ScanSafe, the pioneer and leading provider of Web Security-as-a-Service today announced that for the second year in the row it has received the SC Magazine Europe 2008 award for ‘Best Content Security’ beating out finalists including MessageLabs, McAfee, Secure Computing and Websense.

IT security solutions provider GlobalSign announced on Monday it is including its SSL Secure Site Seal service for free with its range of SSL services.

GlobalSign SSL Secure Site Seals help websites educate their visitors on the security technology they employ to protect against phishing attacks and the compromise of personal information. Based on customer feedback, the company says it has made significant aesthetic enhancements to support multiple seal designs, sizes and formats.

More than 20,000 Web pages infected on hundreds of Web sites had been discovered by the researchers from the McAfee Inc. security company. It looks to be a coordinated effort run out of servers in China.

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.

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.

More than 3 million Web pages on the Internet are malicious. According to Neils Provos, senior staff software engineer with Google, the percent is one in 1,000.The experts call these attacks "drive-by downloads". Their number increased although through firewalls and better security practices, Microsoft succeeded in stopping the viruses or worms to directly attack PCs.

IBM released the findings of the 2007 X-Force Security report, detailing a disturbing rise in the sophistication of attacks by criminals on Web browsers worldwide. According to IBM, by attacking the browsers of computer users, cybercriminals are now stealing the identities and controlling the computers of consumers at a rate never before seen on the Internet.

A new project, Symantec Family Safety Initiative, was presented at the DEMO Conference, held in Palm Desert, Arizona. Symantec imagined a method to protect kids online: instead of offering ways to block certain Web sites or limiting access to pre-screened safe sites, it helps them in their regulation.

According to Sourcewire, ScanSafe, the global provider of Web Security-as-a-Service, has made public the availability of Anywhere+ which can be considered the first application in the world ever to function software -as-a-service (SaaS) Web security delivering real-time security against malware and enforcement of adequate Internet usage policies for all users surfing the Web no matter what their location is.

What is CAPTCHA? CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart and it is a system employed by Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and others, designed prevent automated systems that attempt to register web-based email accounts, or to dump spam and guessing passwords on blog comments sections.