Final release of Windows Defender available for download
Final version of Windows Defender in English was just announced. The team behind the software has been working hard for over a year and fixed over 400 bugs in the areas of …
Anti-Phishing Working Group announces the Internet Crimeware Report
The Anti-Phishing Working Group has issued a joint report with the Department of Homeland Security and SRI International on the role of crimeware in enabling new forms of …
“Sentry At Home” now includes monitoring of MySpace chat
SearchHelp announced that, beginning this week, it will provide an important update to all users of its “Sentry At Home” Internet content filtering and blocking …
Application Security, Inc. extends product support for Oracle on Linux
Application Security, Inc. today announced Oracle on Linux support in AppRadar — the industry’s most comprehensive database activity monitoring and security …
Nominations open for tenth annual RSA Conference awards
RSA Conference 2007 today announced that the call for nominations for its tenth annual awards program is now open. The RSA Conference Awards recognize influential contributors …
Rapid7 to provide CISSP seminars to (ISC)2 certification candidates
Rapid7 announced a strategic alliance with the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc. (ISC)2 to provide the updated official (ISC)2 …
Symantec and McAfee should have prepared better for Microsoft Vista
IT security firm Sophos is recommending that system administrators ask their security vendors if they are capable of properly protecting them on the forthcoming 64-bit version …
eEye Digital Security introduces Blink Personal freeware
eEye Digital Security announced the release of Blink Personal, a free version of its award-winning Blink endpoint security technology, developed for non-commercial users. …
Survey shows a sharp rise in the cost of data breaches
PGP Corporation, Vontu and The Ponemon Institute released the 2006 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach. This benchmark analysis details the financial impact of data loss …
Fortify tracer improves the effectiveness of black box security testing
Fortify Software today announced the introduction of Fortify Tracer. The product provides code-level information so that black box security testers can: 1) Measure in a …
Weekly Report on Viruses and Intruders – Sinowal.CR and Briz.R. Trojans and Sohanat.U worm.
Sinowal.CR is designed to collect confidential information from the computers it infects, such as passwords and other data stored in Protected Storage, or from email clients …
Regain access to your computer with Elcomsoft System Recovery
Elcomsoft has released Elcomsoft System Recovery, a boot-disk application that makes it easy to access your computer’s Windows password settings. If you’re locked …