A botnet is a number of Internet computers that, although their owners are unaware of it, have been set up to forward transmissions (including spam or viruses) to other computers on the Internet. Any such computer is referred to as a zombie - in effect, a computer "robot" or ...

Does free online security tools complete job? My answer is NO. The free security tools which are avaialable on the net doest not posess powerfull scanning as the paid versions do. These online scanners tools are only for demo purpose only. By using these tools one can only get rid of few ...

A zero-day exploit is one that takes advantage of a security vulnerability on the same day that the vulnerability becomes generally known. Ordinarily, after someone detects that a software program contains a potential exposure to exploitation by a hacker, that person or company can notify the software company and sometimes ...

Audit unearthed disaster-in-the-making. "What the report showed, which was correct, was that we weren't taking the proper steps to protect some laptops," Everson said. "We've worked to encrypt all of the laptops and that's just about done. We've got a couple dozen more we've got to finish ...

Security vendor Sophos reported last Thursday that Microsoft's Vista is vulnerable to at least three pieces of widespread malware, two of which date back to 2004. At least three well-known internet worms -- labelled Stratio-Zip, Netsky-D and MyDoom-O by Sophos -- are able to execute on the operating system, according ...

Hackers and virus creators have finally infected the Apple iPod - albeit very marginally since it affects only iPods with the Linux operating system  (about 0.01% of all iPods). Kasperksy Lab calls it the 'Podloso' while security major F-secure has named the virus 'Oslo.zip'. According to a report by Kaspersky Lab, ...

Job cuts expected after Websense bid. Websense has made a $400m offer to buy UK security vendor SurfControl, and said there will be job cuts when the deal closes. Read more at ivanr

PC security specialist BeCrypt is set to launch its answer to the problem of laptop security - a whole thin-client operating system that fits on a standard USB stick and can be carried around in place of a PC. Trusted Client’, as it’s called, will be aimed at companies who have ...

Holiday season shopping is at the peak and identity theft is also at its height. A police report that provides specific details of the identity theft is considered an Identity Theft Report, which entitles you to certain legal rights when it is provided to the three major credit reporting agencies ...

Last month i bought a new computer. I installed an operating system on it and no any antivirus was installed on it. Firewall was also inactive. I just started using ...

To accommodate systems management products that want to extend the basic capabilities provided by EWLM, the ARM 4.0 library routine delivered for each operating system provides an ARM adapter layer by which ARM API extensions to the systems management product might be called. When a systems management product uses ...

The FBI operates the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC). I think a better mnemonic for IFCC is "I fink on crooks and criminals." <grin> The U.S. Department of Justice operates www.cybercrime.gov, which is concerned with computer crime and intellectual property violations. The U.S. Government Department of Homeland Security has a ...