Security vendor Avast has introduced Bug bounty program to find issues in their product Avast free antivirus, Avast Pro antivirus and Avast Internet Security and report -who reports the bug in latest shipped versions gets reward starting from $200 to
Version 2.0 for GMER, free rootkits detector and remover has been released and available for download from its website. GMER v 2.0 has added support for Windows 8 and 64-bit Windows. And other notable additions are Traces I/O function and
Yahoo mail, third-largest email service provider finally has got support for HTTPS, not enabled by default though. Google, Microsoft already offers full session HTTPS support by default for their Gmail and Hotmail services, now Yahoo joined them. Yahoo offers automatic
Red October, highest cyber-espionage campaign going from over five years has gone unnoticed till security researchers at Kaspersky antivirus discovered this malware by then it already infected diplomatic, governmental and scientific research organization computer networks. Mean while security vendor Bitdefender
Latest Google Chrome 26 dev. channel sports new UI style for Chrome menu with white background color and it has also grown bigger in size and context menu gets coat of white paint too. Get ready for two significant(?) UI
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall version 11 for 2013 which we’ve covered back in November 2012 got the first update in new year which has added two new features:Facebook Privacy scan and Do Not Track. This version has also added support for
Piriform’s Cleaning tool now cleans both cache and history of Internet Explorer 10 offered in modern mode. CCleaner already supports Windows 8 fully but doesn’t yet got the capabilities to clear history of Windows 8 apps, anyway with the latest
Chrome history page got “Group domains” option on top-right side of page (not enabled by default though), when you tick the checkbox next to it, your browsing history of visits to the same domain will be grouped and shown. You
Mozilla has decided to give more control to the user by forcing click to play plugins enabled by default even for all versions of all plugins (those including the current ones) except for current version of Flash. Till now Mozilla
Google is enhancing the security for Search in Chrome by sending the searches from address bar over SSL for not-signed in users where till yesterday this encryption being offered to signed-in users only, now Google has turned on SSL protection
The ComboFix tool from BleepingComputer.com which supposed to remove viruses and other threats has been badly infected with Sality virus. Bleeping Computer acknowledged this and asking affected users who used their tool recently to scan with virus scanner and lists
It seems Internet Explorer 10 final for Windows 7 is imminent as today Microsoft made IE10 Automatic Update Blocker Toolkit available for Windows 7 on their Download center for download. This toolkit is aimed for organizations which wants to prevent