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McAfee and Check Point turn to sandboxing to fend off APTs
The effectiveness of antivirus protection has never been under greater scrutiny but McAfee and Check Point believe they have found a new story to counter some of the the doubt ? sandboxing.
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Security firm Trustwave targeted by phishing campaign
Customers of security firm Trustwave are being targeted by a phishing campaign that masquerades as a PCI DSS compliance scan, the company has warned.
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Bad Kaspersky AV update prevents business and home users from accessing websites
A faulty antivirus update issued by Kaspersky Lab on Monday left many of its home and business customers unable to access any websites on their computers.
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Symantec defiant after New York Times hackers evade antivirus defences
Symantec has offered a carefully-worded but defiant response to the news that one of its customers, the New York Times, was attacked by Chinese hackers with barely any intervention from its software.
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New Java exploiton sale for $5000
Just days after it released a patch for a serious security flaw discovered last week in its Java programming language, the software is making headlines again because another previously unpublicised flaw in the program threatens the security of millions of PCs that may still have the application running on it.
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Security vendors failing to tackle mobile malware, say CISOs
Malware is still the biggest threat to mobile security, but most mobile device management (MDM) strategies tend to focus on securing the physical device in case of loss of theft, according to Peter Gibbons, head of Information Security at Network Rail.
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Iran hit by new data-wiping cyberattack
Iran?s national CERT has warned of a new type of data-wiping malware that bears some of the hallmarks of a cyberattack that severely disrupted the country?s oil industry earlier this year.
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Researchers show proof-of-concept Microsoft ERP database hack
Security researchers have presented proof-of-concept code capable of accessing the database driving a Microsoft ERP system and then diverting funds while avoiding immediate detection.
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John McAfee arrested in Guatemala
Fugitive anti-virus technology pioneer John McAfee is cheerful, after being arrested by Guatemalan officials on charges that he entered the country illegally. He claims to have run from Belize to seek political asylum and sees the jails in Guatemala as "vastly superior to Belize jails".
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Antivirus software a waste of money for businesses, report suggests
Antivirus software is now so ineffective at detecting new malware threats most enterprises are probably wasting their money buying it, an analysis by security firm Imperva has concluded.
