Recently Symantec announced it will buy GuardianEdge Technologies and PGP Corporation. Both companies have a strong background in developing encryption software and very good customers (reaching almost to 100% of Fortune 100).  Acquiring both companies, Symantec plans to expand its solutions to protect confidential information and secure customer’s data. Customers depend on having encryption software as part of a regulatory [...]

On their blog, Google posted information about an attack that targeted potentially tens of thousands of users who downloaded Vietnamese keyboard language software. The main payload of the malware was to spy and to participate in distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against various blogs that containing political articles. One way to survive those DDOS attacks is to use our [...]

Today BitDefender had a huge false positive, when the 64bit version managed to detect many system files and Microsoft Office executables as Trojan.FakeAlert.5. If that isn’t enough, there are reports that even it’s own files are detected. The official answer is: “The problem is only affecting users of the x64 versions of BitDefender. A fix will be delivered via automatic updates as [...]

Trusteer announced the launch of a service that will allow banks to remotely investigate their customers’ computers if it is suspected the PC has been hacked. The service named Flashlight enables banks’ security experts to quickly identify what types of malicious software programs customers are encountering in order to build better defenses, said Mickey Boodaei, Trusteer’s CEO. Flashlight detects malicious [...]

Product Description : Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy [...]