Author: Melih Abdulhayoglu

Web hosting industry is an important industry for Comodo. Protecting web sites is an important function as attacks against websites continue to increase and not only are the businesses running these websites are under attack, but visitors who use these websites are also vulnerable due to compromised web servers and web sites. Mod_security is a […]

Almost everyday we read reports about companies being infiltrated and end users being infected while being “protected” by Antivirus products. Its time to own up and tell the world that running Traditional AntiVirus is no longer enough to protect you. I call upon the AntiVirus industry to STOP spreading statements like “antivirus protection that stops viruses and […]

Version 6 of our beloved Comodo Internet Security (CIS) product has certainly caused a lot of stir in the market place.  As we all know, previous versions of CIS was being used more technical people than novices. This changed with the launch of CIS v 6. It became the security suite choice for the masses. […]

Comodo agrees to pay AV-Comparatives.org $50,000 for 3rd party auditors to validate AV-Comparatives.org tests. None of the AV-Comparatives.org tests are validated by a credible, independent 3rd party. It is in the end user interest to have the tests validated. There are many respectable independent and qualified organisations who can audit and validate AV-Comparatives testing methodologies and financial […]

Here is an excerpt from the agreement that AV-Comparatives gets AntiVirus companies to sign: Look at the wording where they force AntiVirus vendors to even deny  “The existence of this SOW”. So although this was a confidential agreement, AV-Comparatives was unethical enough to threaten Comodo by saying : “we may post our reply on Monday in […]

I never liked bullies, I never liked censorship, I never liked blackmail and I still don’t! Its 24th November early in the morning, its Thanksgiving day in the US and looking forward to celebrating it with my family and friends. I checked my emails and I see the below email that has been sent to […]

Last two weeks has been challenging to say the least. We faced a new threat vector. It was stressful, it was not pleasant but it was a learning experience for me, for my company and for the security industry in general. Everyone in Comodo got together and did an amazing job of supporting Comodo and its customers! Our […]

You will have heard of many attacks (TOR attack , RSA attack  , Tunisian government injecting into login pages) being reported in the media last few days. What is it? Its an attack on the “Authentication” layer of the Internet. Why is it being attacked? Internet has become a critical medium for information exchange. This information […]

Protection vs Cleaning….two very different things! Should we have both in a single product? Whats the point? If a product has failed in protecting you from the infection in the first place, how can you expect it to clean it? And if the product can protect you in the first place, why do you need the […]

Imagine this….. An evil person..planing on creating a virus to turn human race into zombies and enslave them…He is planning…He is executing…..The plan is coming to fruition…The virus created is starting to spread globally, there is no cure…! A man notices his wife acting strange…takes her to his local doctor…explains the problem…says he likes it […]