PC Security – Combating Viruses Beyond the PC

by Theo McLanahan You would be hard pressed to find any computer connected to the Internet without some type of anti-virus software to protect from the thousands of viruses circulating the World Wide Web. However, viruses can hit more than just computers. We need to learn how to protect all vulnerable technology such as [...]

Microsoft Releases Out-of-Cycle Patches For Exploits

It’s not the second Tuesday of the month, but Microsoft has rushed out several patches for Internet Explorer. These are related to the zero-day exploit that was revealed earlier in the month; however it appears that the underlying vulnerability was not fixed; independent security researchers have discovered the underlying flaw and are ready to [...]

TrendWatch Relaunch

Trend Micro recently relaunched TrendWatch, its dedicated threat center, to keep users better informed and abreast of the latest threats! As with the website’s earlier launch last year, this year’s relaunch aims to continue to make more intuitive information about all threats as accessible as possible to all our site visitors. The site will [...]

Symantec: Why bigger is better but less is more

Symantec likes to point out how much bigger it is than competitors like McAfee, which at $1.6 billion in annual revenue is about a quarter of Symantec’s size. But it also has come to recognize that bigness has its downsides, such as confusion that can stem from having too many products.

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Spammers go multilingual, use automatic translation services

For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity. Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on their country of origin, followed by an attempt [...]