There's plenty you can do to protect yourself against malware. The best precautions are tough policies, common sense and experience, there's no magic off-the-shelf solution.

With Adobe releasing further patches and vulnerability updates for Acrobat and Reader, the question has to be asked, is it time to take your business elsewhere and consider the alternatives?

What the BBC did was wrong. The corporation should stop defending its botnet antics, and act responsibly

In 1999 the Melissa worm announced a new kind of attack. Ten years later, the security industry is still catching up, says Larry Seltzer

Botnets change quickly to avoid being taken down. Larry Seltzer assesses a move to combat them - and says more could be done

Anti-virus vendors are getting more than 50,000 submissions of new malware per day now. How can the malware business be so productive? It turns out the numbers aren't really as big as all that.