If you are like me, you find it very annoying to be required to frequently change your password for your computer or for an online application. However, it is a simple way to limit your exposure to identity theft and financial fraud. And it is more important to do than ever....
Comodo announced this week the latest addition to its portfolio of endpoint security products, Comodo SecureBox. SecureBox is a secure desktop application that enables users to safely interact with mission-critical applications on malware-infected devices, such as company co...
A researcher at the Singapore security firm COSEINC, Joxean Koret, is all over the technical news sites. He is being quoted almost everywhere, including on ComputerWorld and Inquire in the UK, about assertions that all of the major antivirus programs are vulnerable to attack...
Summer may be hard upon us, especially here in the very steamy New York area, but it is not too early to prepare for sending kids back to school. In fact, my daughter will return to College and my son will return to High School in just a month and we just did our back to sch...
When I read about hackers and cyber criminals I often think of the old TV show Get Smart. After vanquishing a villain, Agent Maxwell Smart would often recite a lament that typically went “If only he had used his genius for good and niceness instead of evil.” If o...
The Mozilla has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in their Firefox browser, including 11 critical fixes. Among the critical fixes is for a “use after free” bug. This is where a program referencing memory after it has been freed. This c...
If you would really like to be infected by malware, the best place to go these days is amazon.com! According to a quarterly report for Q2 2014 by Solutionary’s Security Expert Research Team (SERT), Amazon hosts 41% of all malware identified by SERT’s honeynet. A honeynet is...
We are now more than half way through 2014 and Comodo finds itself in a familiar place in the ongoing Proactive Internet Challenge, conducted by Matousec.com. As has been the case for almost 2 ½ years, Comodo Internet Security tops there results chart of 38 Internet Security...
Microsoft has released a security advisory to address improperly issued SSL certificates that could be used in attempts to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks. This issue affects all supported releases of Microsoft Windows. Windows X...
In the latest report by netmarketshare.com, the supposedly dead Windows XP actually increased its market share of desktop operating systems slightly, with a 25.3% share. That makes it the second most popular desktop OS by a wide margin, behind Windows 7 at 50.5% and ahead of...
