George Heron who is the Chief Scientist at McAfee spoke out in this commentary on why he thinks "Microsoft is wrong on Vista security". McAfee has been in full scale attack mode along with rival ...

Who would have thunk it? Symantec hit on a wizard wheeze for creating a more secure version of windows by jacking its security software into the kernel. But according to Tavis Ormandy of Google's ...

In a third and final report on Windows Vista, Symantec examined the security of the operating system core and found some vulnerabilities. Vista includes several barriers designed to prevent malicious ...

The kernel is the fundamental part of an operating system. It is a piece of software responsible for providing secure access to the machine's hardware to various computer programs - it manages the ...

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Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc. say that a Microsoft Corp. technology called Patch Guard — which blocks access to the 64-bit Vista kernel — will make it harder for third-party security vendors to ...