Symantec has released three security advisories concerning multiple vulnerabilities in Symantec products. The most serious could lead to unauthorized remote access and the running of arbitrary code on affected systems. ... Read More

Whether due to a false positive or a wrong cleaning option (see Clean, Quarantine, or Delete?), in the process of removing malware sometimes an innocent and necessary file gets deleted. ... Read More

Malware distributors will go to any length to get their criminal code in front of users. Monitoring Google Trends and using spamdexing to bubble links to the top of SERPs ... Read More

Criminals are lazy and phishing scams are the lowest hanging fruit of all, so it's not that surprising to see a phishing scam that cuts every corner imaginable. Even so, ... Read More

Improving user experience is an important aspect of website content delivery and advertising (which enables the vast majority of content on the Web to be offered free of charge). But ... Read More

An email hoax of sorts is circulating, warning that April 26th is "Virus Day". While the email alert is bogus, there's a small grain of truth that likely keeps it ... Read More

Mozilla has released multiple patches for Firefox security vulnerabilities. One of the flaws involves a Firefox header refresh problem that sounds similar to the issue raised here several months ago ... Read More

When it comes to selecting the best free antivirus software, the choices are too limited to leave any of the free antivirus products out. Here's a list of the best ... Read More

I'm all for being green and I take environmental reports seriously. But sometimes, you just have to look more closely at the claims being made. A recent report commissioned by ... Read More

Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro UK blogs about email leaks involving the UK Parliamentary Labour Party and some blogger named Derek Draper. Apparently, several email exchanges have, over the course ... Read More

Brian Krebs of Security Fix reports: "A massive glut in the number of credit and debit cards stolen in data breaches at financial institutions last year has flooded criminal underground ... Read More

For 24-hours beginning Tuesday, April 14 at 6:00 a.m. PDT, ZoneAlarm Internet Security will be available for $9.95. Typically the security suite retails for $49.95, so anyone wanting to get ... Read More

If the Conficker worm has had any impact, it's been to underscore how quickly misinformation can be spread. Barely a week after the 60 Minutes' April Fools' Conficker doomsday update ... Read More

Whether measured in terms of being the longest, the most inane, or having the worst grammar - a recent 419 scam wins across all categories. Or as Alex Eckelberry of ... Read More

Scammers are sending bogus email disguised as a Microsoft security alert, in a criminal attempt to trick users into purchasing a rogue scanner (aka scareware). The fraudulent email reads as ... Read More

Microsoft is warning of a newly discovered vulnerability in PowerPoint which enables attackers to drop malware onto susceptible systems. According to security researchers at Trend Micro, exploits of the zero ... Read More