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by Sue Walsh on January 22, 2008
A new worm targeting the Symbian OS has launched an attacks on cell phone networks. The worm, called SymbOS/Beselo.A!worm, is able to run on Symbian S60 enabled phones. This includes Nokia 6600, 6630,...
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by Sue Walsh on January 18, 2008
MySpace is under attack again. According to Marshal's TRACE team, it involves spam that pretends to be a legitimate invitation to join MySpace. It contains a link that redirects to a fake MySpace...
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by Sue Walsh on January 17, 2008
A security firm called Finjan has discovered over 10,000 websites infected by a toolkit called "random js toolkit". The kit stores the IP addresses of web crawlers sent by anti-virus tools...
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by Sue Walsh on January 10, 2008
According to Symantec a new rootkit has been found. The kit, named Trojan.Mebroot, lurks in a PC's master book record. What's particularly nasty about this one is it's beginning to infect...
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by Sue Walsh on January 09, 2008
A systems administrator at health care firm Medco Health Solutions Inc, was sentenced to 30 months in jail for a hacking scheme that involved the planting of a "logic bomb" in the...
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by Sue Walsh on January 07, 2008
Researchers at Symantec have discovered a trojan targeted toward the iPhone. Disguised as "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep", it claims to be a critical firmware update. Fortunately, it turns out...
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by Sue Walsh on January 03, 2008
A new Trojan making the rounds offers a new twist-it takes over your desktop and won't go away unless you pay $35! Call it ransomware. The Trojan, called Backdoor.Win32.Delf.ctk, locks the user...
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by Sue Walsh on December 29, 2007
Just hours after Pakistan's former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto was murdered, cyber criminals had released sites using the news to spread malware. The malicious sites even made it to the top of...
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by Sue Walsh on November 23, 2007
Once again, Monster.com has been hit by hackers. The job search site was hit by an IFRAME that linked to a malicious site. The attack took advantage of a cross-site scripting vulnerability and was...
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by Sue Walsh on November 10, 2007
A Los Angeles hacker who worked as a information security consultant by day has admitted to writing and distributing malware to over a quarter of a million computers, creating a botnet that stole...
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by Sue Walsh on November 06, 2007
PCWorld.com has an amazing slideshow about the disturbing new "shadow economy" that's sprung up online.It used to be that hackers, spammers, and the like were people with low morals or...
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by Sue Walsh on November 04, 2007
According to a report on PCWorld.com, U.K. security vendor Prevx is claiming a recent study of 300,000 PCs revealed that over 15% of them had at least one spyware or malware program installed. These...
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by Sue Walsh on October 23, 2007
According to a report from The Guardian, a new version of the infamous "Storm" worm is on the horizon. The original worm was released in January, sent via email with the subject line...
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by Sue Walsh on October 20, 2007
For the second time in just over a month, hackers have hit Skype. This time they are distributing a piece of malware called "Skype Defender". It's being distributed almost exactly like...
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by Ivy on April 05, 2007
There is nothing worse than tricking computer less-literate people into infecting their computers. But, as we see hackers exploiting humans every day, here's the new threat to the average user:...
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by Ivy on January 02, 2007
My inbox has been full of New Year congrats for quite some time now. As I suspected, I didn't become wildly popular since last year, but it was the spam-virus campaign that was in its full blow...
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by Ivy on December 18, 2006
The newest threat to our PC security is a malware named Medbot, which infects computers worldwide, and turns them into image-spam sending zombies. DPM News Agency via Security News Portal reports:...
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by randy on March 01, 2006
Thoughts? original......
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, Spam
by randy on February 28, 2006
Guess What? I'm now blogging for Creative Weblogging on our new I GOT SPAM blog. Like this blog, the topic is malware. I likely won't be cross-posting much and spending more time on the new...
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by randy on February 25, 2006
Peter Pollack: Engineers at Panda Software, while in the process of researching a new trojan, uncovered evidence this week that led them to a web site touting custom-built viruses for sale. For the...
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, Spam
by randy on February 02, 2006
Last week, I had the forturne of one of my x-cow-orkers joining the malware photo sharing Website called Ringo. While trying to get this persons photos, Ringo asked me for my MSN username and...
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