Computer Security News

IT security and data protection company Sophos has warned iPhone users of the world's first iPhone virus that is spreading in the wild in Australia.

Allegations of widespread phone-tapping at the News of the World have been rejected by the press watchdog.

Apple iPhone owners in Australia have reported that their smartphones have been infected by a worm that has changed their wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop crooner Rick Astley.

U.S. officials say government computer systems are probed or scanned millions of times a day, and face an increasing threat from hackers, cybercriminals looking to steal money or information, and nation-states aimed at espionage or the destruction of networks that run vital services.

WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader of business security and connectivity solutions, today announced that it is teaming with AVG Technologies, a global leader of consumer and commercial internet security software and technology, to provide WatchGuard unified threat management customers with comprehensive and cutting-edge anti-virus protection.

ORLANDO Enrique Salem wants Symantec Corp.'s VARs to know that not only is the security giant recommitting itself to the channel, but also that a key part of that effort will involve helping channel customers use technology to secure sensitive data.

ALERT: DT contributor and Military.com editor Ward Carroll will be on KGO radio at 6:10 PST to discuss the latest details around the Fort Hood shootings.

Australian internet provider BigPond has become the latest internet company to be targeted by hackers on Twitter, after one of its accounts was hijacked as part of a phishing scam.

Virus Bulletin staff tested FortiMail among 13 other anti-spam products for detection rates and the number of false positives.

A series of power outages affecting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were the result of cyber attacks, 60 MINUTES has learned.

ORLANDO, Flor. - Partner Engage 2009 .- Symantec Corp. today reinforced its commitment to help partners succeed in 2010 and beyond, unveiling a variety of new resources at its annual partner conference, Symantec Partner Engage 2009.

Microsoft Corp.'s monthly predictions about whether hackers will create reliable exploit code for its bugs were right only about a quarter of the time in the first half of 2009, the company acknowledged Monday.

The Swedish police network was taken down last week in a distributed denial of service attack.

What happens when good robots go - bad'? Study says home bots could be hacked by some with not-good intentions Robots are "little computers and in some cases, little mobile computers with webcams," says Tamara Denning, lead author of a study about potential robot dangers when control of the bots falls into the wrong hands.

Thanks to the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter , it's a given that malicious hackers will devise ways to exploit the sites' numerous users in order to infect their computers with malware.

BANGALORE: Increasing use of IT infrastructure by Indian enterprises to enhance productivity and expand operations in a competitive environment has led to growing security risks such as loss of critical data, a study by the intelligence marketing firm IDC Ltd.

Though jailbreaking an iPhone certainly opens up opportunities to add functionality that Apple doesn't approve of, it can also make an iPhone less secure.

Whitelisting security has always taken a backseat to blacklisting approaches. After all, when there is far more good software running on computers and networks than bad software, it's just easier to block the bad than to approve all the good.

Symantec Corp. today announced the availability of Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 , a complete data and system backup and recovery solution for small businesses.

Microsoft's monthly predictions about whether hackers will create reliable exploit code for its bugs were right only about a quarter of the time in the first half of 2009, the company acknowledged Monday.