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Article | 23/07/2010 Dell revamps hardware testing in wake of malware issue
A sequence of errors led to Dell's delivery of motherboards with malware and the company is in the process of overhauling its testing process to resol...
Article | 22/07/2010 Microsoft releases beta of upgraded Security Essentials
Microsoft has released a beta for the next version of its free security software, Security Essentials, according to a blog post.
Article | 22/07/2010 Dell warns of malware on server motherboards
Dell is apparently warning customers that "a small number" of its PowerEdge R410 server motherboards may contain malicious software.
Article | 22/07/2010 Dell warns of malware on server motherboards
Dell is warning customers that "a small number" of its server motherboards may contain malicious software.
Article | 20/07/2010 Black Hat talk to reveal analysis of hacker fingerprints
Looking deeper within malware yields fingerprints of the hackers who write the code, and that could result in signatures that have a longer lifetime t...
Article | 18/07/2010 New virus targets industrial secrets
Siemens is warning customers of a new and highly sophisticated virus that targets the computers used to manage large-scale industrial control systems ...
Article | 23/06/2010 Death of Windows XP SP2 Support a Security Risk, Says Report
If your business is still running Service Pack 2 of Windows XP, security problems are lurking around the corner, according to new research from IT ser...
Article | 21/06/2010 Testing reveals security software often misses new malware
New research has further confirmed the difficulties security software companies are having keeping up with an explosion in malicious software programs...
Article | 14/06/2010 Linux Trojan raises malware concerns
I've got good news and bad news for those of the misguided perception that Linux is somehow impervious to attack or compromise.
Article | 4/06/2010 Panda's free antivirus adds new malware blocking
Panda Security has bolstered the features available in its free antivirus product, Cloud Antivirus, adding a new behavioural engine and Windows autoru...
Article | 10/05/2010 Gumblar Trojan vanishes suddenly yet again
A prolific variant of the Gumblar Trojan has performed another vanishing act, disappearing suddenly from malware figures gathered by Kaspersky Lab.
Article | 11/05/2010 Windows 7 'compatibility checker' is a Trojan
Scammers are infecting computers with a Trojan horse program disguised as software that determines whether PCs are compatible with Windows 7.
Article | 6/05/2010 FireEye vows to expose 'truth' behind modern malware
In his interview with CSO last week, FireEye Chief Security Architect Marc Maiffret lamented what he sees as <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/podcast...
Article | 5/05/2010 FireEye malware blockers don't rely on signatures
FireEye Wednesday unveiled its first appliances built for in-line blocking of Web and e-mail malware using wholly non-signature-based detection method...
Article | 5/05/2010 Foxit Reader update blocks new PDF attack tactic
Foxit Software, the developer of a rival PDF viewer to Adobe's vulnerability-plagued Reader, released an update today that blocks some attacks with a ...