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Keep Clear of Craigslist Scams

Given everything from the "Craigslist killer" to Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal's campaign against the site to the escalating battle...

Why antivirus software is slow

Even a bad AV technology can be valuable, because protection against, say, 30 percent of all threats is still a lot better than protection against 0...

Why most antivirus doesn’t work (well)

Almost everybody runs AV, or at least they think they do. On Windows, over 90 percent of all people are running AV, and the number of people who...

On the Offensive: The Power of Hosted Email Security WHITE PAPER

As email volume increases, so does the number of threats and viruses. To counter the ever-evolving forms of spam, spyware and phishing attacks,...

Microsoft delivers huge Windows security update

Microsoft today shipped a record 13 security updates that patched dozens of vulnerabilities in Windows.

Researchers warn of likely attacks against Windows, PowerPoint

Some of the bugs Microsoft patched today will be exploited by hackers almost immediately, security researchers predicted.

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Free

You can't depend on just one program to protect you from rootkits, Trojans, viruses, worms, and other malicious code. The job is too important and...

Root Access Risk Control for the Enterprise WHITE PAPER

Compliance efforts and security concerns have driven businesses to make substantial investments in threat control. In this paper, EMA analysts...

PC Maintenance: What Tasks When?

Ruption18 asked the Answer Line forum what regular chores will keep his PC healthy.

The Latest BlackBerry Spyware Scare: Don't Worry, Yet

Here we go again. Another BlackBerry security scare, in which some "noble" researcher explains to all of us blissfully-unaware BlackBerry users that...

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Adobe apologizes for 16-month-old Flash bug

Adobe apologized over the weekend for letting a 16-month-old bug in Flash Player languish without a patch, even though it updated the popular plug-in...

Building a Secure and Compliant Windows Desktop WHITE PAPER

While removing administrator rights from end users may be the Holy Grail of desktop security, doing so can have an impact on what end users need to...

ShmooCon: Web app storage open to attack

New forms of off-line client-side storage, such as those specified by the emerging HTML 5 set of standards, could open entirely new kinds of attacks...

ShmooCon: Inside FarmVille's Sinister Underbelly

You love Facebook apps like FarmVille and Mafia Wars and think they're perfectly safe, right? Think again.

Mozilla confirms infected Firefox add-ons slipped through security

Mozilla confirmed that it had failed to detect malware in a pair of Firefox add-ons, which may have infected up to 4,600 users.

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