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New security products underperform, says ICSA

Many security products simply do not work as advertised, or at least need a lot of tinkering to make them work, a report from the respected ICSA Lab has found. Drawing on twenty years of product certification testing across a range of security product ...

From JOHN E. DUNN, NetworkWorld,  17 Nov 2009

Yahoo jobs site in SQL attack worry

Yahoo raced last Thursday to close a potentially serious vulnerability that could have exposed customer data from its online jobs website, a security company has revealed. According to Israeli security company Imperva, which discovered the security ...

From JOHN E. DUNN, NetworkWorld,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Yahoo!

Panda launches free 'cloud' antivirus scanner

Cloud Antivirus 1.0 works differently to a conventional signature scanner, a type of product the company will continue to sell from its main website. Offering no-cost downloads from a dedicated website, the new software holds a minimum number ...

From JOHN E. DUNN, NetworkWorld,  11 Nov 2009

Spoof Apple Trojan upsets Symantec

Symantec has discovered a file-deleting 'Trojan' targeting Mac users. But is it really a piece of malware or a valid but hazardous example of online art? The company's malware team this week put out a stark warning about a bogus Apple Mac space ...

From JOHN E. DUNN, NetworkWorld,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Symantec

Worms back at top of Microsoft threat list

Long dismissed as a security scare of the past, Internet worms appear to have made a strong comeback, jumping to take the top two places on Microsoft's latest threat list. According to Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report (SIR) Volume 7, ...

From JOHN E. DUNN, NetworkWorld,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Firewall upgrade tames nasty Flash games

The nuisance posed by Flash-based games and Internet viral advertising is now so significant that security vendor SmoothWall has decided to offer a web filter capable of 'intelligently' blocking the application. Designed to upgrade the feature set of ...

From JOHN E. DUNN, NetworkWorld,  3 Nov 2009

Cisco reinvents best-selling ISR router

Recession or not, Cisco will this week hit its prospective customers with a brand new router platform, the Integrated Services Router (ISR) G2. What does it do? Almost everything a remote or branch office could possible want, Cisco says. Despite its ...

From JOHN E. DUNN, NetworkWorld,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Intel

Fake antivirus attacks PCs with ransom demand

The Fake antivirus phenomenon has taken an unpleasant turn with the discovery of a Windows program that not only cons users into buying an unnecessary license but appears to lock files and applications on the victim's PC. According to security company ...

From JOHN E. DUNN, NetworkWorld,  16 Oct 2009

Fake antivirus overwhelming scanners

Fake antivirus programs are multiplying at such a rate they could start to overwhelm the detection capabilities of signature-based scanners, the latest figures from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) have hinted. Rogue or bogus programs passing ...

From JOHN E. DUNN, NetworkWorld,  2 Oct 2009

Cheapskate SMBs dodge buying security software

Many UK SMBs probably spend as much re-filling the communal water cooler as they do buying security software, a global survey of the sector has found. If that sounds outlandish, consider the extraordinary figures uncovered by security software company ...

From JOHN E. DUNN, NetworkWorld,  30 Sep 2009

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