A smartphone is often expensive enough to be investment of sorts, so many people like to protect them. Nokia's approach to physical protection has been pretty unusual, with 3D printing tips for the Lumia 820.... More...

Immunet provides essential antivirus protection for PC users. Immunet provides extra antivirus protection that is light, fast and compatible with existing security products. Fast Antivirus: Immunet leverages the speed of cloud computing to deliver real-time protection... More...

A recently released NSS Labs study, claims that Internet Explorer 8 greatly outperforms competing browsers in terms of protecting users against web based malware. According to the study based upon a sample of 492 URLs,... More...

Microsoft has just snared a U.S. patent for proactive virus protection, which is how security software helps secure your PC when it encounters shape-shifting malware not already in its antivirus definition file. What I want... More...

AVG 8.0 Free now has the basic antivirus and antispyware protection too, for Windows. However, AVG Free 8.0 doesn't have all of the features you get in the commercial version of the application. There's no... More...

Security vendor AVG Technologies has acquired internet protection vendor Exploit Prevention Labs. AVG was acquired by anti-virus vendor Grisoft in August this year (CRN, 24 August), and the combined company was rebranded AVG Technologies. Roger... More...

Last week Novell filed a motion requesting that the court lift SCO's bankruptcy stay so that Novell can obtain UNIX licensing royalties wrongfully retained by SCO. Novell has also filed a motion requesting that SCO... More...

BlackICE teams a personal firewall with an advanced intrusion detection system to constantly watch your Internet connection for suspicious behavior. BlackICE responds immediately by alerting you to trouble and instantly blocking the threat. BlackICE automatically... More...

The Helsinki District Court has found that CSS, the copy-protection scheme used in commercial DVDs, is ineffective as a form of DRM and that the two defendants cited for violating Finnish copyright law were not... More...

Digital rights management has suffered another setback when Antigua-based software company SlySoft reportedly updated its AnyDVD HD software with a new AACS encryption code to enable the copying of ostensibly protected HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs.... More...

The House of Representatives has amended the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 to include provisions to protect bloggers from being required to divulge their sources under certain situations in the same way as... More...

The Redmond, Wash., software giant announced this week that it is setting up security response and research operations in Ireland and Japan and launched a preview of a new online Malware Protection Center. The efforts... More...

Microsoft Corporation and Samsung Electronics have agreed to a broad, cross-licensing patent agreement covering Samsung's existing and future product lines. The deal also gives Microsoft access to Samsung's intellectual property related to digital media and... More...

BlackICE teams a personal firewall with an advanced intrusion detection system to constantly watch your Internet connection for suspicious behavior. BlackICE responds immediately by alerting you to trouble and instantly blocking the threat. BlackICE automatically... More...

BlackICE teams a personal firewall with an advanced intrusion detection system to constantly watch your Internet connection for suspicious behavior. BlackICE responds immediately by alerting you to trouble and instantly blocking the threat. BlackICE automatically... More...

BlackICE teams a personal firewall with an advanced intrusion detection system to constantly watch your Internet connection for suspicious behavior. BlackICE responds immediately by alerting you to trouble and instantly blocking the threat. BlackICE automatically... More...

On November 30, Sophos issued its monthly report on the top ten threats reported to them in November of 2006. As a part of this, Sophos also studied Windows Vista's vulnerability to these malware threats.... More...

The code that prevents music downloaded from Apple's iTunes store being played on any portable player other than an iPod has been "cracked". Apple has not commented on claims that Jon Lech Johansen... More...

The Opera development team announced a very interesting feature at their Backstage event, which took place yesterday. Opera 9.1 will include fraud protection measures that are more advanced than IE7 or Firefox 2.0. When visiting... More...

3Sharp, a technical services firm, has found that Internet Explorer 7 has the most accurate Anti-Phishing Protection. The study took six weeks and tested the following eight products: Earthlink, eBay, GeoTrust, Google using Firefox, McAfee,... More...

Microsoft Corp.'s chairman Bill Gates said in an interview that the copy-protection scheme on the Blu-ray discs was very anti-consumer, which would make them harder to on the personal computers. This partly explains Microsoft's decision... More...

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has unveiled a Patent Commons Project that will help developers to avoid infringing patents. The not-for-profit organisation, which aims to further the adoption of Linux, employs several open source... More...

Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it is strengthening the intellectual property protection it provides to PC manufacturers as it tries to fend off competition from Linux rivals. Linux, a freely available operating system,... More...

A simple mechanical way for Windows users to defeat SunnComm's MediaMaxx copy protection scheme, used widely in audio CDs produced by Sony BMG, is being offered on request via e-mail by SunnComm itself, the company's... More...

