Keeping your home PC safe and secure is more important than ever. Here are some essential tools that offer protection.

Many of Foundstone’s tools became instant computer security classics, such as Superscan (an excellent port scanner), Fport (a port enumerator), stress testing tools, and all sorts of malware ...

And that starts with good security software. An antivirus program is a piece of software that keeps your computer (or phone, tablet, etc.) safe from other software that tries to attack it.

Why you should trust us: PCWorld has been deep in the trenches of testing computer hardware, software, and services since 1983—including security suites.For antivirus apps, we continually ...

It has been almost 40 years since Richard Stallman wrote his manifesto defining open-source software.Since then, the computer security world has embraced his vision — at least for some software ...

Security professionals use ethical hacking tools to assess vulnerabilities in computer systems to improve their security. These tools include packet sniffers for intercepting network traffic, password ...

A Skype worm is loose, computer security software ZoneAlarm could be used to hijack or crash a machine and Window's Server users should implement a vulnerability workaround, researchers say.

The company hopes the software will be broadly adopted in order to 'increase security across the entire Windows ecosystem.' eNewsletter Subscription Great Question Podcast ...

Visualization tools can help ferret out security problems, but the technology has a long way to go. ... Africa is in last place—not because the Africans are masters of computer security, ...

Network security; Information hiding; Software protection; Data mining and security; Intrusion detection . Dr. Mourad Debbabi Professor & Tier I Concordia Research Chair. ... Computer Security ...