Reading Time: 1 minute Open source software is great, especially the part about being able to use it without paying a license. The underlying source code is also made available for community development. Unfortunately, hackers can take advantage of it to make fake copies of popular software. This is called “trojanizaiton” The Filezilla project confirmed this week that fake…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Jean had a problem, she was managing over 200 endpoints and had no visual way to distinguish what devices were compliant, or even worse, had malware. To complicate matters, her current endpoint manager used antiquated black listing technology that left her vulnerable to zero-day threats and advanced persistent threats. Then it happened that an unsuspecting…

Reading Time: 4 minutes While other security companies and their users are still struggling to deal with the infamous ransomware Cryptolocker, we have no worries at Comodo.  In fact, if you use our Comodo Endpoint Security, with our unique Auto-Sandbox technology, you are already safe and secure from Cryptolocker 2.0 (officially entitled Prison Locker or Power Locker) and other soon-to-go-wild…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The recent data breach at the luxury specialty retailer Neiman Marcus has been overshadowed the mega data breach agt the retailing giant Target. However, it is nothing to sneeze at. With 1.1 million debit and credit cards compromised the consequences many be huge. While this pales in numbers to the Target breach, with an estimated…

Reading Time: 2 minutes What do you do when your network is infected and nothing you do can get rid of the problem? Fetco™ Home Decor, a leading designer and wholesaler of photograph frames, photo albums, office decor, and home accent pieces, had just such a problem. They had discovered a virus outbreak within the firm which persistently re-infected…

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the late 80’s and 90’s, most of the projects I was involved with were about converting paper based systems to computer entry, mostly PCs. In those days, it was very easy for a project to show results. Even a poorly designed system could easily show dramatic productivity improvement by replacing paper based data with…

Reading Time: 2 minutes April 8th, 2014 is D-Day for Windows XP users everywhere. That’s when Microsoft is going to end support for its venerable operating system, first launched way back in 2001. Users of XP have been remarkably slow to upgrade to newer versions of Windows, creating an odd situation for Microsoft. It speaks highly of their product,…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Update: check the latest version of Comodo’s free mobile security app Mobile device security, long neglected by device makers, Internet software makers and end users, is increasingly becoming a high priority. Mobile is the direction of computing these days, and hackers are approaching the popular mobile platforms as targets of opportunity. Comodo is stepping up…

Reading Time: 2 minutes There are two things I‘ve learned for sure from studying internet security issues: Anyone can be hacked and hackers always have something new up their devious sleeves. The news that Google+ has been breached is a case in point. Yesterday, the blog site searchengine.com reported that URLs for hotels in Google+ local hospitality listings had…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Target data breach is a story that is not going to go away anytime soon. When Target first reported the breach of its Point of Sale System and credit card data last month, it was the largest reported data breach of the year and one of the most significant in history. According to a…