We’ve heard the mantra often enough; that security is a multi-faceted affair – that it is not about the latest bleeding edge firewalls or antivirus software, but that it is also dependant upon users practicing a culture of safe computing.
Yet you know that the road ahead is a very long and arduous one when an […]

Was hit by a virus attack couple of days ago. Have just (more or less) got most of the software back in and my laptop back to a functional state.
Read on to hear my experience of it.

Just got a mail 5 minutes ago from Microsoft reiterating the new activation procedures - or should I say anti-piracy measures, built into Windows Vista. Whatever it is, given the prevalence of the Windows platform, being aware of the additional limitations built into Vista would probably be useful.
The salient points are as follows:

An article from Network World just caught my eyes. Much like what I wrote last week about The death of the anti-virus software, New approaches to malware detection coming into view notes that “traditional signature-based method to detecting viruses and other malware is increasing seen as an insufficient defense given the rapid pace at […]

I came across “Jim Rapoza’s 12 Ways to be a Security Idiot” on eWeek. If you have not seen this yet, I recommend that you take a look at this nifty piece.
Basically it contains some very nicely done graphical slides about the various (many) things that your typical “Security Idiot” would do that will […]

If you went out shopping for a new burglar alarm today, what kind of features would you demand of it? I mean, would you purchase one that can be triggered off only when it detects a known burglar or felon in your house?
You know – the one with the spiffy feature that allows it […]

Trend Micro has a new version of its mobile security software out.  Rather imaginatively named Trend Micro Mobile Security 3.0, the additional feature of this version versus 2.0 of the same is that it brings to the party a firewall and intrusion detection software.  The previous version on the other hand was antivirus and antispam […]