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Sober Virus Clones Taunt AV Vendors

A new batch of Sober virus clones has been spammed around the world to seed botnets for malicious use, anti-virus vendors warned Tuesday. The appearance...

NAC Will Fill a Big IT Security Gap

When Zotob and other worms attacked a Windows vulnerability in August, some (yeah, thats me) were surprised that large companies were affected. After all,...

Sonys Uninstaller Is Worse than Its DRM

In response to the firestorm over its DRM on CDs, Sony made available last week a Web-based "uninstaller" to remove it. It appears this...

Sonys Rootkit Is on 500,000 Systems, Expert Says

Sony BMG will have a big job ahead of it as it tries to replace all copies of controversial copy protection software, according to...

3Com Launches Multifunction IPS Appliance

3Com Corp. on Monday announced the first product that combines the companys security technology with intrusion prevention system wares from its new TippingPoint division:...

Juniper to Buy Funk for $122M to Boost NAC

Just weeks after announcing its first dedicated product for network access control, Juniper Networks Inc. on Monday said it was buying Funk Software Inc....

XML-RPC Threatens Linux, Unix Systems

A gaggle of new threats that target computers running the Linux and Unix operating systems appeared on the Internet last week, challenging administrators more...

Key Exchange Protocol Flaw Haunts Cisco, Juniper

Security researchers in Finland have discovered a serious security flaw in the way several big-name vendors implement the important Internet Security Association and Key...

Microsoft to Zap Sony DRM Rootkit

Microsoft Corp. will start deleting the rootkit component of the controversial DRM scheme used by Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The software giants Windows AntiSpyware application...

Webroot Has Good News and Bad About Adware, Spyware

The face of spyware is changing as adware infection rates level off and targeted Trojans and system monitors become more prevalent. So says the...