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Privacy remains a concern for a significant portion of people who use social-networking sites, if the findings from two recent surveys are any indication.

The amount of spam the UK is producing has surged, causing Britain to take fourth place in Sophos' 'Dirty Dozen' list of the top spam-producing countries.

Oracle Corp. released 59 patches on Tuesday to fix security vulnerabilities across its entire range of database, application and middleware products.

Mail security and software utilties company GFI Software has bought independent US antivirus company Sunbelt Software for an undisclosed sum.

Microsoft on Tuesday officially retired Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), the company's most significant service pack, several security experts said.

Security company Imperva has announced a software firewall that protects and monitors access to files sitting on network-attached storage (NAS) servers.

The notorious ZeuS banking Trojan is showing off a new trick: Popping up on infected computers with a fake enrollment screen for the "Verified By Visa" or "MasterCard SecureCode Security" programs.

Facebook has revealed it will install an app on the social network that allows web users to access the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) reporting centre as well as advice on staying safe online.

Tuesday marks the end of patches for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). If you're still running that edition of XP, you can still take steps to protect your PC.

Microsoft kicks off its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) today in Washington, DC. One of the first announcements to come out of the event is about the new features and expanded availability of the Windows Intune beta.

One in three Brits are putting themselves at risk of fraud because they do confirm the authenticity of travel providers before giving out their credit card details when booking a holiday online, says GetSafeOnline.org.

Microsoft's hosted desktop management service Intune moves to the second beta stage

A couple of incidents recently reminded me of principles I teach my students in computing courses about how to govern ourselves when using e-mail.

When it comes to sampling innovative technology, Schwan Foods, a multibillion-dollar frozen food producer, digs right in.

Some IT execs dismiss public cloud services as being too insecure to trust with critical or sensitive application workloads and data. But not Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group, an emergency management firm in Lafayette, La.

Anyone running multiple firewalls in a complex, enterprise environment knows how difficult it can be to catch misconfigurations, avoid conflicting rules, identify vulnerabilities and meet auditing and compliance mandates.

The plan to "reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve online privacy protections" floated in June by Howard Schmidt, the Cybersecurity Coordinator and Special Assistant to the President, is comprehensive and an important step in the right direction.

Malicious hypervisors. Subversive virtual machines. Live migration impersonators. Welcome to the world of server virtualization, where the threats are new and the traditional security tools like firewalls and intrusion-prevention systems don't cut it anymore. Unfortunately, at many enterprises, security strategies haven’t kept pace with the shift to x.86 server virtualization http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2010/ndc2/032210-ndc-tools-trends.html?source=nww_rss . “Many companies that have virtualized environments haven’t contemplated the security ramifications of what they’re doing yet,” says Forrester analyst John Kindervag.

Facebook has revealed it will install an app on the social network that allows web users to access the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) reporting centre as well as advice on staying safe online.

Tuesday marks the end of patches for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). If you're still running that edition of XP, you can still take steps to protect your PC.