Igor Muttik of McAfee's AVERT Labs writes about why there's so much new malware, discussing why this can adversely impact computer performance and providing tips for how legitimate software developers ... Read More

On Friday, President Obama is expected to release the results of a 60-day review of U.S. cyber security policy. The review was performed by Melissa Hathaway, interim White House cyber ... Read More

If your antivirus encounters an infected file, there are generally three options available: clean, quarantine, or delete. Choose the wrong option and a legitimate file could be lost. And if ... Read More

Kaspersky discovers pre-installed trojans on factory sealed netbook. SC Magazine reports.

I bought an iMac yesterday. Despite our collection of Apple iBooks, MacBooks, iPods, and iPhones, this is the first non-portable Apple computer I've purchased and the first time I've purchased ... Read More

On May 12th, Apple released a whopper of a security update - patching a total of 67 security vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and Safari. Still, they managed to leave ... Read More

I often get asked whether NoScript supports blacklisting. The short answer is yes, but the real question is why do you need it? Used properly (which happens to be the ... Read More

When a computer hard drive is damaged, or the operating system becomes unbootable, it's the potential for lost data that concerns most of us. And it's the little things that ... Read More

Scammers have a new angle for their phishing lure: claiming your webmail has exceeded capacity. If you reply to the scam email, you won't be upping your quota, but you ... Read More

When it comes to malware, there's one thing worse than hyping a virus purely for PR reasons. And that's spreading hype that a particular OS is somehow immune to threat. ... Read More

Ever since Oprah unintentionally DDoS'd KFC with a free coupon offer, there have been several pushing the notion that Oprah (or the government) needs to encourage everyone to use antivirus ... Read More

When antivirus vendors refer to heuristics, often it is merely a glorified form of signature detection. Given the huge volume of new malware constantly being discovered these days, anything involving ... Read More

A longstanding feud between NoScript and Adblock Plus has reached critical mass. NoScript is an extremely important security addon, one that I would argue is an absolute essential and is the ... Read More

Through easily guessed admin passwords and insecure handling of admin account credentials, Twitter has been the victim of some pretty easy to carry out hacks. One account that's been repeatedly ... Read More