Symantec Pacific region vice president David Sykes has thrown cold water on the Windows Vista security debacle which emerged last week pointing out that it is pointless speculating about software that isn't released yet.

Microsoft may be waiting until next month to patch a nasty bug in Outlook and Internet Explorer, but security researchers are offering users a more immediate option.

Computer software wizards from near and far will camp at the Silicon Valley headquarters of Internet search titan Yahoo next week for an overnight "hack-a-thon" in the spirit of innovation.

Reconnex has integrated its content monitoring platform with Extreme Networks Inc.'s Ethernet switching solutions to provide customers real-time security with policy enforcement.

Security vendor Sigaba announced this week upgrades to its e-mail security and statement-generation software packages.

Criminals are increasingly trying to trick citizens into giving them their bank account details, according to a survey published on Monday that showed such phishing attempts almost doubled in the first six months.

CodeRed, Nimda and Blaster. These high-profile worms, which exploited flaws in Windows OS and other applications, forced the company to re-examine its approach to developing secure software.

Active Security Monitor is a software program that helps you determine how vulnerable your PC is to computer viruses, spyware and other dangers and learn what steps you can take to improve your protection.

Symantec has launched a blistering attack on Microsoft's lack of support for third-party anti-virus updating their products for Vista.

Cybercrooks are using e-cards that appear to come from a secret admirer in a scam to collect sensitive personal information, a security expert has warned.

A trio of security flaws in Apple Computer software that runs wireless-networking hardware could allow Macs to be hijacked over Wi-Fi.

When Windows Vista ships next year, customers might have a tougher time getting their security software to work properly, executives from Symantec said Wednesday.

Samsungtelecom.com, the Korean firm's Texas-based recruitment site, is accessible again after being down for almost two weeks following a hacker attack that resulted in the site's servers being used to host a password stealing Trojan.

Sprint Corp. yesterday announced a new suite of security services for its wireless users that includes authentication, threat protection and policy enforcement on smart phones from any wireless service provider.

Banks and other companies switching their phone systems to VOIP are making themselves vulnerable to phishing attacks for which there are currently no effective detection or prevention tools, a security researcher warned.

Kaspersky Lab released the Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 for Clearswift MIMESweeper for SMTP which provides high-speed antivirus scanning for all incoming SMTP traffic on servers that use MIMESweeper software.

An exploit discovered yesterday by security consultancy Sunbelt and verified by Microsoft this afternoon involving the Vector Markup Language library in Windows could potentially affect not only users of Internet Explorer, but also Office 2007 beta.

A security researcher claims it is possible to install malicious code on a user's computer through standard Adobe Reader features.

Hackers are taking advantage of a newly discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer to install spyware on PCs that visit a number of Russian porn sites.

Security analysts have identified a new worm known as Win32.Pipeline that is propagating over AOL Instant Messenger.