McAfee is suing Dixons for £30 million, but British retailer says McAfee AV did not work with Windows 10S

McAfee is suing Dixons for £30 million, but British retailer says McAfee AV did not work with Windows 10S
Departments handling sensitive data should avoid Russian security products as they face an ‘increased risk’ of hacking, while Barclays drops Kaspersky offer
Research at Black Hat contends that at least four antivirus companies’ products use cloud sandboxes that could be exploited by malware
Kaspersky celebrates 20th birthday by releasing free antivirus it claims will boost the protection of all customers
Redmond did temporarily switch off third party anti-virus products for Windows 10, the firm admits
False positive hell. Webroot AV mistakenly identifies Windows files as malicious, damages computers
New zero-day attack exploits old Windows vulnerability to take ‘full control’ of ‘major antivirus’ products
Carbon Black believes now is the time to move on from traditional antivirus (AV) software and embrace the next generation of endpoint security
Kaspersky claims Windows 10 makes every effort to deactivate third-party security tools
Around 500,000 UK adults have fall victim to online dating or romance scams
The most successful tech company in the Czech Republic aims to improve its service by bringing Silicon Valley to Prague
Kaspersky Lab has denied a report that it manipulated antivirus data to harm competitors including Microsoft, Avast and AVG
John McAfee says that governments around the world must change their way of thinking if we’re ever to have privacy and security
Face-palm time. Panda Antivirus accidentally labels itself malware and damages an undisclosed number of PCs
Avast for Business is said to bring straightforward, cross-platform and cloud-managed security to the market
Router security currently similar to that of PCs in the 1990’s, Avast COO Ondrej Vlcek tells TechWeek Europe
A lack of IT policy on devices puts companies in great danger.
Criticism of antivirus software for the malware it misses is unjustified says NSS Labs in a new report
Avast 2014 offers faster scanning, smaller footprint, new privacy features
A NSS Labs study found that combining security products tended not to produce the level of improvement expected
A study based on findings from more than 1,000 corporate networks has found that antivirus programs failed to detect a large proportion of web-borne malicious code
Windows 8 with Windows Defender switched on was able to block only 85 percent of this year’s most common malware, according to BitDefender
Cisco doesn’t think antivirus is right for protecting business mobiles
Sophos releases more help for users after a literally self-defeating false positive gaffe
Google has bought VirusTotal, which provides services analysing files and URLs to detect viruses, worms, Trojans and other malware
GCHQ and Symantec put out fresh warnings over cybercrime, but one cynic isn’t convinced
The government should spend money on busting cybercrime perpetrators, instead of on security products, say Cambridge University researchers
On demand scanning, speed and Facebook protection offered by security app
Cyber-weapons are cheap, democracy is dying, and social media is dangerous – the dark prophecy of Eugene Kaspersky
Kaspersky CEO says free antivirus firms are taking the fruits of others’ hard work without asking