New Research: IT Pros Sound Off On 2010 Security Concerns

Research from the enterprise security experts at Webroot With the explosion of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook in 2009, it’s no surprise cybercriminals have set their sights on these Web sites for new victims. Facebook now has over 400 million active users and Twitter has over six million — a sizeable pool of potential targets. [...]

A Look Back at the Worst Infections of 2009

By Andrew Brandt It’s not clear whether the past year will go down in history as a particularly bad year for malware, but one thing is certain: It was bad enough, at times, that fighting infections and cleaning PCs took priority over virtually all other work. Neither home users nor businesses were immune from wave [...]

Someone Confick-rolled the Internet

By Andrew Brandt Well, the big Conficker.c launch day is upon us and…nothing. So far, anyway. Someone should start selling “I blogged about Conficker and all I got was this lousy T-shirt” shirts. Cafepress, are you listening? We’ve been keeping to the back of the room about Conficker, not joining the rising hysteria chorus. It’s not that [...]

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