Our Internet Security 2011 Beta is now available for download.

Beta testers receive a six month subscription and the opportunity to influence the final release.

You might remember the Ghostnet white paper that was released a year ago? We blogged about it extensively.

The same researchers, with the help of Shadowserver Foundation, has now published a new whitepaper, called Shadows In The Cloud: Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0 (link to a PDF).

Why is it that banking trojans are a problem when all online banks are HTTPS secured and many of them employ multi-factor authentication?

The answer: Humans are not digital.

One thing that I have always found fascinating about Japan is definitely its rich and unique culture. However, there is just one other thing — vending machines. You not only find them everywhere, you can buy all sorts of things, including adult movies, from them (except for a security product, but that's probably just a matter of time).

The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization finished up its meeting in Budapest, Hungary this week. PC Tools was in attendance at this meeting as well, seeing three new papers passed and contributing to others in progress.

We’ve been hearing a lot about cloud computing lately. Seems like just about anything you can tuck away into the clouds gets better, or so the story goes, since it allows everyone to access it from anywhere and harness the power of humongous databases full of useful information, among other benefits. Sure enough, the recent RSA conference had its fair share of hype on cloud computing and it has been mentioned to do everything from change security as we know it to solving the imminent swine flu pandemic.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about Cloud Computing lately. It is shaping up to be one of the "next big things" that we are all going to be hearing a lot about over the next couple of years