Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.0 released
Panda has finished the beta testing of their brand new Antivirus product named Cloud Antivirus.
As the name suggests, this Antivirus software uses cloud computing technologies to stay up to date.
It has been in beta testing for some months now and users have been fairly impressed with this new concept [...]
Kaspersky Labs: Twitter has a major malware problem
Kaspersky Labs has revealed that as per their research one in 500 links posted on Twitter leads to malware.
They have deployed a tool on the service that monitors the links shared on the network.
Twitter uses shortened links which are hard to decipher for regular users. [...]
Microsoft suing scareware developers
US based software giant Microsoft is now taking the legal route to take on developers of scareware applications.
The company has filed lawsuits against five companies which they claim indulge in such practices.
These five companies are: DirectAd Solutions, Soft Solutions, qiweroqw.com, ote2008.info and ITmeter.
Microsoft claims in their lawsuits that [...]
Apple might have included an anti-malware in Mac OS X Snow Leopard
More and more online sources are indicating that Apple has included some form of an anti-malware in the Mac OS X Snow Leopard update.
Snow Leopard is going on sale tomorrow and Apple has not released any kind of information which mentions the inclusion [...]
Twitter working on filtering bad links on the service
If you are a heavy user of the Twitter micro-blogging social networking service, you would have noticed that it is misused by a lot of people to post links to malicious websites.
F-Secure has reported that Twitter has started working on filtering such postings. It has implemented [...]
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 launched
Security software maker McAfee has announced the launch of their ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5.
The company said that this new product is designed to help secure organizations from a vast and ever-growing threat landscape.
McAfee added that the corporate entities have to remember four major points while ensuring the security of their networks:
1. Integrating [...]
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities
Microsoft has announced that they would release a couple of crucial bug fixes in the upcoming Patch Tuesday updates for the month of July.
The company revealed that the fixes would include the patch for the zero-day vulnerability in its Video ActiveX Control.
Microsoft had confirmed this bug [...]
Microsoft Security Essentials Preview Beta
Microsoft Security Essentials beta edition coming out next week
US based software giant Microsoft has announced that they are going to release a test version of its much talked about security product Microsoft Security Essentials on Tuesday.
Microsoft Security Essentials was codenamed Microsoft Morro and it is a free security product that would be offered to [...]
Morro is named Microsoft Security Essentials?
Online sources say that Microsoft is going to name their upcoming antivirus product for Windows users Microsoft Security Essentials.
This product is currently codenamed Morro and is scheduled to be released later this year.
Microsoft recently said that a public beta would be made available in the coming weeks.
This product [...]
