Software giant will share vulnerability data early with third parties, create ‘Exploitability Index’ for newly found flaws

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A new kind of malicious software could pose a danger to Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks.

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This is bad news for all eleven Safari-on-Windows users… Apple’s been making hay in its Mac vs. PC ads about Windows’ security and malware problems. But now that Apple’s playing in Microsoft’s sandbox with a Windows version of the Safari Web browser, the worm has turned.
The Windows version of Safari has a bug that’s been [...]

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In privacy debates about online advertising, the focus is most often on consumers. Consumers love free content, the advertisers and ad networks say. They say consumers are willing to have their online activities analyzed and categorized, because an ad for a minivan that lands in front of a soccer mom is valuable, and valuable ads [...]

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It can be argued that the main purpose for computer systems is fast and reliable communication from one system to another. How is that accomplished? What allows a computer running an English operating system to communicate with one running a Russian operating system? Both have different human readable alphabets. Both have different character representations for [...]

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Search engine exeLibrary demystifies the EXEs running in your Task Manager to help you get to the bottom of whether or not that cryptic process actually needs to be running (and whether or not it’s malware). Just search any process when you’re unclear of its purpose in exeLibrary, and it’ll give you a detailed description [...]

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