networking company Facebook following a federal court case. Wallace is said to have compromised Facebook accounts using phishing emails, and used them to send spam to other members.
It's taken a while, but the first real iPhone worm has appeared, although its payload appears to be relatively benign - unless that is, you dislike Rick Astley, the 1980s pop star from Newton le-Willows in Lancashire.
A physical pandemic such as the swine flu (H1N1) could swamp internet service providers serving residential users, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office – and the Department Of Homeland Security doesn't have a plan to deal with it.
The FBI has slammed poor security in financial institutions, after identifying a drastic rise in money being stolen from small to medium-sized businesses via spearphishing emails, it said in an intelligence note early this week.
Anti-virus companies are failing to get the joke after the release of a free arcade game for the Mac that deletes the users' files during play. Lose/Lose warns 'victims' that it is about to delete files on their hard drives before they begin playing, and it keeps its word.
Users of the Apple Mac have been warned to avoid a game called Lose/Lose which appears to include trojan programme code that deliberately deletes files on the users' hard drive.
Cisco, EMC - the parent company to RSA Security - and VMware have formed the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a collaboration designed to boost the adoption of virtualisation in the cloud.
Cellular specialist Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has unveiled a memory card for Android mobile phones that is claimed to make applications running on the host Android-compliant handset ultra-secure.
Malware authors are targeting those who missed the initial sign up for Google Wave, according to Symantec.
IT security vendor Symantec has uncovered a trojan that uses the Facebook social networking portal to communicate with a command and control (C&C) server
M86, the web and messaging security products vendor, has acquired business internet security specialist Finjan for an undisclosed sum of money. The move boosts M86's payroll to a shade more than 300 staff.
The Chip & PIN system pioneered by French banks in the 1980s - and rolled out across the UK and Europe in recent years - is to be extended to payment cards in Australia, Visa's operation there has announced.
The US has officially opened a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity in Arlington, Virginia.
Windows 7 owners are having problems installing their new operating system, especially over Vista, according to comments on Microsoft's support site.
The rapid rise in the number of swine flu cases - up by more than 50% in the UK in recent weeks and with similar infection rises in North America - has got some IT experts worried, with Gartner Group and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) both expressing concern over the internet's `last...
Tipping Point unveiled its latest intrusion prevention system this week, featuring an updated software / hardware combo that the company said is better at handling many tasks at once.