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Hackers Claim Breach Of Norton Antivirus Source Code; Experts Say Claims Are Exaggerated

    January 07, 2012
Symantec says hackers' disclosure of old Norton Antivirus source code poses "no threat" to the security of its AV products or their customers

Panda Releases New Beta Of Award-Winning Panda Cloud Office Protection

    December 27, 2011
New version includes device control technologies and improved protection against new and unknown threats

Panda Security Launches Beta Version of Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0, Announces Beta Tester Challenge

    December 21, 2011
New version includes device control technologies and improved protection against new and unknown threats

AVG Technologies Acquires Bsecure Technologies

    December 06, 2011
Bsecure provides cloud-based technology

Norman Q3 Security Update Shows Significant Drop In FakeAV

    November 29, 2011
Zbot and SpyEye families also down

Check Point Announces ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 2012

    November 10, 2011
ZoneAlarm blocks hackers and prevents viruses and spyware that by-pass antivirus software

Trend Micro Reports Third Quarter 2011 Results

    November 09, 2011
Trend Micro posted consolidated net sales of US$308 million

Symantec Reports Record Second Quarter Fiscal 2012 Results

    October 26, 2011
GAAP revenue of $1.681 billion, up 14%

Norton 360 Version 6.0 Public Beta Now Available

    October 10, 2011
Beta is available for free download

Kaspersky Lab Launches Endpoint Security 8 For Windows

    October 07, 2011
Solution includes enhanced, multilayer, anti-malware protection

GFI Software Launches VIPRE Antivirus Business 5.0 And GFI VIPRE Business Premium 5.0

    October 05, 2011
Enhancements include incompatible software removal tool and automatic Windows Firewall configuration

New Norton Anti-Theft To Protect Lost Or Stolen Laptops, Smartphones, And Tablets

    October 04, 2011
Cloud-based service enables consumers to better protect their property and personal information

Kaspersky Lab Announces Kaspersky ONE

    September 20, 2011
'Universal Security' solution ensures protection across a wide selection of platforms and devices

Windows 8 To Come With AV Baked In

    September 14, 2011
Microsoft will knit its Microsoft Security Essentials into the next-generation Windows OS

Norton Launches 2012 Products, Extends "Norton Everywhere" Initiative

    September 07, 2011
Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security 2012 among new offerings

Juniper Networks Releases Cloud/Virtual Security Gateway

    September 02, 2011
vGW 5.0 includes new functionalities that provide virtualization-specific antivirus (AV) protections and continuous monitoring

AVG Launches Internet Security 2012

    September 01, 2011
AVG Internet Security 2012 comes with the new AVG Accelerator and AVG Advice features

Panda Security Launches Beta of Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro With Firewall

    August 30, 2011
Latest beta release of cloud anti-virus service now features a full-fledged community-based firewall

Trend Micro Reports Second Quarter Results

    August 11, 2011
For the second quarter, Trend Micro posted consolidated net sales of US $297 million

70 Percent Of Infected Consumer Machines Hit With Multiple Malware Types

    August 09, 2011
New Sourcefire Immunet and ClamAV data provides snapshot of consumer malware threats

Google Researcher Dissects Sophos Antivirus Software

    August 09, 2011
AV products don't provide sufficient technical details on how their products work, researcher says at Black Hat USA

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 For Mac Is Fully Compatible With New Mac OS X Lion

    August 02, 2011
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 for Mac users will have already received an automatic update

Google Tries Flagging Malware For Users

    July 20, 2011
Google earch engine will warn users if it detects a specific infection on their machines

Sophos Anti-Virus For Mac Supports Newly Released OS X Lion

    July 20, 2011
The solution detects both Mac and Windows malware

Kaspersky Lab Appoints New Board Of Directors

    July 18, 2011
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, was appointed chairman of the board

ID Watchdog And AVAST Software Launch Integrated Identity Protection Suite

    July 05, 2011
Announces availability of latest consumer identity theft detection feature set

Avira Adds WebGuard Protection To Free Antivirus Software During Service Pack 2

    June 28, 2011
WebGuard component acts as a proxy to prevent customers from downloading malicious code

Chinese Internet Users To Be Protected With Avira's Antivirus Engine

    June 24, 2011
Avira announces strategic partnership with Chinese Internet giant Tencent

Panda Security Launches Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.5

    June 20, 2011
New release includes performance improvements as well as new features suggested by the product’s user community

Panda Security Launches Its 2012 Consumer Solutions

    June 02, 2011
Solutions are available for online purchase from June

Panda Security Releases New Beta Of Panda Cloud Antivirus

    May 24, 2011
1.9 beta version delivers all of the features of the PRO paid version

