Posts under Security category

Australia To Investigate Google For Privacy Violations

By AnandKhanse@TWC | June 6, 2010

Australia announced a police investigation Sunday into whether Google illegally collected private information from wireless networks, becoming at least the second country to probe the Internet giant’s “Street View” mapping service.

Mac spyware infiltrates Softpedia, MacUpdate and VersionTracker

By AnandKhanse@TWC | June 2, 2010

Intego, a leading security software provider for Mac, has discovered a spyware application that is installed by a number of freely distributed Mac applications and screen savers found on a variety of websites.

Google to phase out Windows on security concerns

By AnandKhanse@TWC | June 1, 2010

Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.

Iranian Cyber Army Hacks Baidu !

By AnandKhanse@TWC | January 18, 2010

The most popular Web search engine in China, Baidu.com, was attacked by a group of hacktivists identifying themselves as the Iranian Cyber Army. The hackers hijacked the domain’s DNS records and pointed it to a server under their control.

After RealPlayer, Avast & AdAware to bundle Chrome browser.

By AnandKhanse@TWC | December 7, 2009

Google’s nascent browser has paired with one of the most popular free security programs in the world so that when users run the Avast installer on a computer that has neither Chrome nor Avast, they’ll be offered a chance to […]

Mac Security Guru: Snow Leopard less secure than Windows !

By AnandKhanse@TWC | September 16, 2009

Snow Leopard lacks security features that are built in to Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, a noted Mac researcher has said.

Snow Leopard to include an Antivirus!

By AnandKhanse@TWC | August 26, 2009

Mac users may be happy to know that they will now no longer have to resort to using 3rd party antivirus solutions to protect their Mac from the increasing onslaught of malware, in recent times.

Mac malware poses as Foxit reader.

By AnandKhanse@TWC | August 26, 2009

Foxit Corporation, a leader of secure mobile/desktop PDF solutions, is encouraging its users to be alert to pirated software malware attacks that claim to be Foxit Reader for Macintosh.

Mac OS X gets a rootkit manual

By AnandKhanse@TWC | July 21, 2009

Over the past decade, the world has seen advances in rootkits running on Windows and Unix operating systems that few would have thought possible.

Microsoft Security Essentials ranked No 2 out of 25!

By AnandKhanse@TWC | July 14, 2009

Just how good is your AntiVirus software at detecting malware in the wild? In a study titled Most Effective Antivirus Tools Against New Malware Binaries, SRI International suggests that the Microsoft AV may actually be very good.

Secunia rates Firefox as most vulnerable browser

By AnandKhanse@TWC | April 17, 2009

Secunia is reporting that Firefox is the most vulnerable web browser that is widely adopted on the market today.