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RSS anti in newsIntel and AMD bury the hatchet with $1.25bn deal
News The settlement, announced yesterday, ends antitrust litigation against Intel in which the chip giant was accused of alleged anti-competitive practices towards AMD. All outstanding legal disputes between Intel and AMD... [13 Nov 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News Scareware is a growing problem - according to the Anti Phising Working Group, the amount of rogue antivirus software has increased six-fold in the first half of this year and 200 gangs are using it to make money. [19 Oct 2009]
Who's afraid of malware? Four in 10 have never had a virus
News The poll suggests that successful virus attacks could be becoming less common, or that anti-virus packages are stopping the malware before it has a chance to cause problems: only eight per cent of those who responded... [05 Oct 2009]
Microsoft releases free security package
News Security Essentials, previously known as Morro, is available as a free download from Microsoft and features security tools including antivirus and anti-spyware. Microsoft has finally unveiled a new security product,... [30 Sep 2009]
Online fraudsters enlist Trojans to run off with your money
News This is part of a new trend of more sophisticated Trojans designed to evade anti-fraud systems. The Trojan is given a minimum and a maximum range that is below the amount that triggers anti-fraud systems... [30 Sep 2009]
Bletchley Park's Alan Turing gets official apology
News Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptographer whose work played an essential role in the efforts of codebreaking-centre Bletchley Park during WWII, received a posthumous apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week for Turing's... [14 Sep 2009]
Apple's Mac OS 'lagging behind Vista on security'
News The post cites unnamed reports about an anti-malware feature being added. Contrary to popular Mac fanboy belief, Macintosh is not more secure from a software standpoint than modern Windows; it's merely safer to use... [27 Aug 2009]
Businesses' XP addiction is keeping Microsoft from killing IE 6
News Microsoft added things like tabbed browsing and a phishing filter back with Internet Explorer 7, which debuted in October 2006, and earlier this year launched Internet Explorer 8, with anti-malware features as well as a... [14 Aug 2009]
Windows 7's XP Mode: It's almost ready
News Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc recommends in the blog post announcing the XP Mode RC that users install antivirus and anti-malware protections in XP Mode in addition to whatever protective steps users have taken in the... [05 Aug 2009]
Is Chrome ready to shine when it comes to security?
News Chrome's initial line of defence is to check a site being visited against several anti-malware and anti-phishing blacklists that comprise Google's Safe Browsing service. The techniques Google uses to... [23 Jul 2009]
£24m: The cost of tracking your emails and phone calls
News Home Office policing and security minister, David Hanson, told Parliament last week that millions are now being spent to fund ISPs', telcos' and mobile operators' retention of communications data under the European Data Retention... [13 Jul 2009]
Short URLs on spammers' hit-lists
News Matt Sergeant, a senior anti-spam technologist at MessageLabs, said: "Usually when we see a spike of this nature it tends to indicate that a spammer has found some method of automating the creation of these short URLs. [08 Jul 2009]
Why Google's security arm doesn't have a war room
News Google's Gmail anti-spam efforts are separate from those of Postini, which Google acquired two years ago, although it follows similar computerised operations and the teams have started to integrate the processes. [02 Jul 2009]
Dell puts email, encryption up in the cloud
News For example, the Distributed Device Management service includes features such as asset management, software distribution, patch management and anti-malware management. Dell has rolled out a SaaS package to enable... [30 Jun 2009]
HTC unveils latest Android mobile
News In addition, it features a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen with an anti-fingerprint screen coating. At a press event in London on Wednesday, HTC unveiled its latest Google Android device, the HTC Hero, featuring a new user... [25 Jun 2009]
