Stories about: Grisoft

What is true enterprise security and how do you get it? Bogus promises by vendors are all too common. In this interview, outspoken security analyst Nick Selby humorously tackles the truth about data leakage products, smartphone protection, hotspot threats and the word "solution." Nick Selby leads The 451 Group's Enterprise Security Practice. Selby also serves as The 451 Group's Director of Research Operations and is on the faculty of the Institute for Applied Network Security.

The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.

Grisoft Wednesday said it has changed the name of its parent company to AVG Technologies N.V. AVG is its brand of antivirus software, said to be used by 66 million people around the world. The U.S.-based company that's part of AVG will now be known as AVG Technologies USA, with the Cyprus and British companies also reflecting the AVG name change.

It's a truism that sites get hacked every, and some may even deserve it. But we're no longer talking about individual hacks by disgruntled geeks. We're looking at massive, well-organized plans to take over vast portions of the Net. Case in point: The SQL Injection exploit that infected more 70,000 sites -- including some parts of CA's site -- according to researchers at Grisoft.

Security researchers have released code showing how a pair of widely used technologies could be misused to take control of a victim's Web browsing experience.

In the last two weeks, hackers have exploited an 18-month-old vulnerability in Microsoft Windows in three high-profile attack campaigns to infect PCs with advanced rootkits and launch infections from thousands of compromised Web sites.

Tens of thousands of Web sites have been compromised by an automated SQL injection attack, and although some have been cleaned, others continue to serve visitors a malicious script that tries to hijack their PCs using multiple exploits, security experts said this weekend.

Security provider, Grisoft, today announced plans to acquiref Exploit Prevention Labs, a developer of safe surfing technology that protects Internet users against malicious Web sites and drive-by downloaded exploits.

Antivirus software vendor Grisoft Wednesday announced it has acquired start-up Exploit Prevention Labs for an undisclosed price.

Antivirus software is frequently tested for performance, so picking a top product should be straightforward: Select the number-one vendor whose software kills off all of the evil things circulating on the Internet. You're good to go then, right? Not necessarily.

Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare climbed from [[ArtId:1407473052|March's dead last|new]] to 14th place in a test of 17 antivirus programs, an Austrian security researcher reported Friday.