Malware
Chinese takeaway Google Safe Browsing badware title
By: Davey Winder
According to the latest reports, when it comes to 'badware' the Chinese are really, really bad. Pulling information from the Google Safe Browsing project, it seems over half the websites hosting malware on the planet are in China.
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By: Davey Winder
According to the latest reports, when it comes to 'badware' the Chinese are really, really bad. Pulling information from the Google Safe Browsing project, it seems over half the websites hosting malware on the planet are in China.
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Spam back on the menu as botnet creating email triples in one week
By: Davey Winder
The volume of spam which exists not to sell you stuff, but simply to add your computer to a botnet collective has tripled in just one week. If that weren't worrying enough, it seems that the Srizbi botnet is now responsible for an incredible 46 percent of all spam being distributed.
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By: Davey Winder
The volume of spam which exists not to sell you stuff, but simply to add your computer to a botnet collective has tripled in just one week. If that weren't worrying enough, it seems that the Srizbi botnet is now responsible for an incredible 46 percent of all spam being distributed.
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Information threat horizon a major cause for concern
By: Davey Winder
One of the world's leading independent authorities on information security has warned that malicious threats from organised crime as well as industrial espionage are on the up. Throw in mobile malware and Web 2.0 vulnerabilities and the threat horizon looks very grim indeed.
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By: Davey Winder
One of the world's leading independent authorities on information security has warned that malicious threats from organised crime as well as industrial espionage are on the up. Throw in mobile malware and Web 2.0 vulnerabilities and the threat horizon looks very grim indeed.
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Drive-by downloads danger from new Mac Trojan: Symantec
By: Stephen Withers
A new Trojan targeting Mac OS X poses a drive-by download threat to users, according to a senior manager at security vendor Symantec. Two new Trojans that could compromise the security of Mac OS X were reported yesterday and more information on one of them has come to light.
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By: Stephen Withers
A new Trojan targeting Mac OS X poses a drive-by download threat to users, according to a senior manager at security vendor Symantec. Two new Trojans that could compromise the security of Mac OS X were reported yesterday and more information on one of them has come to light.
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Dastardly duo of Mac OS X Trojan threats on the loose in the wild
By: Stephen Withers
Mac users beware: a dastardly duo of Trojans is seeking to suck secrets from your computers, and both have been spotted in the wild. With a little help from an incautious user both Trojans are capable of getting around the Mac's defences and executing code with administrator or root privileges.
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By: Stephen Withers
Mac users beware: a dastardly duo of Trojans is seeking to suck secrets from your computers, and both have been spotted in the wild. With a little help from an incautious user both Trojans are capable of getting around the Mac's defences and executing code with administrator or root privileges.
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The most dangerous Euro 2008 football team online
By: Davey Winder
With the Euro 2008 football championships well and truly underway, the Internet is proving to be the perfect place to catch up on scores, fixtures and soccer news. But Euro 2008 has also become a cybercrime hotspot, so we've named and shamed the most dangerous players in cyberspace.
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By: Davey Winder
With the Euro 2008 football championships well and truly underway, the Internet is proving to be the perfect place to catch up on scores, fixtures and soccer news. But Euro 2008 has also become a cybercrime hotspot, so we've named and shamed the most dangerous players in cyberspace.
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Tax time lures tech security companies into the open
By: Stephen Withers
The end of the financial year is less than a week away, and security software companies are using that to draw attention to their products.
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By: Stephen Withers
The end of the financial year is less than a week away, and security software companies are using that to draw attention to their products.
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Recruitment sites, the new malware playground
By: Lia Timson
Recruitment sites are in the firing line of spammers and identity thieves, with a new attempt to compromise employers’ systems intercepted last week.
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By: Lia Timson
Recruitment sites are in the firing line of spammers and identity thieves, with a new attempt to compromise employers’ systems intercepted last week.
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The world must unite to fight malware, says OECD
By: Stuart Corner
The OECD has called for the setting up of a global partnership to combat malware and for Internet service providers and domain name registrars to develop common codes of national and international practice.
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By: Stuart Corner
The OECD has called for the setting up of a global partnership to combat malware and for Internet service providers and domain name registrars to develop common codes of national and international practice.
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[UPDATE]Adobe Flash Player exploit unpatched and in the wild
By: Mike Bantick
A Zero-day exploit has been identified that redirects the Adobe Flash Player to malware infected servers. The threat is expanding.
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By: Mike Bantick
A Zero-day exploit has been identified that redirects the Adobe Flash Player to malware infected servers. The threat is expanding.
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Srizbi sending half the world's spam
By: Stephen Withers
The Srizbi botnet is responsible for half of all spam, according a content security company.
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By: Stephen Withers
The Srizbi botnet is responsible for half of all spam, according a content security company.
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Yahoo! uses McAfee for safer search
By: Stephen Withers
Yahoo! has begun using McAfee technology to help protect its users against risky sites.
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By: Stephen Withers
Yahoo! has begun using McAfee technology to help protect its users against risky sites.
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“Celebrate” 30 years of frustration - with junk mail spam
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Happy Birthday, spam – you’re 30 years old, and while most of us hope that you get a heart attack and die before you turn 31, chances are you’ll outlive us all.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Happy Birthday, spam – you’re 30 years old, and while most of us hope that you get a heart attack and die before you turn 31, chances are you’ll outlive us all.
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Beware the bad words about Google Adwords
By: Stuart Corner
The latest phishing exercise aimed at getting you to divulge details of your bank account purports to be from Google telling you it can't pay you for your Google Adwords.
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By: Stuart Corner
The latest phishing exercise aimed at getting you to divulge details of your bank account purports to be from Google telling you it can't pay you for your Google Adwords.
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Watch out for the “Free 101 Mini-Articles” email scam
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Spammers sending messages laden with malware, be it spyware, viruses or programs to trap our computers in nefarious botnets are getting trickier and trickier in their attempts to get us to not only click on an email, but open the attachment. The latest one is as evil as ever, and could fool plenty of people into clicking.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Spammers sending messages laden with malware, be it spyware, viruses or programs to trap our computers in nefarious botnets are getting trickier and trickier in their attempts to get us to not only click on an email, but open the attachment. The latest one is as evil as ever, and could fool plenty of people into clicking.
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Kraken botnet evolving, says PC Tools
By: Stephen Withers
A significant new variant of the Kraken malware has been identified by security researchers.
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By: Stephen Withers
A significant new variant of the Kraken malware has been identified by security researchers.
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AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0.100 – it’s worth upgrading, now!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
If you’ve been using AVG’s free Anti-Virus 7.5 on your computer, it’s time to upgrade. Why? So you get the new version with free anti-spyware protection, as well as search protection, showing you a real-time rating of sites you search for so you know if it’s safe to click – or not. But where’s the Firefox 3 compatibility?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
If you’ve been using AVG’s free Anti-Virus 7.5 on your computer, it’s time to upgrade. Why? So you get the new version with free anti-spyware protection, as well as search protection, showing you a real-time rating of sites you search for so you know if it’s safe to click – or not. But where’s the Firefox 3 compatibility?
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Here comes version 8.0 of AVG Anti-Virus Free!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Arguably the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, Grisoft’s AVG, has just been upgraded, set for free download from Friday, the 25th of April. We’re sure AVG’s servers are about to get hammered even harder as millions of AVG 7.5 users take advantage of the new version!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Arguably the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, Grisoft’s AVG, has just been upgraded, set for free download from Friday, the 25th of April. We’re sure AVG’s servers are about to get hammered even harder as millions of AVG 7.5 users take advantage of the new version!
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