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Is Your PC Bot-Infested? Here's How to Tell

PC World - As fireworks boomed on the Fourth of July, thousands of compromised computers attacked U.S. government Web sites. A botnet of more than 200,000 computers, infected with a strain of 2004's MyDoom virus, attempted to deny legitimate access to ...

From ROBERT VAMOSI, ComputerWorld,  24 Aug 2009
Related Topics: PC World,  Federal Trade Commission,  White House

Verizon Business to Offer Risk-Based Security Service

Verizon Business announced on Wednesday a new risk-based suite of security tools that include cloud-and-premises-based services. Verizon's Next Generation Managed Security Services Platform is designed to compete with similar offerings from ArcSight ...

From ROBERT VAMOSI, NetworkWorld,  10 Aug 2009

Former Google VP Suggests User-Based Security

At the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday, former Google VP of Engineering Douglas Merrill gave the opening keynote presentation, and it wasn't a traditional security industry talk. The takeaway: Let users dictate enterprise security ...

From ROBERT VAMOSI, NetworkWorld,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Twitter: A Growing Security Minefield

PC World - In June, the world watched as tweets from the streets of Tehran flooded Twitter. Frequent Twitter users--and people who hadn't even heard of the microblogging service--were suddenly and simultaneously witnessing its potential. At the same ...

From ROBERT VAMOSI, ComputerWorld,  22 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  PC World,  Facebook Inc.,  Barack Obama,  Rick Sanchez

Researchers to Spotlight Darknets at Black Hat

In one of the first talks at this year's Black Hat USA, Billy Hoffman and Matt Wood, both security researchers at HP, plan to demonstrate a darknet designed to run entirely within a browser. Darknets, which allow decentralized, private peer-to-peer ...

From ROBERT VAMOSI, NetworkWorld,  15 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Billy Hoffman

Will Google's OS Make the Desktop Safe?

Google says that its forthcoming Chrome operating system will be so secure that "users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates." But Google's claim is being met with skepticism within the Internet security world. "I have serious ...

From ROBERT VAMOSI, NetworkWorld,  9 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Security Experts Visualize Botnets With Eye On Defense

Not all botnets are organized in the same way. That's the conclusion of a report from Damballa which seeks to categorize the dominate structures. It attempts to explain why certain types of blocking and filtering will work against some botnets, and not ...

From ROBERT VAMOSI, NetworkWorld,  26 Jun 2009

CheckPoint ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 8.0

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From ROBERT VAMOSI, ComputerWorld,  29 May 2009
Related Topics: PC World

G-Data Internet Security 2010

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From ROBERT VAMOSI, ComputerWorld,  29 May 2009
Related Topics: PC World,  Symantec,  IBM,  Oracle

Securing the Desktop

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From ROBERT VAMOSI, ComputerWorld,  29 May 2009
Related Topics: PC World,  IBM,  Oracle

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