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Testing real-world effectiveness of antivirus products is really, really tough. Ideally, you'd measure the way they handle in-the-wild malicious websites and applications when encountered exactly the way a user would. Of course, in order to score the test you'd need the ability to identify every malicious object, even zero-day attacks.

Chief executive and president Gregg Steinhafel has left the company after 35 years, including giving up his seat as chairman of the company's board of directors. Steinhafel had overseen the company as CEO since 2008 and as president since 2009. His departure follows that of CIO Beth Jacobs, who was just replaced by Homeland Security veteran Bob DeRodes.

Sitting in a room with the leaders of the country's largest retailers would look decidedly different today than it did two years ago as CEO shakeups have rocked the industry.

With IT facing more complex and new types of threats compared to years past, it's time to arm yourself with the best tools to keep you and your network secure.

David Sancho, senior threat researcher with Trend Micro, has recently written a short but good post in which he pointed out the reasons why despite their inherent insecurity, passwords are here to stay.

Gregg Steinhafel resigns "after extensive discussions"

How secure is the cloud? A number of panelists at last week's Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit talked about that issue, especially in the wake of the Snowden revelations and the Target breach.

Spamming and scamming has moved to social media in full force, according to new research on the Twittersphere from Trend Micro.a

The AOL Mail data security breach could yield enough valuable information to craft convincing phishing campaigns, according to security experts, who said the security incident is the latest in wide-scale targeting of web-based email accounts conducted by financially motivated cybercriminals.

A group of five hackers claims they worked for two weeks to find an exploit in the new patched version of OpenSSL, which the Heartbleed bug affected.