Android devices are notorious for being among the most vulnerable mobile phones: Downloading the wrong app could place your phone—and all your sensitive data stored on it—into the spidery fingers of a hacker. Even worse, there is malware capable of exploiting vulnerabilities without requiring permission, leaving users ignorant that their Droid has been compromised.
Thankfully, a recently released app called X-Ray offers a partial solution to the problem.

Employees (and management) bringing their own devices to work has become a popular trend recently, but problems arise when employees try to access company servers with their own devices. Thankfully, there is an inexpensive, simple answer that satisfies your company’s need to protect its servers from intrusion while allowing employees to work on the Internet using their personal devices.

While Windows 8 has received more coverage for its new display and user interface, it possesses a large number of security features that businesses should find useful, especially the Pro and Enterprise versions.

Like the starfighter pilots in a chaotic science fiction battle, companies are frequently under attack by malware and sometimes even hackers. Data breaches can take only minutes—even seconds—to occur, but the financial and reputational damages that victim organizations suffer as a result can be quite long-lasting.

Microsoft has released a security alert stating that its MS-signed certificates have been compromised by the complicated malware known as Flame, which can now use Microsoft Update to dispense malware and attack computer systems under the guise of Microsoft. Microsoft has released a patch to protect PC users from the problem.

If you find yourself growing tired of dealing with viruses, malware attacks and network security issues, then perhaps you should consider WatchGuard Technology’s XTM Series for speedy, reliable network security.

Triggered by the popularity of Blackberries, iPhones, Internet-capable gaming systems, and most recently, the iPad, there are now more than 10 billion non-PC devices that connect to the Internet. The majority of these devices do not have security software loaded on them, leaving them vulnerable to viruses, spyware, and malware. What might be even scarier is that it puts other devices on the network at risk if an attack is capable of spreading to other nodes.