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Although stiffer jail sentences and legislation have cut into the United States' share of junk e-mail spam sent in the past year, the land of the free is still the number one spam sender in the world, accounting for more than a quarter of the unsolicited nuisance, according to a report issued by sof...
Although stiffer jail sentences and legislation have cut into the United States' share of junk e-mail spam sent in the past year, the land of the free is still the number one spam sender in the world, accounting for more than a quarter of the unsolicited nuisance, according to a report issued by sof...
Owners of PlayStation Portables who may be inclined to alter their devices so they can play unauthorized games should beware of the software they use to do so. Anti-malware company Symantec reports that one of the programs that claims it allows gamers to circumvent security measures on their devices...
It used to be that the Hollywood portrayal of a computer virus writer -- the teenage, late night pizza-eating, underachieving genius who gets a kick out of taking down the White House Web site -- was fairly accurate. But today's malicious code creator has a variety of ways to disrupt and trespass on...
Antivirus experts have found a virus that can move from mobile phones to computers, but analysts say the bug is neither very dangerous nor very sophisticated. The Trojan, called CARDTRP.A or Sybos/Cardtrap.A by different antivirus vendors, is rated as a low risk by Trend Micro. F-Secure calls it "un...
Today's virus outbreaks are not as loud as the Code Red attacks of a couple years ago, but beneath the quieter computing landscape is a perilous push to turn the growing amount of personal computers and personal information into profit through cybercrime, the latest Threat Report from security firm ...
Anti-spyware and other security software makers are saying the butler did it, claiming search player Ask Jeeves is installing software on users' machines without properly notifying them or confirming their consent. Analysts agreed that the improper notification about the software -- reportedly hidde...
There's a wealth of information out there for hackers, or "black hats," as they are also called. The arrest last Thursday of alleged Zotob writer Farid Essebar, 18, who went by the name Diabl0, has shed some light on the thriving underground culture, but much remains a mystery. The hacker underworld...
Although law enforcement officials have arrested two men they believe wrote the Mytob and Zotob worms, one security expert said there may not be much enterprises can do to stop such infections from striking again. The worms, which infected servers and PCs running Windows 2000, struck at ABC, America...
Although law enforcement officials have arrested two men they believe wrote the Mytob and Zotob worms, one security expert said there may not be much enterprises can do to stop such infections from striking again. The worms, which infected servers and PCs running Windows 2000, struck at ABC, America...
As of yesterday afternoon, users of computers running the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system were feeling serious affects of network worms, thanks to a Plug-and-Play vulnerability known as MS05-309. Media outlets including CNN, ABC, the Associated Press and The New York Times have suffered comp...
The first beta of Vista was released last week and quickly a set of viruses, named Danom.A through Danom.E, were published the following week by a virus-writer. However, the malware actually exploits a new command line and scripting language that Microsoft has not yet confirmed will be included in V...
As the use of instant messaging for business and consumer purposes grows, so does the allure of writing malware targeting IM. A study released yesterday by IMlogic, which sells IM security products, reported that the number of attacks on IM systems jumped dramatically during the second quarter. The ...
As virus writing is increasing, average time to infection is decreasing, according to a Danish Internet security firm. Sophos' chart of activity for the first six months of 2005 reports there is now a 50 percent chance of being infected by an Internet worm in just 12 minutes of being online using an...
A spam campaign that claims that Michael Jackson has attempted suicide is seeking to infect e-mail users with a Trojan horse, SophosLabs said yesterday. The message text claims, "Last night, while in his Neverland Ranch, Michael Jackson has made a suicidal attempt." When users click on the link they...
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