Sony is currently testing a new form of digital rights management (DRM) called "sterile burning" which allows for copying ripped and burned tracks from a copy-protected disc to a blank CD in WMA format. The... More...

Microsoft wants the Senate to rewrite anti-spyware legislation in order to protect companies that provide spyware removal utilities. The software maker warned Tuesday that two bills approved by the House of Representatives... More...

In an email sent to existing product testers today, Microsoft announced the upcoming beta of System Center Data Protection Manager 2006. Data Protection Manager, or DPM, is a software tool aimed at... More...

Companies and governments have long been concerned about internet abuse in offices; most companies have strict rules against what content can and cannot be viewed. 70% of UK organisations admitted to disciplining staff over in-appropriate... More...

Software being offered for free by third party companies is giving users the latest protection against current Internet Explorer Vulnerabilites. Security outfit Secunia recently announced three new vulnerabilites with Internet Explorer.... More...

When Sun Microsystems releases Solaris as open-source software, it plans to provide legal protection from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the operating system--one of several ways Sun hopes to make Solaris more competitive... More...

America Online on Wednesday said it will bundle McAfee antivirus software for free into its proprietary service and no longer charge a subscription for it. AOL will offer the software, McAfee VirusScan... More...

Today at the Storage Decisions 2004 conference, Microsoft announced it is entering the disk-based backup and recovery industry with Microsoft Data Protection Server (DPS). DPS is designed to provide robust data protection for the Windows... More...

Symantec plans on Tuesday to announce several security upgrades, with a particular focus on protecting personal information from online thieves. The 2005 upgrades apply to versions of the company's products for consumers and small businesses:... More...

A proposal by four members of Congress would give your e-mail more protection. E-mail's that are subject to federal wiretapping would require a court order for real-time interception of communications. According to PCWorld this... More...

Three-quarters of European businesses surveyed said they believe viruses will become more dangerous, while two-thirds believe the frequency of attacks will increase, according to e-mail security firm MessageLabs. Natasha Staley, information security analyst at MessageLabs,... More...

BlackICE Defender delivers bulletproof intrusion detection and personal firewall protection to your PC. It scans your DSL, cable, or dial-up Internet connection looking for hacker activity, much like antivirus programs scan your hard disk looking... More...

You can rip, copy, or play an MP3 file, but one thing you can't do is get more than two channels of sound out of it. Soon, you will be able to, although you may... More...

Microsoft and computer security vendor RSA Security said Tuesday that they will jointly release a new authentication technology using RSA's SecurID tokens to provide better password protection into Windows operating systems. RSA... More...

Macrovision released a new generation of its antipiracy technology on Thursday that it hopes will make copy-protected music CDs more attractive to consumers and record labels. The update attempts to simulate most of what people... More...

A dispute over royalty rights on copy-protected CDs and other types of music discs is helping to stall the release of some new music technology, and could result in record labels owing tens of millions... More...

Novell expects this week to begin offering SuSE Linux customers some legal protection for using the open-source operating system, the fourth legal umbrella to emerge from a computing industry grappling with legal threats brought by... More...

WE REPORTED LAST MONTH that AMD has a cunning plan to work with Microsoft on 64-bit security. And, at the time, we also reported that Intel had no plans to implement this stuff itself. The... More...

Microsoft Word documents that use the software's built-in password protection to avoid unauthorized editing can easily be modified using a relatively simple hack that was recently published on a security Web site. ... More...

Hilarious- BMG have paid a company to protect their music by running some dodgy program that is initiated by autorun :S Wonder how many millions of man hours it took to think up that gem?!... More...

IndieGaming has an article that asserts that CD based copy protection not only doesn't really stop piracy but actually helps create new pirates by forcing casual gamers into the realm of warez as they search... More...

Businesses who buy the open-source operating system from HP won't have to worry about a lawsuit from the SCO Group. Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that it would protect its Linux customers from any legal... More...

The use of physical copyright protection technology on compact disks has again created controversy -- this time creating headaches for retailers and customers of a PC game distributed in Australia by Atari Corp. Atari (formerly... More...

Last week, we began a conversation with tech experts about the relative security of Macintosh computers and PCs running Windows. In fact, quite a few programmers and system administrators, among others, have pointed... More...

Microsoft dug its roots a little deeper into the music business Wednesday, as copy-protection company Macrovision agreed to license its Windows digital rights management technology for CDs. The software giant has gained considerable... More...

Microsoft is working behind the scenes with leading antivirus software vendors to improve the way desktop security software works with its next major operating system, code-named Longhorn. Under enormous pressure from customers, partners,... More...