The Security Intelligence Report is a biannual report by Microsoft that analyzes past and present security trends. It focuses on “software vulnerabilities, software vulnerability exploits, malicious and potentially unwanted software, and security breaches”. The latest report published yesterday focuses on the first and second quarter of 2011 and compares the findings with data from previous [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Security

Sometimes you do not want to or cannot install another security software on your computer system to scan for malware. Maybe you do not have the rights to install software on the computer or you have a program installed and do not want to risk incompatibilities. The alternative is an application like F-Secure’s Online Scanner [...]

Categories: Online Services, Security, Spyware

Question: How can you protect USB devices like sticks or drives from being infected with computer viruses? Some users are lucky enough to have USB devices that have write protection switches, just like floppy drives had back in the good old days. They just need to pull the switch to write protect their devices. Modern [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Normally any software company that finds one of its product keys being shared on torrent websites would crack down pretty quickly by withdrawing it.  Not Avast however who, according to a report by PC Pro magazine decided to track installs with it to see how far it would spread. The company stayed deathly silent for [...]

Categories: Security

Ten years ago where were worms like Kournikova and I Love You that were infecting computers worldwide with malware and getting mainstream attention on the news.  In that time operating systems and anti-malware programs have improved but now a new sex worm is making its way around the world according to the BBC. Some variants [...]

Categories: Adobe, Security

UK-based ISP TalkTalk, owned by the Carphone warehouse (Phone Warehouse in the EU) has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failing to disclose enough information about a malware system it was launching, according to the BBC. The controversial system collected the URLs of websites visited by its customers and the ISP failed to [...]

Categories: The Web

With the number of smartphones on the market on an ever-increasing rise Google’s Android operating system is the first to be hit by a major virus.  The malware can steal cash from unsuspecting users by sending premium-rate text messages from their handset.

Categories: Google

No, the BBC isn’t trying to subsidise its coffers by branching out into cyber-crime.  As an experiment the British public-service broadcaster wants to know just how secure smartphones really are. The malware takes the form of a game that spies on the smartphone’s owner and was built using the standard software toolkits that are available  [...]

Categories: Hacking

Hackers have moved in the last few years away from attacking platforms such as Windows, and instead on to attacking software.  This is in a large part because the security of operating systems such as Microsoft Windows have increased incredibly in recent years while other software companies have remained complacent. The latest threat is another [...]

Categories: Adobe, Apple, Hacking