Dan Kaplan

Mozilla Firefox and Opera released new versions of their web browsers last week to introduce new security features and patch a number of vulnerabilities.

Around 140,000 Macs remain infected with the Flashback Trojan.

The Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS), the Budapest, Hungary-based research lab responsible for detecting the Duqu trojan, has released an open source detector toolkit to assist in finding traces of the trojan on a computer or in a whole network.

A new Mac OS X trojan being distributed on torrent sites like Paratypic aims to steal Bitcoin virtual currency, security researchers are warning.

Researchers have discovered a way to evade Facebook security controls to deliver a message on the social networking site that contains an executable file.

Microsoft is breaking out the piggy bank to incentivize researchers to develop advanced technologies to defend Windows and the applications that run on top of the world's most popular operating system.

Microsoft plans to release eight patches on Tuesday - six for "critical" vulnerabilities - as part of its monthly security update.

Apple has taken down its recommendation that Mac OS X users deploy anti-virus technology.

Apple, whose market share is growing among computer users, is now recommending that consumers consider applying anti-virus protection to their machines.

Adobe has updated its Reader and Acrobat products to shore up a major vulnerability that is already being exploited in the wild