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Google Intros Site Assessment Tool

Hats off to Google for chipping in a new (free) tool to help Web site builders scour their URLs for potential security vulnerabilities.The tool...

Botnets Marching On

E-mail security specialists Commtouch Software have released their latest security trends report, which illustrates the major hand that botnet-controlled machines continue to play in...

Trojans Dominated During Q2

AV maker Panda Software published its report on malware trends for the second quarter of 2008 and finds that Trojan attacks were by far...

Malware Terrorists Play on Iran War Fears

It's not all that surprising, as current events have long been a staple among the lures employed by malware distributors seeking to trick people...

Malware Goes (Really) Mainstream

Well, as if having a security threat research site modeled in direct imitation of Grand Theft Auto (over 6 million copies sold in a...

McAfee Project Slices, Dices Spam

Security software giant McAfee recently published the results of an interesting month-long project aimed at putting a fix on just how bad the issue...

VLC Player Falls Prey to Critical Flaw

It would seem that multimedia playing software programs are always among the most popular sources of high-level security risks, and this time it's the...

New Effort Targets Handheld Security

There's already been a lot written and said about the potential for mobile malware and the need to better secure next-generation handheld devices, but...

Is Malware Growth Finally Slowing?

An interesting post from McAfee researcher Toralv Dirro this week suggests that the seemingly endless proliferation of larger volumes of malware variants may actually...

Microsoft Steps Up IE8 Security

Sticking to this week's hot topic of browser security -- building off an influential new report published on the topic on Tuesday and Mozilla's...