Free Tool From G Data Cleans Fake Antivirus Scareware

    May 16, 2011
G Data FakeAVCleaner removes programs from systems

Updata Partners To Buy CA Technologies Internet Security Business Unit

    May 13, 2011
Transaction does not affect CA Technologies enterprise security business

Panda Internet Security 2011 Certified by AV-Test.org With 100% Malware Detection Rate

    May 05, 2011
The AV-Test protection tests covered static and dynamic malware detection, including real-world zero-day attacks

Norton Launches Cybersecurity Institute

    May 04, 2011
Norton Cybersecurity Institute is a collaboration among law enforcement, consumer safety groups, and Norton

Symantec Introduces New Security Solutions To Counter Advanced Persistent Threats

    May 04, 2011
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 and Symantec Protection Center 2.0 to combat the volume and complexity of cyberattacks in traditional and virtual environments

Dasient Names Harnish Patel Vice President Of Sales

    April 29, 2011
Harnish comes to Dasient from McAfee

Managing Your Company's Cyber Risk: Antivirus Software And Endpoint Protection

    April 25, 2011
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 is designed to stop mutating threats without slowing you down

Norton Survey Shows Royal Wedding Crowds Spilling Onto Cyber Streets

    April 18, 2011
Royal wedding bells may mean warning bells for users, security firm says

Norton Internet Security And Norton AntiVirus 2012 Public Betas Now Available

    April 15, 2011
Betas include key security enhancements

Videos, Installers, KeyGens, And Social Media Most Popular Attack Bait

    April 01, 2011
The most frequently blocked website in Q1 2011 was a Brazilian site offering a video of the Japanese tsunami disaster

Microsoft, Feds Knock Rustock Botnet Offline

    March 18, 2011
Authorities confiscated equipment from seven Internet hosting facilities used by Rustock, which was responsible for much of the Viagra email spam on the Internet

Blue Coat Adds Support For Trend Micro Anti-Virus Engine On ProxyAV Appliances

    March 01, 2011
ProxyAV can analyze up to 99 layers of compressed archives and scan files up to 2 GB in size

Intel Completes McAfee Acquisition

    February 28, 2011
McAfee will continue developing and selling security products and services under its own brand

Users Of Android Phones Warned Of Hong Tou Tou

    February 22, 2011
NetQin spots new virus in China

AVG Launches Online Security Audit, The Latest Weapon In War Against SMB Cybercrime

    February 16, 2011
Free audit will provide businesses with tailored reports on their security needs

Silicium Security Launches Enterprise Signature-Less Malware Detection System

    February 15, 2011
ECAT originally developed for national government security agencies

Panda Security Launches Panda Antivirus For Mac Corporate Edition

    February 09, 2011
New solution protects against all threats for Mac OS X and Windows in Mac desktops, laptops and servers

Source Code From Older Kaspersky AV Products Posted On Web

    February 01, 2011
Kaspersky says published antivirus source code is only a "fragment" of an older version, and had been disclosed previously

Lab Discovers 50 Millionth Virus

    January 27, 2011
AV-Test's malware repository numbers illustrate malware explosion










Bugs
ENTERPRISE VULNERABILITIES
Vulnerability:ssl-vpn end-point interrogator/installer activex control
Published:2010-11-03
Severity:High
Description:Stack-based buffer overflow in SonicWALL SSL-VPN End-Point Interrogator/Installer ActiveX control (Aventail.EPInstaller) before 10.5.2 and 10.0.5 hotfix 3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long (1) CabURL and (2) Location arguments to the Install3rdPartyComponent method.
Vulnerability:gvim
Published:2010-11-03
Severity:High
Description:Untrusted search path vulnerability in VIM Development Group GVim before 7.3.034, and possibly other versions before 7.3.46, allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse User32.dll or other DLL that is located in the same folder as a .TXT file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Vulnerability:cforms
Published:2010-11-03
Severity:Medium
Description:Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-content/plugins/cforms/lib_ajax.php in cforms WordPress plugin 11.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) rs and (2) rsargs[] parameters.
Vulnerability:links, wsn links, wsn links
Published:2010-11-03
Severity:High
Description:Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in search.php in WSN Links 5.0.x before 5.0.81, 5.1.x before 5.1.51, and 6.0.x before 6.0.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) namecondition or (2) namesearch parameter.
Vulnerability:deluxebb
Published:2010-11-03
Severity:Medium
Description:SQL injection vulnerability in misc.php in DeluxeBB 1.3, and possibly earlier, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the xthedateformat parameter in a register action, a different vector than CVE-2005-2989, CVE-2006-2503, and CVE-2009-1033.



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