October 4, 2011 - I am so excited about McAfee’s latest product – I have just been dying to tell you all about it! Well, McAfee now has McAfee All-Access (www.mcafee.com/allaccess) and say it’s a great option to keep all of your stuff and (continue reading...) Read more
August 2, 2011 - A recent poll revealed that 54% of U.S. consumers said the theft of their personal or financial information worried them more than losing their job or not having healthcare for their family members. (continue reading...) Read more
July 8, 2011 - …not, on this occasion, the classic Blackhat "It's your fault that we've hacked your server, infected you with a virus, and broadcast your credit card details and gaming credentials to anyone one who cares to access the torrent" self-justification. (Which (continue reading...) Read more
May 18, 2011 - Well, the EICAR conference earlier this month was in Krems, in Austria, where I hear that they're not averse to the occasional brandy, but I was actually perfectly sober when I delivered my paper on Security Software (continue reading...) Read more
February 5, 2010 - Microsoft Office 2010 will, by default, opt in to DEP (Data Execution Prevention), a feature (continue reading...) 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. (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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, (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) Read more
January 27, 2010 - If you're a fan of avast! Free antivirus you can know get the virus and malware protection (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) Read more
January 22, 2010 - Now available for all users, the new avast! Free Antivirus 5.0 sports a completely revamped, easier-to-use (continue reading...) 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, (continue reading...) Read more