PC Tools, the team which develops Spyware Doctor is scheduling to release free editions of its security software PC Tools Firewall Plus and PC Tools AntiVirus in a bid to, well, release some free software.

With Version 6.0 of its remote access system, Citrix introduces new features and cuts down prices.Citrix released a new version of its online remote-working system, GoToMyPC, and slashed its price by more than half.

Botnet programs and other malicious software largely take aim at PCs running the Microsoft Windows operating system, because Windows’ ubiquity makes it fertile ground for network-based attacks.

Underground hackers are selling zero-day exploits for Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system at $50,000 a pop, according to computer security researchers at Trend Micro.

The Windows Vista exploit—which has not been separately verified—was just one of many zero-days available for sale at an auction-style market broken into by the Tokyo-based anti-virus vendor.

Microsoft has just released a new report on mobile security called Windows Mobile Powered Devices and Security Features: Helping Protect Sensitive Business Information.
Quoting from this report :
Mobile devices, which can offer the benefits of improved employee productivity, can also potentially represent security risks. These devices often store large amounts of sensitive data, which could cause harm if accessed by unauthorized users.

Adware developers are probable to target the latest version of Internet Explorer with rising frequency in 2007, provoking a threat to user productivity, according to the Trend Micro chief technology officer for anti-spyware, Ed English.

Although Vista's included e-mail client blocked all 10 malware emails present on November's list of most common threats, three got around Vista's built-in resistance when a third-party e-mail client was deployed.

As Microsoft advertized Windows Vista's enhanced security at the operating system's U.S. launch on Thursday, one security vendor said that a third of the month's top 10 exploits can effectively infect a Vista-equipped PC.

Symantec on Monday offered public beta versions of Norton Internet Security 2007 and Norton AntiVirus 2007 for Microsoft's imminent Windows Vista.

Efforts to eliminate piracy have been with computers since it became possible to make a copy of a program and run it on another computer successfully. Anti-piracy software, code wheels, license keys, hardware dongles and more all failed in some way, either through the use of a master key code, a crack that changed trial software into the full version, eliminated the check for dongles, or somehow picked the lock of anti-protections.

IT security vendor, Sophos, has presented a new version of Sophos Anti-Virus which supports the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, including the much debated Patchguard kernel locker.