Barracuda Networks Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, today announced it has expanded authentication capabilities of its Barracuda Web Filter product line with Novell eDirectory, a popular identity management and policy control tool used by many Fortune 500 companies as well as educational organizations. This upgrade will enable the Barracuda Web Filter to perform transparent, single-sign-on authentication. Read the rest of this entry »
Re-install Windows every three months. Windows machines tend to develop major performance problems over time — so its probably a good idea to re-install the OS every couple of months. If you’ve got your own dedicated PC for gaming, then this shouldn’t be a big deal. Re-installs don’t take all that long, and they’ll give you a chance to cut down on the number of games installed on your hard drive. Read the rest of this entry »
Global security provider Symantec has launched Norton Smartphone Security, a product that, the company states, is the first consumer mobile security offering to provide a security solution for both Windows and Symbian OS run mobile phones. The solution is intended to give users a safeguard against the raft of threats and attacks aimed at mobiles.Con Mallon the director of product marketing EMEA for Symantec said: “Smartphones are allowing consumers the freedom to communicate and access important information anytime, anywhere, making them more attractive than ever. However, with a rising number of users comes an increase in potential threats from cyber criminals.”
The solution comes complete with firewall and anti-spam for SMS as well as Norton’s antivirus technology. The solution draws on the same core technologies that can be found within Norton’s PC products. These technologies are then applied in the context of the Windows or Symbian operating systems together with the smartphone’s specific usage.
Similar to Norton antivirus, it features auto-protect as well as scan after card insertion. According to the company, this functionality protects phones against viruses, worms and mobile spyware. The firewall provides real time intrusion prevention and controls both in and out bound network traffic on the mobile device. This blocks hackers, other intrusions and denial of service attacks. The product also blocks short text and multimedia messages from unwanted senders by automatically filtering these spam messages to a separate spam folder.
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IDC has noted that surfing the Web remains a very dangerous endeavor as criminal hackers and bot herders increasingly corrupt websites, planting Web browser-based attacks used to steal personal information or plant malware on an unsuspecting public.And according to Andrew McKee from security vendor Check Point, browser security should be seen as an essential and front line part of a computer users protection arsenal. Read the rest of this entry »
Security Scanning with AVG Free
A full scan on my standard clean test system took 30 minutes when set to Fast priority and closer to 45 at Automatic. The fast mode runs at about the same speed as Webroot AntiVirus with AntiSpyware and Firewall (WAVASF) and noticeably faster than Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus 5.5. By contrast, avast! antivirus 4.8 Home Edition, AVG’s main free competitor, scanned the same system in under 10 minutes. Do keep in mind that these figures are intended for relative comparison only. The products will probably work faster on your own system than on the resource-limited virtual machine I use for testing. Read the rest of this entry »
Security researchers around the world are giving a tongue-in-cheek salute to the 30th anniversary of the first spam message.
Gary Theurk, an employee at Digital Equipment Company, sent a message on Arpanet to hundreds of fellow users on 1 May 1978. Read the rest of this entry »
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Security software giant Symantec yesterday reported year end revenue ahead of expectations. In a statement, Symantec CEO John Thompson called the company’s current offerings "the strongest product portfolio we’ve had in years."
BitDefender®, a global provider of award-winning antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today that BitDefender antivirus analysts have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of Byzantine complexity. The discovery came with the identification of spam e-mails which claim to contain links to videos. When users try to click and see the video, they are instead prompted to download a "media player.” Read the rest of this entry »
Security software firms have a new weapon in their battle against computer viruses, but it has a significant downside: it could block some legitimate programs as well.
Still, even those whose software has been unjustly accused by the new technology say it could be the industry’s best shot to stem the rising tide of viruses and worms.
In the old days — two years ago — each new computer virus would be analyzed and then blocked by the security software firms, which used a virus "signature" that was the malicious software equivalent of a person’s fingerprint. When the virus tried to gain entry to a protected PC, it was blocked. Read the rest of this entry »
Avira has released version 8 of its Antivir antivirus software on Wednesday, as both a Premium Edition and a free Personal Edition. The company has also updated its Internet Security Suite. In addition to the re-worked user interface, the new version also has a modular scan engine which works faster than the old version. It is also easier to add extensions to the new version.
The new scan engine is supposed to be capable of a 20 per cent higher throughput than the one in the previous version. The paid versions also include a Webguard that filters internet traffic for malicious content, identifying and blocking phishing and malware sites. Read the rest of this entry »