Internet providers could be held responsible for the spread of viruses on private computers, one of Britain’s leading experts has claimed. Giving evidence to the House of Lords science and technology committee, Jonathan Zittrain, professor of internet governance and regulation at Oxford, said that holding broadband companies accountable for dangerous online traffic could help solve [...]
Several vulnerabilities have been revealed in many Kaspersky security products, including ActiveX flaws which could expose data, allowing files to be accessed or stolen by remote malicious attackers, and other flaws which could allow malicious local users to bypass security, escalate local privileges and cause denial of service from the product.

