The Haute Secure company offers a free online service that will help the consumers to detect and stop web hosted malware. Looks like the internet-borne computer code, created for stealing private information, will meet its end. A program is available  for downloading from Haute Secure's website. It works with a computer's internet browser to spot and cease the possible damaging computer code from a website.

Cisco Networks and Panorama Capital contributed to GridNetworks P2P start-up $9.5 million series A round of funding. GridNetworks  has taken a hybrid approach to delivering high-definition movies and TV shows over the Internet.

It uses both peer-to-peer technology, which leverages content distributed on users' computers all over the Internet as well as content delivery technology, which essentially caches and stores content in server farms throughout the Internet so it can be served up more quickly to geographically close clients.

The very popular  RealPlayer software is vulnerable to a heap corruption vulnerability that could put Windows users at risk of code execution Trojans , according to a warning from a security researcher.

According to security firm MessageLabs, the large number of spam coming from Gmail is the result of those spammers who have broken the captcha mechanism deployed by Gmail, mechanism designed to check if a person and not something else is opening an e-mail account.

Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter has created an Identity Theft Unit to further assist identity theft victims and to provide additional resources to local law enforcement authorities that investigate and prosecute the crime.  The Unit is prepared to assist victims as we recognize 10th Annual National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) March 2 – 8. 

Symantec Corp , makers of Norton security software, today announced the new Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for Mac, featuring vulnerability protection technology and antivirus for Mac users running Boot Camp or Windows virtualization software -- programs that allow users to run both Mac OS X Leopard and Windows operating systems.

The central database of a computer, also called the registry, has the capacity of accumulating a big amount of information, but it needs to be cleaned occasionally because unimportant data, stored along the time, can make the computer sluggish. 

When a small padlock appears in the corner of your Web browser's address bar or the entire bar turns green, it seems like a powerful signal you're safe to proceed.

Although it didn’t have many followers, the filtering over the Internet for discovering illegal file-swapping, is a way of stopping "digital piracy" by 70 percent, tells a study made by Wiggin UK media lawyers.

One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch' and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias 'sarge' the security support for the old distribution (3.1 alias 'sarge') is coming to an end next month.