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Many small businesses are moving toward the Mac platform, and it's about more than simply having cool, sleek computers sitting on desks.

For many companies, off-the-shelf security software is the main defense against online threats. We set up a dummy laptop and visited sites known for doling out malware and viruses to see how the following programs performed.

Experts from leading security companies are saying that the Stuxnet worm is so sophisticated that it could have been a state-sponsored project and certainly not the work of a lone hacker.

Your child may be giving out too much personal information - learn what to watch for

At the Kiev offices of Innovative Marketing Ukraine, hundreds of programmers, translators and database engineers created a software product that made the company a world leader — an exceptional achievement in the impoverished former Soviet republic. But the way the company made its multimillion-dollar profits is nothing to celebrate, according to the criminal charges its owners now face in a district court in Chicago.

The social web is not just a model of our world, but an indelible and growing part of it. People correspond, they do business, and just like in the real world, they have addresses, and mailboxes. And in today’s pervasive and immersive online environment, it's almost impossible to be completely anonymous.

Trend Micro is expanding its "Worry-Free" promise of safer, smarter, simpler security through a subscription-based, hosted service solution designed to allow small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) to be always connected and protected. The services are part of both the Trend Micro Worry-Free family and its hosted security portfolio. The company said they are designed to help alleviate some of the cost, margin and product-reliability challenges channel partners face, particularly in challenging

Hosted-e-mail security firms are leading the SaaS market thanks to ease of implementation and other benefits. Still, these services are not without risks. In this Dark Reading report, we discuss how to determine what mix of in-house and hosted mail makes sense for your organization.

A year ago today, the Internet community witnessed a remarkable event: The unplugging of McColo, a Web hosting facility in Northern California that for a long time controlled a majority of the spam-sending operations on the planet. McColo's two main Internet providers abruptly yanked the cord after Security Fix presented them with scads of evidence collected by security researchers tying massive amounts of spam and other illicit activity to McColo's network.

Facebook is no longer alone in its troubles. Twitter is also becoming a target of phishers. The last few days have seen a slew of Twitter phishing attacks, possibly orchestrated in a chess-like multi-move plan that resulted in three sets of victims and, very likely, some seedy profits.