Antivirus software is something that can help people be safer and more private on the Internet. But its protections can cut both ways. A case in point: for almost four years, AV products from ...

universally unique identifier (UUID). GUIDs are 128-bit globally unique identifiers that are automatically generated based on close to two zillion frequently varying factors. There is an extremely low ...

A second security firm took a shot at estimating how many Macs are infected by the Flashback malware and it arrived at the same conclusion as the first—more than half a million machines. That figure, ...