Ryan Naraine

With the clock ticking on a Feb. 3 D-Day for the activation of the destructive 'Blackworm' worm payload, anti-virus vendors are rushing to release free

Marc Maiffret is a worried man. The chief hacking officer and co-founder of eEye Digital Security looks at the rising popularity of hosted Web

Symantec Corp. has fessed up to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place

Anti-virus security vendor McAfee Inc. announced Tuesday the sudden departure of its president, Gene Hodges. Hodges, an 11-year McAfee veteran who was

The legal battle against adware and spyware programs has taken a new turn with a pair of putative class action complaints against Direct Revenue and

LAS VEGAS—Rootkits. Zero-day exploits. Social engineering. Encryption cracking. Cryptography. File format fuzzing. Kernel exploitation. These are

Enterprise software giant Oracle has released a fix for an incomplete database server patch after a private security research outfit discovered that the

As volunteer director of the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, Marcus Sachs has an eagle-eyed view of Internet security, tracking cyber-threats in

Microsoft on Tuesday released 10 advisories to cover a slew of security flaws in a range of products, including a "critical" cumulative update for the

Apple has rolled out a security update to correct nine potentially serious vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X operating system. The update, which carries a

If evidence were needed that the new browser war will be won or lost on the security message, along comes the Mozilla Foundation with public confirmation.

SAN FRANCISCO—After months of hemming and hawing on plans for a standalone Internet Explorer upgrade before Longhorn, Microsoft Corp. now plans to