Microsoft vs. McAfee: How free antivirus outperformed paid

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How effective is free antivirus software?

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Cyber criminals cash in on Korea clashes!!!!!!

Cyber criminals are already attempting to cash in on yesterday's clashes between North and South Korea, according to Trend Micro.

The security company reports that within several hours of the cross-border incident, search results related to the subject of the clash, had been poisoned by scammers

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Microsoft just doesn’t get it…. Security is about diversity

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Microsoft recently started installing its Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) free antivirus product via the Operating System update mechanism to computers which don’t already have an antivirus installed. Basically Microsoft is saying they are worried about the security of its users and they need to make sure they are protected. Perhaps Microsoft is trying to position itself as a provider of secure Operating Systems given the market perception of Linux, Apple and potentially Google as having more secure alternatives to Windows OS, but that’s a different story.

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Cyber crime: The rats that gain access by the click of a mouse

When Iran took the unusual step of announcing that its Bushehr nuclear power plant had been infected by a piece of malicious software,

Concern had been growing for months over the potential impact of Stuxnet, a new highly sophisticated computer worm that had been targeting the programs at the heart of core industrial operating systems around the world. What particularly worried the security community was that Stuxnet was the first example of a computer program designed to cause serious damage to the physical world.

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Nearly Two-Thirds Of Companies Have Been Breached In The Past Year, Study Says

IT security becoming a higher priority in many organizations, CompTIA reports

Sixty-three percent of U.S. organizations have experienced at least one security incident or breach during the past year, according to a new study released today.

Almost half of the breached organizations classified the situation as "serious" -- meaning there was a financial threat, potential damage to the organization's reputation, or other business-critical problem, according to the Computing Technology Industry Association's (CompTIA's) 8th Annual Global Security Trends Study.

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Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Release Candidate

Below the link for Microsoft Endpoint Protection 2010 Release Candidate ,

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ff182914.aspx