SAN JOSE, Calif.--As part of a push to regain the public trust, Microsoft plans to release a wizard-like program to help home software users and network administrators protect their computer systems ...

Software that analyzes a network to determine its exposure to unwanted intruders. Also called a "vulnerability scanner," such products check client PCs, servers, routers, firewalls, network appliances ...

Microsoft recently kicked off a blog series to cover all the security tools being offered by them on the Microsoft Security Blog. These tools deserve respect as these programs keep your system malware ...

Cloud-native security startup Aqua Security Software Ltd. has spent some of the money it raised earlier this year to acquire an open-source scanning tool called tfsec. The company said that with today ...

Even though most of us may have antivirus software installed on our Windows 11/10/8/7 computer, there may be times of doubt where you might want a second opinion. While one can always visit online ...

Open source Trivy plugs into the software build process and scans container images and infrastructure-as-code files for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Attacks on cloud-native infrastructures ...

An automated scanner has been released to help security professionals scan environments for devices vulnerable to the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) RCE flaw tracked as CVE-2024-47176. The flaw, ...

Security Scanner 2008 is a program that at first glance looks like a legitimate anti-malware scanner. It scans your computer, alerts you when an infection is found, and prompts you to remove them. In ...

A critical vulnerability was recently discovered in Imunify360 AV, a security scanner used by web hosting companies to protect over 56 million websites. An advisory by cybersecurity company Patchstack ...

A team of computer scientists, including one from Johns Hopkins, has discovered several security vulnerabilities in the full-body X-ray scanners used at U.S. airports between 2009 and 2013. The team ...

Companies have increased the cadence of application-security testing — with triple the number of applications scanned and 20 times more scans per application — compared to a decade ago, according to ...

Over the years, I’ve made no secret of my distrust of the Windows security software industry. With the security tools in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista, an alert Windows user is protected ...