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You Googled "Conficker," and you read the stories about the computer worm that's vexing security researchers around the world. Your fears about your own PC soon hit critical mass, so you then Google "how to detect/remove Conficker." What you get is the latest example of social engineering from Inter...
Corporate network administrators can breathe a little easier as the world braces itself for what could be a massive Internet attack courtesy of the Conficker worm on April 1. International non-profit research organization The Honeynet Project, which works on Internet security, has come up with a new...
Speed kills -- ask any cop -- and browser users are going to find that out very soon. The browser wars heated up this week, with Microsoft's launch of Internet Explorer 8, Google's release of a new beta version of Chrome, and the debut of Mozilla's Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox. One of th...
Like cats and mice, security product vendors and cyber-criminals do not care much for each other. Over the past 24 hours, however, cyber-criminals may have just about fallen in love with Symantec, which made a mistake that let crooks launch a flood of malware on the Internet. It all began when Syman...
In 2008, researchers were touting the defeat of the Storm worm -- the most notorious example of the malware category that self-propagates through remote exploits, email, network shares, removable drives, file-sharing or instant messaging applications. Some would argue that despite the name, Storm wa...
Facebook has apparently become a choice distribution channel for several malicious applications and a new variant of a pernicious piece of malware originally detected in 2008. The popular social networking site has been hit by at least three separate security issues in the last week -- two phony app...
Anyone using Google between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. EST on Saturday saw an interesting message pop up alongside nearly all their search results: "This site may harm your computer." Users may indeed know that Web sites sometimes harbor suspicious computer code that can dump spyware or worse on their comp...
The government-backed mortgage bank Fannie Mae has already had its share of negative headlines over the past year, but officials there were close to suffering another major setback: a case of computer sabotage that would have resulted in millions of dollars in damage and wiped out customer mortgage ...
As malware writers and Internet attackers become more sophisticated, 2009 looks to be a year of more focused attacks by profit-driven criminals bent on stealing data from businesses, employees and consumers. Networking firm Cisco released its annual Threat Report Monday, citing a nearly 12 percent i...
Microsoft and the Internet security community are trying to get a handle on a vulnerability that exposes Internet Explorer to the threat of zero day attacks. When the problem was first discovered -- only a few days after December's Patch Tuesday -- there was confusion about how the exploit worked, a...
With each passing year, hackers come up with new ideas, or variations of past ideas, to combine technology and social engineering to deceive users and attack networks for their financial benefit. The mid-2000s saw the proliferation of botnet attacks used for spam, targeted attacks and worse, while 2...
Microsoft on Monday released its Security Intelligence Report, which covers the first half of 2008. The report, according to the software maker, is an in-depth look at the overall software security threat environment. It's based on data received from hundreds of millions of computers around the glob...
Microsoft rushed out an emergency security patch for its Windows operating system Thursday in the hope of heading off a potentially crippling hack attack to nearly a billion Windows-powered PCs. Normally, the software giant addresses bugs and security flaws through the issue of so-called software "p...
A report released Tuesday from ScanSafe, a Software as a Service Web security provider, highlighted the energy industry as facing a high risk of exposure from Web-based malware. Companies within that sector have a 189 percent higher risk than other sectors of the economy, according to the security f...
Internet security firm IronPort Systems announced on Monday an enhanced layer of protection for its Web Security appliance S-Series with the addition of Exploit Filtering technology. The company made its announcement on the heels of the March launch of its URL Outbreak Detection and Botsite Defense....
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