Security vendors news from FierceCIO

You may have ducked the worst of the hack attacks this year, but slicker, more menacing forms of cybercrime are on their way to your systems. In its 2009 annual security report, Cisco systems warns... Read more...

A serious security flaw has been discovered in the SSL protocol, commonly used to encrypt web pages in order to secure online transactions against eavesdropping or interception. The problem was... Read more...

Security vendor Symantec did a study of 250 fake security programs and concluded in a report that the software known as "SpywareGuard" and "AntiVirus" were the top two such software around. We ran a... Read more...

Microsoft has stepped forward in defense of its newly released Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), which has come under criticism from various security vendors. Of course, the fact that security... Read more...

An entire business ecosystem has sprung up to promote the proliferation of rogue software, as well as pharmaceuticals and counterfeit brand-name goods. In fact, Russian cyber gangs have even set up... 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...

Hackers are getting more sophisticated and dangerous. Security vendor Websense reports that as many as 40,000 websites have been hacked in order to redirect victims to another website that tries to... Read more...

A report published by security vendor Symantec has bestowed the dubious honor, of having the highest spam level to Hong Kong. Its amount of email spam has apparently grown by 2.4 percent to reach... Read more...

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for the month of May is next week, and with just one security bulletin, it appears to be a much easier month for security and system administrators. IT departments should... Read more...

In an unusual move, security vendors have come forward to offer assurances to users or administrators worried about the Conficker worm head of April 1. This is the date which the Conficker is... Read more...