September 16, 2011 - Hello, Today we published the September Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We (continue reading...) Read more
September 16, 2011 - On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled more details about the future Windows 8 operating system at the BUILD developer conference in Anaheim, California and we could not miss out on this event! Avast has always been able to fully operate (continue reading...) Read more
September 15, 2011 - This month, Microsoft issued 5 security bulletins covering 15 vulnerabilities in Excel and Windows. These updates are considered important rather than critical, as by the time of the patch there was no (continue reading...) Read more
September 15, 2011 - Microsoft has designed a new user interface for Windows 8, with an emphasis on bright colours and friendliness. Personally, the interface (dubbed "Metro") reminds me of a child's toy. One of (continue reading...) Read more
September 14, 2011 - This week my guest for the podcast was Mike Wood, a Senior Threat Researcher at SophosLabs in Vancouver, Canada. Mike is our expert on digital (continue reading...) Read more
September 14, 2011 - Microsoft will ship Windows 8 with built-in anti-virus software. That's the big news that is no doubt being discussed furtively at the watercoolers of computer security companies around the world today. What will it mean to them? A quick glance at (continue reading...) Read more
September 14, 2011 - We've just been hit with a double-barrelled Patch Tuesday, with both Microsoft and Adobe publishing security updates. Despite its weekly-sounding name, Patch Tuesday happens once a (continue reading...) Read more
September 13, 2011 - Paul Henry, Security and Forensics Analyst for Lumension, discusses the impact of the September 2011 Patch Tuesday releases. Read more
September 13, 2011 - September’s Patch Tuesday from Microsoft is rather light with only 5 Bulletins – none of which are critical. MS11-070 Elevation of Privilege, Vulnerability in WINS MS11-070 Remote Code Execution, DLL Linking MS11-072 (continue reading...) Read more
September 13, 2011 - In an effort to protect customers, last week we released Security Advisory 2607712 along with a non-security update to add (continue reading...) Read more
September 9, 2011 - For those who have not visited our AVAST office in Prague, I need to explain that we are located south of the historic center in a business-like area with the standard attire: modern office buildings, couple of ‘skyscrapers’ (well, a (continue reading...) Read more
September 8, 2011 - Update Please note that it is not only Microsoft Patch Tuesday, but Adobe is also preparing a patch release for Tuesday which will address critical flaws in Adobe Reader 8,9 and 10 (continue reading...) Read more
September 8, 2011 - Hello everyone, As we do each month, we're providing advanced notification on the release of five Important security bulletins, addressing 15 vulnerabilities, to help protect customers using Microsoft Windows and Office. As usual, the bulletin release is (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - Microsoft has just released an update to security advisory 2607712 permanently moving all five of DigiNotar's root certificates to the (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - Today we’re updating Security Advisory 2607712, to announce that based on our investigation, we’ve deemed all DigiNotar certificates (continue reading...) Read more
September 4, 2011 - This blog post was updated Sept. 5, 2011 below. Microsoft’s investigation into the scope and impact of the DigiNotar compromise has continued over the holiday weekend. We’ve now confirmed that spoofed certificates for *.microsoft.com and *.windowsupdate.com are among those issued by (continue reading...) Read more
August 29, 2011 - Today we’re releasing Security Advisory 2607712, to address at least one fraudulent digital certificate issued by DigiNotar, a root certificate authority. DigiNotar has since revoked the digital certificate. This is not a Microsoft security vulnerability; however, the certificate potentially (continue reading...) Read more
August 17, 2011 - It has been 1,000 days since the Conficker worm first appeared on November 21, 2008. For the first two months after its initial appearance we received a trickle of reports through our ThreatSense.NET telemetry system. By January of (continue reading...) Read more
August 11, 2011 - Hello, Today we published the August Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded six questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released and the Malicious Software Removal Tool. There was one question that we were unable (continue reading...) Read more
August 10, 2011 - Hi everyone, Black Hat this year was really great. We spent a lot of time talking to people and getting new perspectives on the security landscape and of course, we announced the BlueHat (continue reading...) Read more