Today’s mobile spam and phishing attacks will increasingly delivered by mobile malware networks, despite mobile device operating systems being more …
Are 8 Windows more shatterproof than 7?
So far, the evidence suggests Windows 8 has hardly been the gleaming success that Microsoft no doubt hoped it would …
Unstoppable force
When Cisco sold its home networking arm, Linksys, to rival Belkin in January, the firm said that it wanted to …
Linux now available on Windows 8 machines
The Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware …
RSA launches Security Analytics in UAE
RSA last week launched its Security Analytics solution in the UAE, promising to leverage big data in order to provide …
Flash Player vulnerabilities trigger emergency update
Adobe updated Flash Player on Thursday in order to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers have reportedly been …
Bit9 chooses Bridge as distributor
Bridge Systems this week announced that it had been chosen by advanced threat protection vendor Bit9 to be a value-added …
2012 ‘year of the exploit’
In a security landscape report released on Tuesday, security software maker F-Secure claimed that 2012 was the “year of the …
Sophos unveils Mobile Control 3.0
Sophos on Tuesday unveiled Mobile Control 3.0, the latest version of its MDM (mobile device management) product for Android-based tablets …
Java for OS X restored
Apple on Friday released its own update for Java 6 for Mac users running OS X Snow Leopard, matching Oracle’s …
HP uses SDN to scale up TippingPoint
HP announced last week that it plans to use its recently unveiled SDN controller to distribute its TippingPoint intrusion prevention …
Kaspersky adds mobile, system management to business security offering
Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday made its bid to reduce the complexity associated with managing IT security processes in corporate environments, …
Cyber criminals ditch PCs for mobile era, according to survey
Cyber criminals have moved beyond the traditional PC, targeting Android, social media and even the Mac OS X with new …
Software reseller pays damages to Microsoft
In February 2012 the Anti-Economic Crimes Department of the Dubai Police carried out an enforcement action against a computer and …
Losing the battle
Security shot up the priority list of not just CIOs but also higher management in 2012 as the world witnessed …
Mac virus a ‘wake-up call’, says CEO
Following on from last year’s Flashback Trojan incident, which saw 600,000 Mac users infected with malware through a Java loophole, …
Virut botnet crippled by researchers
The Virut botnet suffered a major setback last week, after it was announced that many of the domain names used …
Researchers find another Java security flaw
Researchers from a Poland-based vulnerability research firm on Friday announced that they had found vulnerabilities in Java 7 Update 11 …
Microsoft promises improved security
Following a failed evaluation by a German software security testing firm, Microsoft vowed on Wednesday to improve two of its …
New Java flaw found in days, sells on black web
Oracle’s bad Java week got worse on Wednesday, after it was announced that a previously unknown flaw in the programming …