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In 2008, antivirus firm Sophos processed about 20,000 “new” pieces of malware every day.

Earlier this week I wrote in Tech Watch about a whole new class of Windows zero-day vulnerabilities, warning that a wave of attacks would arrive soon.

I’m still reeling over Intel’s offer to buy McAfee at a 60 percent premium over its stock price.

A majority of security software suites still fail to detect attacks on PCs even after the style of attack has been known for some time, underscoring how cyber criminals still have the upper hand.

As anticipated, Microsoft this week released its out-of-band patch for the zero-day LNK (and PIF) file security hole that

Remember the Windows shortcut zero-day security hole?

An antivirus company based in Belarus called VirusBlokAda claims that its researchers have discovered two malicious files, c

High brand visibility from large security vendors doesn’t necessarily mean that their products dominate the market, according to a new study of security software.

The study was released Wednesday by Opswat, whose primary product, Oesis, is a development toolkit used to manage third-party security applications.

New research has further confirmed the difficulties security software companies are having keeping up with an explosion in malicious software programs on the Internet.

It used to be a luxury to own a smartphone. Now everyone seems to have one, and can’t seem to do their jobs without it.

Microsoft frequently draws the ire of hapless users when it incapacitates unsuspecting customers’ PCs with bad security updates.

A just-published attack tactic that bypasses the security protections of most current anti-virus software is a “very serious” problem, an executive at one unaffected company said today.

Gripe Line reader Sigurd wrote in with suspicions of a bait and switch being perpetrated by software vendor ZoneAlarm. “I ordered a renewal of ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite online,” he said. “I chose a two-year subscription and was offered the price of $69.95.” On the next screen, Sigurd requested a CD of the product for $9.95, declined the offer of extended support, and entered his credit card information. But when he got to the final checkout, the price for his subscription had jumped to $79.95.

Fake anti-virus software is becoming more prevalent on the Internet, with its creators using clever methods to fool users into installing the programs, according to a new report from Google.

McAfee announced it would offer business customers affected by last week’s flawed update a free one-year subscription to its automated security assessment service.

McAfee will reimburse its consumer customers for “reasonable expenses” they have incurred dealing with last week’s faulty anti-virus update, the company said.

Thanks for proving my fears well founded, McAfee.

A while ago, I wrote a piece about not trusting the cloud for a variety of reasons, predominately security and the potential for a third party to ruin my company whether it meant to or not. McAfee’s massive blunder last week provided a case in point for that argument.

McAfee apologized late Thursday for crippling thousands of customers’ computer with a flawed update the day before.

After distributing a buggy antivirus update that apparently disabled hundreds of thousands of computers on Wednesday, McAfee is still at a loss to explain exactly what happened.

A flawed McAfee anti-virus update sent enterprise administrators scrambling today as the new signatures quarantined a crucial Windows system file, crippling an unknown number of Windows XP computers, according to messages on the company’s support forum.

The forum has since gone offline.