74 blog results for "spyware initiative"

Google follows Mozilla in launching program to pay researchers who find bugs, but critics say it won't necessarily pay off.

Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills

Exclusive to CNET Download.com, freeware security suite Avast 5 debuts today with several new features, but it's hard not to notice that the old interface has gone to wherever GUIs go when they die.

Posted in The Download Blog by Seth Rosenblatt

Microsoft warns about zero-day hole in Internet Explorer that was used in targeted attacks on Google and other U.S. companies, and which Google claims originated in China.

Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills

Members of the social network will get a free six-month subscription to McAfee's consumer-level security suite and a "cleaning" if their accounts are compromised.

Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy

Malware exploiting unpatched holes in software was used in attacks on Google and others in December and previous attack on U.S. companies last summer, expert says.

Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills

Lawsuit alleges that Sony, Toshiba, Lenovo, and others distributed millions of copies of pirated Web filtering software at the behest of the Chinese government.

Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills

Lookout offers data security, backup, and management over the Web and a way to locate and protect missing or stolen devices.

Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills

DNS servers resolve web address names to IP addresses that your computer can use, but problems with these servers may result in performance issues.

Posted in MacFixIt by Topher Kessler

Amid promises to "reinvent the Web," Opera unveiled Unite, a new beta feature, in its Web browser earlier this year. Now, Opera Unite comes as a standard browser feature starting with Opera 10.10.

Posted in The Download Blog by Seth Rosenblatt

Small and medium-size businesses, governments, and school districts are targets of online bank fraud involving malicious e-mails, key loggers, and money mules, FBI says.

Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills