When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

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Why is the US banning Kaspersky? Kaspersky is getting banned in the U.S. after the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) conducted a review of the company’s cybersecurity and anti-virus transactions.

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For many years, Windows users had to rely on a third-party security tool to keep viruses and malware at bay, but now Microsoft's operating system comes with its own package, in the form of Windows ...

ReversingLabs (RL), the trusted name in file and software security, today announced that Spectra Assure has been named a winner in the 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Awards, in the category of Software ...

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