A while back I participated in a new series on TechTarget's SearchWindowsSecurity.com web site called the Windows Security Clinic. The first one was a clinic to determine if a system ... Read More

The era of purchases and acquisitions continues. Trend Micro recently announced the purchase of Kelkea, an IP filtering company. This week, Computer Associates announced that they will be acquiring Tiny ... Read More

Windows XP has a tool which can be very useful in isolating and troubleshooting issues. The Network Diagnostics tools performs a number of scans of the system and reports back ... Read More

It is hard to be all things at once. Hybrid network security appliances that roll a firewall in with an IDS, antivirus and anti-spam tend to do a fair job ... Read More

There is a fairly steady stream of vulnerabilities found and patched on operating systems and applications, particularly those from Microsoft. Often malware writers target Microsoft vulnerabilities to create attacks and ... Read More

With Windows XP SP2, Microsoft finally enabled the firewall by default rather than relying on the user to A) realize they should have a firewall installed and B) figure out ... Read More

To add to the deluge of patches issued from Microsoft yesterday, they have also re-issued Security Bulletin MS05-019 (Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP Could Allow Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service). ... Read More

Yesterday, Microsoft released their Security Bulletins for the month of June. There were 3 ranked Critical, 4 Important and 3 Moderate according to Microsoft. The 10 Security Bulletins fix a ... Read More

According to computer security columnist Scott Bradner, it poses an inherent conflict of interest for Microsoft to be getting into the "anti" business. Many feel that the reason spyware, spam, ... Read More

DriveShield+ from Centurion Technologies provides an effective means of defense against virtually any malicious computer threat. It is a somewhat extreme solution and it requires some changes to how you ... Read More

At Gartner's IT Security Summit last Friday, Richard Stiennon, director of threat research at anti-spyware software vendor Webroot, made some predictions about the evolution of the spyware threat. One of ... Read More

There have been attacks on Bluetooth wireless devices in the past, most notably the Cabir worm. However, previous attacks have targeted Bluetooth devices that did not have security enabled. A ... Read More

According to security firm Secunia, the latest version of the popular Firefox web browser is vulnerable to a 7-year old flaw which was found to plague virtually every web browser ... Read More

In the past year, malware has not shown any signs of slowing down. The Netsky / Bagle / MyDoom wars that began in early 2004 set new records for how ... Read More

Anti-spyware programs do a fair job of detecting and removing known spyware threats. However, none of them is perfect and there are spyware and browser hijackers which are more tenacious ... Read More

A recent study shows that a vast majority of U.S. residents who use the Internet are clueless about some of the basic threats that face them. The University of Pennsylvania's ... Read More