A man from Washington in the United States has filed a lawsuit against the security company Symantec, where he accuses the company of fraud and illegal practices. According to the lawsuit, Symantec uses the same kind of intimidation techniques as fake scareware software to sell its PC cleanup utilities. The man who submitted ... Continue Reading

Facebook has teamed up with the data security company Websense to protect Facebook users from malicious code, often spread via links to third party sites. According to the press release from the two companies, a new warning system will be introduced, which enables the user to cancel the action, or get ... Continue Reading

The German activist group, the Independent Center for Privacy Protection (ULD), which protect Internet users privacy, claims that Facebook is using the Like button to track their users interests. The group argues that the procedure is illegal under both German and European data laws. According to the ULD, users must be ... Continue Reading

The security program SUPERAntiSpyware is a free software that can be used to remove malicious programs from your computer. Version 5 is now ready for download with a new user interface, which according to the developers, is more user friendly and has got a faster startup and the program will ... Continue Reading

Just a few months after the launch of Firefox 4.0, Mozilla has decided that this version will no longer be supported. Firefox 4.0 only received one update, version 4.0.1, which was released in April. This means that in order to have a safe browser, you are recommended by Mozilla to ... Continue Reading

Yesterday, the following message appeared on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page on Facebook: Obviously, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t actually write it, but hackers who yesterday succeeded in taking over the Facebook founder's fan page, writes TechCrunch. The post is now removed. "Perhaps this sort of "injury to one is an injury to ... Continue Reading

The super virus that was used against the Iranian nuclear program have been sold on the black market and can be used by terrorists. Computer security experts say that the Stuxnet worm, the first that has been used to damage real world targets, can be used to attack any physical ... Continue Reading

The security company Bit9, which has various U.S. authorities on their customer list, is now ready with this year's "Dirty Dozen" list. It summarized the public information from the National Institute of Standards and Technology about how many weaknesses that have been reported in different applications, which also has required ... Continue Reading

The security company Kaspersky has studied the amount of threats discovered on the web for the second quarter of 2010. The security company Kaspersky Lab has released a study in which they have measured the number of threats on the internet during the second quarter of this year. During this period, ... Continue Reading

F-Secure has previously had a security solution called Mobile Security for Symbian and Windows Mobile phones. Now it is also available for the Android platform. F-Secure Mobile Security 6 will provide comprehensive protection against malicious code and also an anti-theft protection for smart phones. The built-in browser protection also makes browsing more ... Continue Reading

Google believes that Windows is too insecure, but Microsoft defends its operating system. As you have probably heard by now, Google has, according to several sources, decided to relocate all its employees to other operating systems than Windows. It is allegedly the Chinese attacks in December last year that have led ... Continue Reading

Facebook has responded to the recent massive criticism with new and more simple privacy settings. Social networks like Facebook is about sharing information. But sometimes it is also about being able to control what information you do not want to share. Facebook has received substantial criticism for its sloppy handling of ... Continue Reading