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InternetNews
May 3, 2005
Tim Gray |
Virus Writers Slapped With Red Card Scammers are gearing up for the 2006 World Cup by sending out millions of virus-carrying e-mails advertising ticket confirmations for the matches.   |
The Motley Fool
May 16, 2005
Seth Jayson |
What's German for "Spam?" A lot of unsolicited German political rhetoric highlights Microsoft's continued security problems with a new "Q" variant of the two-year old computer virus. |
InternetNews
October 6, 2005
Tim Gray |
Sober's Rating is Raised McAfee today announced that its Anti-virus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team raised its risk assessment to "Medium" on the recently discovered W32/Sober.r, also known as Sober.r. |
InternetNews
April 27, 2006
David Miller |
Bouncebacks: The Hidden Cost of Spam A nasty side effect of spam and e-mailed viruses is costing companies an estimated $5 billion per year in IT resources, according to security services company IronPort. |
BusinessWeek
March 22, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Toughing Out The Junk-Mail Virus An insidious strain swipes e-addresses from your PC -- to spam your friends |
PC World
November 20, 2006
Andrew Brandt |
Privacy Watch: Phishers Put Their Lures on Cell Phones Phishing scammers have begun sending deceptive short message service (SMS) messages to people's mobile sets. |
PC World
August 2, 2001
Frank Thorsberg |
Double Trouble: Code Red and Sircam Plagues Continue Computer users face high-profile threats from multiple sources... |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2006
Neil J. Rubenking |
Who Has a Virus? If your e-mail account has received numerous "mail rejected" notifications for messages that you never sent, this generally doesn't indicate that you've got a virus. However, there's no way to block the flood of rejection messages. |
InternetNews
January 20, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
'Bagle' Virus Threat Upgraded New e-mail virus includes a backdoor component which could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on infected systems. |
InternetNews
June 3, 2005
Tim Gray |
Ever-Morphing Bagle Virus Going Strong A new variant of the Bagle downloader virus is spreading havoc again on unsuspecting users' machines, according to e-mail security firm MessageLabs. |
InternetNews
June 29, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets. |
InternetNews
February 2, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
A Sobering Report on Viruses According to an analysis by Postini of 150 billion e-mail messages sent in 2005, e-mail-borne viruses represented 2.5 percent of all inbound e-mail messages. |
InternetNews
February 23, 2005
Jim Wagner |
FBI: We're Not Infecting You The culprit, according to e-mail security sites Symantec and F-Secure, could be a new strain of the Sober.K worm, which spoofs the domain addresses of a number of e-mail servers. |
InternetNews
April 10, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
Conficker's 'Kido' Spinoff Gets Busy Spamming Report says one bot can send up to 80,000 e-mails a day. |
PC World
November 27, 2002
Paul Roberts |
New E-Mail Worm Causing Severe Damage Winevar could delete all the files on a computer's hard drive, while also mocking the user. |
InternetNews
March 31, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
New Netsky Mutant Preps DoS Attack The Kazaa file-sharing network is being targeted for a DoS attack by the newest Netsky strain. |
PC World
July 26, 2001
Frank Thorsberg |
Sircam Worm: Crawling Fast but Easily Crushed Curiosity could kill your computer, but quick deletion will spare your files and your correspondents... |
PC World
July 2004
Andrew Brandt |
Privacy Watch: Why Your Friends Believe You're Selling Viagra Spammers who forge your address on their junk messages can clog your inbox and harm your reputation. |
InternetNews
December 8, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Sober Worm Has Nazi Connection The infamous Sober worm is set to rear its ugly head again in a New Year's activity that has security officials expecting the worst. |
InternetNews
December 7, 2005
Michael Hall |
Chatty Worm-Bot Coaxes Malware Download A new worm making the rounds on AIM simulates a real person to coax users into accepting its payload. |
PC World
April 9, 2002
Tom Mainelli |
Tricky Worm Can Spread via AIM, IRC Low-risk mass-mailed W32.aphex promises porn but delivers inconvenience for buddies... |
PC World
July 2, 2002
Andrew Brandt |
Klez: The Virus That Won't Die? Brace yourself for another round: A variant of the resilient worm is wriggling alive this week. |
PC World
August 23, 2002
Frank Thorsberg |
The World's Worst Viruses Check out our list of nasty computer viruses -- and find out how to save your PC from infection. |
InternetNews
January 6, 2004
Robyn Greenspan |
The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, December 2003 High growth rates and record-breakers are usually celebrated, but not when it comes to spam and viruses. The spam volume rose from 42 percent of e-mail to 58 percent during 2003, and the year fell just short of being the worst on record for malware variants. |
InternetNews
December 22, 2003
Ryan Naraine |
(Sober) Mutant Starts to Squirm This mass-mailing worm comes with a German flavor and puts new PC users at higher risk. |
Bank Technology News
August 2003
Karen Krebsbach |
BugBear.B Virus Hits Up to 14 Banks Firms scramble to keep breaches plugged |
PC World
March 14, 2002
Todd R. Weiss |
E-Mail Worm Goes Multilingual Vendors update protection to nail English/Japanese W32/Fbound.c, which travels via Outlook... |
InternetNews
January 29, 2004
Zachary Rodgers |
'MyDoom' Variant Blocking Ad Servers Virus could result in under-delivery of online campaigns. |
Inc.
