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  • Investment boost for Quick Heal

    Indian security firm gets hefty cash injection. Indian computer security firm Quick Heal has received a INR 60 crore (approximately US$12.7 million) cash injection from venture capital firm Sequoia Capital . Quick Heal , whose range of anti-malware products have been appearing in VB ‘s VB100 reviews with a very decent track record since 2002,…

  • 41% of spam sent via Rustock botnet

    Botnet spam back after short summer break. In its latest intelligence report, security firm MessageLabs reports that 41% of all spam is being sent through the Rustock botnet, an increase of 9% since April. The botnet sends an estimated 32 million spam emails per minute. Interestingly, the number of bots controlled by Rustock’s botherders has…

  • Avast gets $100m investment boost

    Growth equity firm invests in Czech firm Avast Software , the Czech anti-malware firm famous for its free avast! software, has announced that growth equity investor Summit Partners has invested $100 million for a minority stake in the company. The Czech security company has been in business since 1991, recently changing its name from Alwil…

  • Computer chip giant buys AV giant

    Intel becomes new owner of McAfee for the princely sum of $7.8bn Intel , the world’s biggest manufacturer of computer chips, is poised to acquire security giant McAfee – one of the ‘big four’ anti-malware vendors – in a deal worth $7.8 billion, the company’s biggest acquisition in its history. Under the terms of the…

  • AV-Test.org issues latest round of testing results

    Symantec and Microsoft outdo Trend and McAfee in live tests. Independent testing organisation AV-Test.org has released its latest round of test results in a simplified format, providing at-a-glance details of performance in a series of tests aimed at mimicking real-world situations. Testing covered a wide range of criteria, all run in a fully connected and…

  • A third of anti-malware products fail to secure Vista Business Edition, Virus Bulletin reveals

    VB urges industry to work harder at quality assurance. Virus Bulletin has revealed that, out of 54 anti-malware products tested, 19 failed to reach the standard required for VB100 certification in its recent test on Windows Vista Business Edition SP2 . Stumbling blocks for the products in this test included failure to detect a number…

  • Extra-large crop of updates for Patch Tuesday

    Fourteen security alerts from Microsoft join two from Adobe. Microsoft ‘s monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletins came out this week, featuring a chunky 14 separate alerts with many covering multiple issues. Eight of the new alerts were rated ‘Critical’, with the remaining six marked as ‘Important’. In addition to Microsoft ‘s updates, Adobe also released…

  • Android SMS trojan goes wild

    Premium-rate text scam shows growing cracks in smart phone security. The first known SMS trojan affecting smart phones running Google ‘s Android operating system has been observed in the wild, highlighting growing cracks in the security veneer of the latest range of glossy smart phones. The trojan was first identified by researchers at Kaspersky Lab…

  • Firefox 4 crack spreads trojan

    ‘Cracked’ versions of free software used to spread malware In a new malware campaign, users are told they can download a free crack of the Firefox 4 browser, only to find themselves infected with trojans. The lure of ‘free’ has made many a user browse the more dodgy parts of the internet, where crooks are…

  • Microsoft sues alleged spammer for gaming Hotmail’s spam filter

    Messages marked as ‘not spam’ from phony web mail accounts. Connecticut spammer Boris Mizhen and several companies controlled by him have been sued by Microsoft for sending unwanted email to its customers and for gaming spam filters. Mizhen has a long history as a spammer. For years he was listed in Spamhaus ‘s ROKSO list…