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First iPhone 2.0 antivirus software released
News Paris-based computer security firm Intego said late last week it had released the first antivirus software for Apple's iPhone handset. Antivirus company F-Secure has not received any reports of malware for the iPhone, according to Fei Wing Chia, a... [21 Jul 2008]
Symantec Endpoint Security Bundles: New and Improved Symantec Multi-Tier Protection and Symantec Multi-Tier Protection Small Business Edition
White Paper These two bundles offer new additional features such as Symantec Premium Antispam, Symantec 8300 Appliance Software, Symantec Antivirus for Macintosh and Linux systems and Symantec Antivirus for Windows Mobile. [08 Jul 2008]
Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News A is for Antivirus There's a crucial distinction between investigating specific threats and the mass trawling of the population. In a speech at the Homeland & Border Security Conference 2008 in London on Thursday, Admiral Lord West, parliamentary... [04 Jul 2008]
The 'multi-component' malware threat
News A is for Antivirus According to Ducklin, security vendors face both challenges and opportunities in dealing with multi-component threats. Jens Andreassen, vice president for Asia-Pacific at Fortinet, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet Asia in an... [02 Jul 2008]
Barclays gives online users free security software
News Barclays already offers its online banking customers free antivirus software but has now beefed up the package to protect against other internet security threats.silicon.com Financial Services Barclays director of digital banking Sean Gilchrist... [01 Jul 2008]
Web-based malware up 400 per cent
News From antivirus to zero-day, click here for silicon.com's alphabetical guide to security. The fastest-growing category of threats hosted on the sites was backdoor and password-stealing malware, which increased 855 per cent from May 2007 to May 2008. [06 Jun 2008]
A Comprehensive Approach to Securing and Managing Endpoints
White Paper Traditionally, administrators have made sure that each endpoint has antivirus, antispyware, desktop firewall, intrusion prevention, and device control technologies installed on it. Many of these sophisticated threats can evade traditional security... [30 May 2008]
Lower Costs and Reduce Risk With Symantec Endpoint Protection
White Paper Antivirus, antispyware, network threat protection, and proactive threat protection may be managed independently at different locations. To ward off threats more proactively and to cut down endpoint security costs, a growing number of businesses are... [30 May 2008]
Vista security under scrutiny, again
News In response to claims last week by Austin Wilson, director of Windows client security product management, that statistics collected using Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) showed Vista was more secure than Windows 2000, Clausen... [21 May 2008]
Nato fires up cyber defences
News From antivirus to zero-day, click here for silicon.com's alphabetical guide to security. Nato supreme allied commander for transformation, General James Mattis, said there is a compelling need for the centre to help Nato "defy and successfully... [16 May 2008]
How to Defend Your Network from Sudden Zero-Day Attacks
White Paper Most worms and viruses do their damage while they're still new and unrecognized by antivirus signature files. Download this Panda Software white paper, titled "Intelligent Security Against New Threats," to read about a new generation of endpoint... [16 May 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment Security experts are having to admit that traditional antivirus scanning approaches are no longer able to keep pace with the growth in malware products, increasingly purpose-designed by sophisticated criminal gangs, with product packers to defeat... [29 Apr 2008]
Security threat: One web page infected every five seconds
News A is for Antivirus Web threats have risen significantly in the first quarter of 2008, with one web page being infected every five seconds, according to a report from security vendor Sophos. Threats circulated via email, on the other hand, appeared... [24 Apr 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News A is for Antivirus Employees and insiders are bigger threats to corporate security than external threats such as denial of service attacks or malware. Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner... [17 Apr 2008]
Virtualisation: IT managers warned of security challenges
News A is for Antivirus Threats to the hypervisor are currently minor - there haven't been many attacks to date, although they will come. He said: "We reduce the scope of threats because we reduce the attack surface of the operating system. [16 Apr 2008]
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