October 2005
John Fried |
How to Avoid Scammers, Spammer and the Rest of the Bad E-guys Before anything else, you need to know who the on-line scammers are and how to keep them out. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2004 |
Spam Sleuth Enterprise Helping keep e-mail inboxes spam-free is the goal of this Blue Squirre offering, which is an anti-spam server solution that resides on an e-mail server or as a separate server to screen out spam before it reaches the internal mail server. |
PC World
January 28, 2002
Ellen Messmer |
'My Party' E-Mail Virus Hides as URL Antivirus vendors urge update to protect against sneaky virus, which could open PCs to intruders... |
PC World
September 2002
Andrew Brandt |
Klez: The Virus That Won't Die Already the most prolific virus ever, Klez continues to wreak havoc. |
InternetNews
September 13, 2010 |
Enterprises Recover From 'Here You Have' Virus One of the most potent email-based viruses in years had enterprise IT managers scrambling over the weekend to get their email servers back in top form. |
InternetNews
November 19, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
New Virus 'Sobers' up The Internet A new worm is wriggling around the Internet. This time it's the latest variant of Sober, which first appeared in October of 2003. |
InternetNews
June 1, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
AppRiver Secures E-Mail Tide AppRiver claims its new service can stop the riptide of spam, eliminating 97 percent of unwanted e-mail before it reaches the network. |
Reason
November 2003
Wendy M. Grossman |
The Spam Wars How should the Internet deal with junk mail? |
PC World
September 18, 2001
Frank Thorsberg |
Multi-Fanged Worm Starts Global Attack New mass-mailing worm starts sophisticated attack on PCs and servers worldwide... |
PC World
June 13, 2002
Sam Costello |
First JPEG Virus Identified McAfee studies lab virus that could change the way digital infections spread -- and are contained. |
InternetNews
February 6, 2004 |
Feedback: Virus Writing: Not Fun, Not Funny Readers weigh in on Chris Nerney's column about the MyDoom virus and offer their own solutions too. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 10, 2003 |
System Alert: You've Got... Worms Was the recent spate of attacks just more of the same -- or are virus writers beginning to infect computers with other gains in mind? Experts at Wharton and elsewhere weigh in on possible motives and defenses against them. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2005
Tim Gray |
Windows Worm Goes Global The Zotob.B virus and its variants are now using chat channels to allow hackers to control infected PCs. |
InternetNews
May 26, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs. |
PC World
April 2005
Steve Bass |
Four Fixes for the Most Annoying E-Mail Protecting your inbox from unwanted, virus-laden e-mail. |
Salon.com
September 1, 2000
Maura Kelly |
The ghosts of reunification Germany threatens to ban a far-right political party with skinhead ties following the murder of a Mozambican immigrant. |
PC World
May 9, 2002
Brian Sullivan |
'Cute' Trojan Horse Spreading by E-Mail Worm has been rated low risk, but could damage firewall and security programs on infected PCs... |
InternetNews
June 4, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
Look Out For 3-Headed Plexus Worm A patch Microsoft issued in April could fend off the malicious mutant. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Cyber Criminals Prove Elusive Law enforcement efforts to snare virus writers are improving, but the most destructive ones have evaded capture. |
CIO
March 1, 2004 |
This Date in IT History - The Michelangelo virus attacks wiping out data and creating awareness of data security. |
InternetNews
May 14, 2004
Robyn Greenspan |
The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, April 2004 The spam volume is rising, e-mail trust is eroding, and viruses are rampant, but Internet users are sending more legitimate messages and CAN-SPAM is making a positive impact. |
InternetNews
June 13, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Worm Has a Yen For Yahoo Mail Worm wrigglers have apparently targeted Yahoo's popular Webmail with a new virus. But so far, it's a bust. |
