items tagged with Malware
Drive-by downloads danger from new Mac Trojan: Symantec
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-06-23 20:55:57
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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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-06-23 20:55:57
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
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-06-22 21:26:46
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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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-06-22 21:26:46
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
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-06-20 10:47:32
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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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-06-20 10:47:32
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
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-06-17 21:53:07
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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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-06-17 21:53:07
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
Written By: Lia Timson
Section: Technology people
Category: Shakers & Breakers - Enterprise Staffing
2008-06-11 22:31:51
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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Written By: Lia Timson
Section: Technology people
Category: Shakers & Breakers - Enterprise Staffing
2008-06-11 22:31:51
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
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-06-02 06:59:06
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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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-06-02 06:59:06
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
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-05-27 23:27:47
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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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-05-27 23:27:47
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
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-05-08 01:27:28
The Srizbi botnet is responsible for half of all spam, according a content security company.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-05-08 01:27:28
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
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-05-06 15:57:46
Yahoo! has begun using McAfee technology to help protect its users against risky sites.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-05-06 15:57:46
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
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-04 23:05:13
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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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-04 23:05:13
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
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-05-02 06:01:19
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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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-05-02 06:01:19
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
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-29 03:13:18
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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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-29 03:13:18
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
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-04-28 19:59:36
A significant new variant of the Kraken malware has been identified by security researchers.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-04-28 19:59:36
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!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-27 06:04:31
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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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-27 06:04:31
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!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-23 22:21:24
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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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-23 22:21:24
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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IT manager turning a blind eye to security risks of social networks
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-04-14 19:02:13
A survey by IT managers by Galaxy Research found that 46 percent of them permit access to social networking sites and few see them as threat to security
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-04-14 19:02:13
A survey by IT managers by Galaxy Research found that 46 percent of them permit access to social networking sites and few see them as threat to security
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Australia becoming a totalitarian state with email snooping to become the norm?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-13 21:27:32
Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland wants to let employers snoop on employees emails – without the consent of workers – as an anti-terrorism measure. Where do we draw the line on privacy?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-13 21:27:32
Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland wants to let employers snoop on employees emails – without the consent of workers – as an anti-terrorism measure. Where do we draw the line on privacy?
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Symantec’s latest security report: web attacks getting much worse
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-04-09 11:45:09
Drive-by downloads, bots, web attacks and the perversion of trusted sites is overwhelming Internet users and stealing their information in record numbers, with malicious hackers finding ways to beat new security methods as fast as they are developed. The wild, wild web is still very much with us!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-04-09 11:45:09
Drive-by downloads, bots, web attacks and the perversion of trusted sites is overwhelming Internet users and stealing their information in record numbers, with malicious hackers finding ways to beat new security methods as fast as they are developed. The wild, wild web is still very much with us!
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Shock: Some major anti-virus vendors fail VB100’s latest test
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Anti-Virus
2008-04-09 07:07:40
Security vendors such as McAfee, Sophos, Trend Micro, BitDefender and Avast have failed VB100’s anti-virus, anti-malware test on Vista SP1, while Symantec’s Norton Anti-Virus, AVG, Kaspersky and, surprisingly, Microsoft’s OneCare, have passed the test with flying colours.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Anti-Virus
2008-04-09 07:07:40
Security vendors such as McAfee, Sophos, Trend Micro, BitDefender and Avast have failed VB100’s anti-virus, anti-malware test on Vista SP1, while Symantec’s Norton Anti-Virus, AVG, Kaspersky and, surprisingly, Microsoft’s OneCare, have passed the test with flying colours.
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Volunteers to just say yes to spam
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-03-31 08:07:20
Imagine actually choosing to live on a diet of email spam for 30 days, with no computer security, and simply replying to and particpating in every offer that arrives in your inbox that takes your fancy. That's exactly what 50 volunteers from around the world intend to do in an attempt to demonstrate the devastating consequences that spam can have for the unsuspecting user.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-03-31 08:07:20
Imagine actually choosing to live on a diet of email spam for 30 days, with no computer security, and simply replying to and particpating in every offer that arrives in your inbox that takes your fancy. That's exactly what 50 volunteers from around the world intend to do in an attempt to demonstrate the devastating consequences that spam can have for the unsuspecting user.
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