Malware news from FierceCIO

Microsoft has capped the number of downloads for the beta of Windows Security Essentials (MSE) to just 75,000, said a Microsoft spokeswoman on Monday. As we reported earlier, MSE is the replacement... Read more...

Microsoft Security Essentials, the beta version of Microsoft's new security software, will be available for download today. Designated as a follow-up to Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Security... Read more...

Microsoft will be launching the beta version of its free antivirus software for PCs "soon," according to eWeek. Code-named Morro, the application will eventually find its way to Microsoft's Website... Read more...

Twitter users are battling a new hack attack, which appears to be scarier and more complex than previous attacks. In this case, the hackers used "scareware," fake security software that, once... Read more...

You might have read an earlier report on how the persistent and widespread Conficker worm has found its way onto medical devices. Researcher Rodney Joffe told a panel of the House Energy and Commerce... Read more...

Panda Security pulled the wraps off the beta of its new cloud-based antivirus solution mid-week. Panda Cloud Antivirus relies on a server-architecture to process and block malware, with only a... Read more...

Paul Cooke, director of Windows 7 client enterprise security, has stepped forward to promise that Windows 7 will feature fewer alerts originating from User Account Control. UAC was designed to... Read more...

The latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report has found a huge increase in the number of security vulnerabilities discovered in software as well as instances of Internet threats. Internet... Read more...

Researchers based at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto have uncovered a vast electronic spying operation that they say has infiltrated at least 1,295 computers... Read more...

A new piece of malware is making its rounds, this time targeting consumer routers and DSL modems. First discovered by the folks behind the DroneBL DNS Blacklist services, Psybot ignores PCs and... Read more...