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SonicWALL licensing snafu short-circuits protection

The snafu affected enterise users of SonicWALL UTM Firewall, Email Security, Content Security appliances and meant that content filter, intrusion prevention and antivirus protection for some of its users were temporarily...

Beware of phishing attacks this holiday season

The holiday season is a time when spam mails not only flood inboxes with special offers and discounts, but also make merry by phishing for confidential information. With commercial online activity seeing an upturn, the threat...

Norton AntiVirus Begone!

Reader Thom Gifford has lost faith in a utility and would like to bid it a not-so-fond adieu. He writes: How the heck do you get rid of Norton AntiVirus? This thing crashes my MacBook regularly and makes it slow down worse than...

Latest VB100 malware test brings good news

The latest VB100 malware test from Virus Bulletin has proved good news for security vendors, all but two of which passed the latest edition of the noted antivirus test. The December test focused on products for the 64-bit...

From blacklisting to whitelisting

Antivirus software is not dead; it is rather undergoing a game-changing transformation. It has to. After all, the current model of detecting viruses through blacklisting simply cannot keep pace with the volume of malware...

Beware of Koobface the social worm

No, it's not the villain in the latest slasher movie - Koobface is a social networking worm affecting MySpace and Facebook. But like Jason and Freddie, Koobface refuses to die. PC Tools' ThreatFire research operation is...

SMBs Do Too Little to Protect Data: Survey

SMBs are particularly susceptible to data loss, and many are not adequately prepared to protect important information, a survey commissioned by software company Symantec finds. An independent study commissioned by Cupertino,...

Cyber criminals create $276 mn-worth Internet underground economy

Bangalore, Dec 3 (IANS) The burgeoning growth of e-commerce has spawned an online underground economy where cyber-criminals thrive by siphoning off goods and services worth millions of dollars with credit card information, a...

Transition: Richardson at Commerce

The Washington Post writes up today’s expected announcement of Bill Richardson as Commerce secretary. “The job will add to an already lengthy Washington résumé for Richardson that includes stints as secretary of energy and U.S....

Cybercriminals Are Shopping for Holiday Steals

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Going online instead of going to the mall can be a convenient and cheaper way to get the holiday shopping done. But it can have a downside. Cybercriminals tend to come out in force around peak shopping times....

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