This is pretty interesting, and not in the good kind of way either.  McAfee recently did a study to see the number of people who own unprotected systems.  The number was 78 percent.  That isn’t the scary thing though.  The number that really was shocking was the amount of people that ‘thought’ they were secure.  […]

As much as it hurts to say, firewalls just aren’t as effective as they were when they first debuted on the marketplace.  Now it’s not like the firewalls are just poorly designed, that’s not it whatsoever.  It’s really because of the new targets that hackers attack: the application layer.  Not only that, but also the […]

Symantec’s Verita NetBackup 6.5 was recently awarded for its focus on data protection and security at the VMWorld Conference.  For those of you who use VMWare or other virtualization software, you may be interested in the capabilities of NetBackup.  It looks like they offer a plethora of different features and security measures that will really […]

While it may sound strange, it is nothing less than true.  iPods, even after being available to the public for years are still a growing phenomenon.  And the newest place they are growing — the workplace.  Granted, iPods are a great way to bring your music anywhere you want, but that’s not all they’re good […]

Microsoft just released some new patches yesterday and you should grab them as soon as you can.  While three of the patches don’t seem to be that critical, one of them is.  Especially with the new hacking toolkits being publicly released, you should have all of the most recent updates and patches on your computer […]

The results of this report were very interesting and honestly surprised me. Not only were malicious tactics covered, but the report also talked about secure operating systems and browsers. This report seems to be changing the paradigm on a couple of things: Internet Explorer will become more secure than Firefox and the idea […]

This is true to a degree. It is not because antivirus solutions are becoming less functional though; it is more like malware developers are creating smarter malware. Through using signature-based detection algorithms (finding unique and identifiable code that can be related to malware behavior), antivirus solutions worked great against static malware. Unfortunately, […]

This sounds like a really interesting project. Over the past couple of years, Symantec has been developing a project called ‘Dark Vision’ that digs through underground web sites, forums and chat rooms looking for sensitive information. While it is still a long way from being completed, they state that they currently are not […]

Nowadays, the whole do-it-yourself kit is becoming very popular among online criminals. For a certain free, they are able to get some of the most popular exploits for the most popular programs, which pretty much guarantees the buyer compromised computers if viewers were ever to browse the site the kit was on. Fortunately, […]

Web 2.0, the idea of bringing interactivity and establishing communities via the Internet, is not as pleasant as some may think. Because of the ‘open’ (for lack of a better word) architecture Web 2.0 sites use, criminals are taking advantage of the functionality that is provided to users. When you think of a […]