A simmering disagreement between the David and the Goliath of security developers, both of which are members of the Anti-Spyware Coalition, has reached a boil. The dispute prompts questions of how nicely two competitors should be expected to play with each other and whether your security software will continue to work together.
Opinion: Microsoft isn't the only one that can fix Microsoft software problems and the security industry deserves more than one entity driving fixes.
When your car breaks down, there are several avenues you can take to get it repaired: You can bring it to the dealer, you can go to an independent mechanic or you can repair it yourself.
Customers in all states except New York receive up to $5,000 in identity theft coverage when they buy Internet Security Suite 2007 through a reseller or direct, a CA spokesman said.
Home and SOHO solution providers can offer customers insurance against identity theft and computer virus infections when they buy CA's Internet Security Suite 2007, released Wednesday.
Georgia Tech, BellSouth, Internet Security Systems Team Up For VoIP Security Research
ATLANTA, GA. The Georgia Tech Information Security Center, BellSouth and Internet Security Systems are forming a partnership to examine security issues with the ever-increasingly more popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.
The security company's twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report, found that 47 bugs in Firefox and 38 bugs in Internet Explorer had been discovered in the first six months of this year - up significantly from the 17 and 25 bugs found respectively in the previous six months.
Even Apple's Safari browser saw its bugs double, from six in the last half of 2005 to 12 in the first half of 2006. Opera was the only browser tracked by Symantec that saw the number of vulnerabilities decline, but not by much. Its bugs dropped from nine to seven during the period.