February 5, 2010 - Microsoft Office 2010 will, by default, opt in to DEP (Data Execution Prevention), a feature Read more

February 5, 2010 - Dion Blazakis provided me with a formal paper on the techniques he revealed yesterday to bypass ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) and DEP (Data Execution Prevention) in Windows. Read more

February 4, 2010 - New attack techniques have proven capable of penetrating the state of the art in Windows systemic defenses, specifically DEP (Data Execution Prevention) and ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization). A demonstration was made Read more

February 4, 2010 - Yesterday's roundup article Lab Testing Antivirus Software triggered two interesting reactions. I got an e-mail message from IObit stating that "IObit Security 360 is an anti-malware application, not an Read more

February 3, 2010 - Microsoft has disclosed a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that can allow an attacker to cause local files on the system to be displayed as HTML.Technically, all versions of IE are affected, Read more

February 2, 2010 - Featuring a new name and a refreshed the user interface, McAfee's latest antivirus app, McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2010, offers Read more

January 30, 2010 - Google has announced a number of security enhancements that are being implemented in Chrome. Some have already been implemented in other browsers, including Firefox and IE and in significant add-ons like Read more

January 30, 2010 - Not that long after a Google employee running Internet Explorer 6 was hacked, creating an international incident, Google has announced that they will begin withdrawing support for IE6 in their Read more

January 27, 2010 - If you're a fan of avast! Free antivirus you can know get the virus and malware protection Read more

January 27, 2010 - The Tools-Internet Options dialog box in Internet Explorer has a wealth of important settings in it, some which affect the system outside of Internet Explorer. This dialog box is also available as Read more

January 27, 2010 - A report in Computerworld describes how an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer could allow an attacker to read arbitrary files on the user's computer.Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina, a security consultant with Read more

January 25, 2010 - Inspired by Jack Schofield (by way of Ed Bott on Twitter), I opened up Process Explorer on my own system to examine the DEP status of programs running on my Read more

January 25, 2010 - A consortium of Australian ISPs is preparing a voluntary code for handling customers whose computers have been turned into bots in a botnet.The draft plan calls on the ISP, after identifying Read more

January 22, 2010 - Say you're bringing your notebook through airport security in the US. Can the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) personnel copy your hard disk and/or search the data on it?No, says Blogger Bob Read more

January 22, 2010 - Now available for all users, the new avast! Free Antivirus 5.0 sports a completely revamped, easier-to-use Read more

January 21, 2010 - A cumulative update for Internet Explorer from Microsoft fixes the infamous vulnerability in the browser used recently to attack Google and other major companies. 7 other IE vulnerabilities were also fixed, Read more

January 21, 2010 - Web site defacements have been in the news lately and site owners are blaming their vendors.The first one came on January 12 when Baidu, the top search engine in China (especially if Read more

January 20, 2010 - Microsoft has announced that tomorrow, Thursday January 21, they will release an out-of-band update to Windows and Internet Explorer to fix the vulnerability that was exploited in the infamous Aurora attacks. Read more

January 18, 2010 - In their weekly podcast, Ryan Naraine and Dennis Fisher of Kaspersky's Threatpost speculate that the political pressure surrounding the IE 0-day is such that Microsoft will issue an emergency patch.This makes Read more

January 18, 2010 - Researcher Dino Dai Zovi says he has moved the Aurora exploit to the next level.On Twitter, he stated: "And now my Aurora exploit works on IE7 on Vista as well Read more