When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Your smartphone holds your entire life, making it a prime target for hackers and spies. Here's how to protect it.

Malware (malicious software) seems to be getting worse. No surprise since there’s big money in it as a recent article in the Wall Street Journal pointed out. Typical scams aim to scare unsophisticated ...

Learn how to use Norton Power Eraser to remove malware from your computer. Follow our step-by-step guide to scan and clean ...

A few days ago, at WashingtonPost.com Brian Krebs blogged about businesses that had money stolen from them courtesy of malware on their computers. One of the companies was Slack Auto Parts in ...

While Microsoft has strengthened Windows security over the years, cyber threats have also evolved and become more sophisticated. A single misstep can compromise your PC, allowing malware to operate ...

Just last month, security researchers at SonicWall Capture Labs discovered malicious apps masquerading as Google, Instagram, WhatsApp, and X (formerly Twitter). These fake apps can inadvertently be ...

I am pretty screwed here, I helped out a friend and got the shaft. His hard drive would not partition so I installed it in my machine and ran a low level format on it via IBM's utilities boot disk.

SonicWall has released a firmware update that can help customers remove rootkit malware deployed in attacks targeting SMA 100 series devices. "SonicWall SMA 100 10.2.2.2-92sv build has been released ...

PLUS: Cyber-exec admits selling secrets to Russia; LastPass isn't checking to see if you're dead; Nation-state backed Windows ...

The BadBox Android malware botnet has been disrupted again by removing 24 malicious apps from Google Play and sinkholing communications for half a million infected devices. The BadBox botnet is a ...