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by Sue Walsh on May 10, 2008
© mdornseif According to the Guardian, over half a million PC's were infected with malware in just 7 days. Users are being fooled into downloading a malicious trojan made to look like a video or...
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by Sue Walsh on May 03, 2008
© Ioan Sameli The Associated Press is reporting that malware authors are fighting to protect their rights-their copyrights that is. Professional virus writers (imagine that on a resume!) are now...
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by Sue Walsh on April 18, 2008
PCWorld is reporting that Chinese hackers appear to be preparing for an attack on CNN scheduled for April 19th. The attack is being spurred by the recent pro-Tibet coverage in the media. A Chinese...
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by Sue Walsh on April 12, 2008
© NOTICIAS-TIC Kaspersky is forecasting a huge rise in malware by the end of the year. The security lab is expecting over 1 million malware signatures to be added to its database this year. In...
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by Sue Walsh on April 10, 2008
Here is a good video from Kaspersky Labs regarding malware and how to protect yourself from it. With malware threats continuing to grow, you just can't have too much information about them!......
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by Sue Walsh on March 22, 2008
Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, are accusing Apple of bad business regarding the distribution of its Safari browser to Windows Users. Mozilla claims Apple's tactics are "borderline malware...
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by Sue Walsh on March 14, 2008
ITNews is reporting that McAfee has discovered a maze of over 10,000 websites that have been hijacked by cybercriminals with the intent of using them to take over unsuspecting visitor's PCs. The...
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by Sue Walsh on March 07, 2008
Microsoft has announced it will release 4 critical patches on March 11th. All will address remote execution flaws found in Office: The first bulletin is rated critical for Microsoft Office Excel 2000...
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by Sue Walsh on March 02, 2008
The latest Trojan to hit the net is capable of removing rootkits from already compromised PCs, but then installs it's own nearly undetectable backdoor. Named the Pandex Trojan, it stops existing...
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by Sue Walsh on February 29, 2008
Secure works has released an excellent analysis of the Ozdock/Mega-D trojan, whuch is responsible for creating and adding to the Mega-D botnet. Here is an excerpt: Some sample Ozdok filenames are...
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by Sue Walsh on February 25, 2008
CIO.com has an excellent article about the Cybercriminal Ecosystem. It examines the evolution of crimeware and how malware creation groups follow the organization of legit groups. Here is an excerpt:...
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by Sue Walsh on February 23, 2008
The latest newsworthy event being exploited by spammers is the recent lunar eclipse. According to a security alert issued by Websense, a new wave of spam has emerged, promising videos of the eclipse....
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by Sue Walsh on February 20, 2008
Here is an interesting video about malware and threat management. It is from DeepSec2007, an indepth security conference that took place in Europe this past November. Here is an excerpt from the...
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by Sue Walsh on February 20, 2008
According to a report by security vendor PC Tools, Russia has overtaken China as the malware leader, accounting for over 27% of it. China is second with 26%. Russia is also a huge producer of spam....
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by Sue Walsh on February 15, 2008
Researchers at Symantec and McAfee are reporting a spam that carries a Trojan horse masquarading as a video of Hillary Clinton. "Hilary [sic] Clinton visited her campaign headquarters in...
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by Sue Walsh on February 10, 2008
According to AVG, the website for antivirus vendor AvSoft Technologies has been hacked, resulting in a virus being installed on visitor's computers. The malware is being hosted in the site's...
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by Sue Walsh on February 05, 2008
More than 40 security software firms from around the world recently met in Spain to formalize the charter for the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, or AMTSO. The organization was formed in...
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by Sue Walsh on January 31, 2008
Botnets have become more and more of a concern lately, thanks to the Storm Worm. Storm is believed to have created the net's largest botnet, with somewhere between 5-10 million computers turned...
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by Sue Walsh on January 26, 2008
Malware is no laughing matter, but here is a new and informative video from Trend Micro that takes a lighter approach to explaining and examining malware.......
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by Sue Walsh on January 23, 2008
In a particularly tasteless example of hackers using SEO to spread their malicious files, Trend Micro is reporting that within hours of the news that popular actor Heath Ledger had been found dead in...
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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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