RSA Shuts Down More Than 500,000 Cyber Attacks Across 185 Countries

Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – Now in its seventh year operating one of the world’s foremost commercial online anti-fraud services, RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC – News), today announced that its RSA FraudAction(SM) anti- …


We have a Anti virus program trying to start on our computer, other than McAfee Security Center, how do delete?

Alpha Anti virus is trying to install on my system when I already have McAfee Security. How do we delete this new program?


More than 26,000 new citizen registrations for Nixle alerts in times of crisis

Top Priority Sector:  disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Nixle, LLC, a free provider of informational communication services between government agencies and the communities they serve, received 26,000 new citizen subscribers during two recent natural disasters — Hurricane Irene and the massive Texas wildfires, Nixle said in a Sept. 15 news release. In areas affected by these catastrophes, agencies using [...]


If I change my anti-virus and other computer security to something other than what I have,?

do I remove the old first, or download the new before removing the old.


Why the password “this is fun” is 10 times more secure than “J4fS!2″

Security companies and IT people constantly tells us that we should use complex and difficult passwords. This is bad advice, because you can actually make usable, easy to remember and highly secure passwords. In fact, usable passwords are often far better than complex ones. So let’s dive into the world of passwords, and look at [...]


Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ (Derrick Harris/GigaOM)

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’  —  According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to “a fate worse than death,” and the only way out is “bite the bullet and rewrite everything.”


is it bad to have more than one security program on my computer?

this is my dads computer. its has 3gigs of ram and nearly 200gigs of memory..its slow as fuck! one thing i noticed is it has like 4 or 5 different security programs. could this be the cause of it being slow?


APWG Report: More than One Third of Web Host Victims Repeatedly Exploited By Cybercrime Gangs – Yahoo Finance

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is reporting this week that more than one-third of respondents to a new Web Vulnerabilities Survey were repeat victims of phishing attacks that resulted in a successful establishment of …


Internet users now have more and closer friends than those offline (Casey Johnston/Ars Technica)

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:Internet users now have more and closer friends than those offline  —  Have a computer, Internet connection, and no Facebook profile?  Now you’re the weirdo outcast.  In a new study done by the Pew Research Center, collections of data from thousands of participants showed that people …


Does anyone know of a better Anti-virus software than Norton Internet Security?

Norton Internet Security dramatically effects the speed and performance of my computer. Does anyone know of an anti-virus software that is just as good or better than Norton that won’t negatively effect the speed and performance of my computer? One person told me about a program called Kaspersky but I don’t know anything about it. [...]