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InternetNews February 23, 2007 Clint Boulton |
Want a Contract With Your Key Logger? Malware authors are now offering ongoing support and updates for their goods. |
InternetNews July 29, 2009 |
Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries. |
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 March 25, 2010 |
Symantec: China Is Tops in Targeted Malware Symantec's latest report pinpoints China as the leading source of malware tailored to hoodwink execs in specific industries. |
InternetNews May 31, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Latest Espionage Case Underlines Threat One of the biggest cases of industrial espionage in Israel throws a spotlight on the shadowy world of corporate competition and how easy it is to fall victim to a Trojan horse attached to e-mail. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2005 Lauren Aaronson |
For Love of Money Malicious hacking takes an ominous turn in the form of targeted Trojan attacks, in which an e-mail attachment looks innocuous but conceals a dangerous cargo and is more likely to be opened because the subject line contains language calculated to lure a particular recipient into opening it. |
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 |
Michael Jackson Malware Has Already Hit the Net Trojans attempt to exploit the postmortem interest around the late King of Pop. |
InternetNews November 17, 2010 |
Stuxnet, Mobile Threats Top 3Q Malware Report Security software vendor McAfee's 3Q Threats Report takes note of some older malware scams from the past and some new and discouraging new ones. |
InternetNews March 2, 2011 |
PDF Malware on the Rise: MessageLabs Latest report from security vendor Symantec's MessageLabs unit highlights surge in malicious software hiding in PDF attachments, while overall email threats are on the rise. |
InternetNews June 26, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
MessageLabs Takes Malware Fight To The Clouds New Web Security Services tries to catch malware before it hits your computer. |
InternetNews March 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
SMBs Playing The Ostrich When It Comes To Security Small to medium-sized businesses often don't have the security policies, systems or know-how in place of their larger enterprise brethren, and that's a lurking danger. |
InternetNews October 27, 2010 |
Malware Scams Pick Up In Retail Sector Targeted attacks are becoming more and more common as hackers seek out specific individuals or groups to steal proprietary information. |
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 Magazine August 1, 2007 Larry Seltzer |
A Long-Ignored Threat: RTF Files A new danger is being exploited by malware. Learn which steps to take in order to avoid becoming a victim... Biggest and worse malicious programs and viruses... |
InternetNews July 6, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Trojans on The March Is it all Microsoft's fault? One security vendor suggests that users may well want to switch to a less-targeted OS. |
InternetNews February 2, 2011 |
Rustock, Phishing Scams Boost Spam in January A flurry of new malicious spam campaigns and the return of the Rustock botnet elevated spam activity in latter half of January. |
InternetNews January 27, 2010 |
Cyber Terrorists Target U.S. Oil Industry Three of the world's largest U.S.-based oil and natural gas companies were hoodwinked by an extremely sophisticated malware attack designed to steal key proprietary data related to the whereabouts of new oil reserves. |
InternetNews April 22, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner |
Who's Taking the Bait: 'Phishing' Skyrockets Online security groups say the scamming technique used for identity theft is proliferating as fast as viruses, with attacks up over a thousand percent since September. |
InternetNews January 14, 2004 Sharon Gaudin |
Last Year's Security Problems May Balloon in 2004 If 2003 was the worst year in history for viruses and spam, hold onto your hat. This year, according to security experts, is setting up to see the malicious problems that appeared last year grow and fester into major security problems for 2004. |
InternetNews May 28, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Flood of Fake Western Union E-mails Hide Trojan An influx of malware-laden spam, which started two weeks ago, continues today as hackers seek credit card and banking information. |
InternetNews November 15, 2010 |
Malicious Spam Surges in 3Q: Report Kaspersky Lab report finds the volume of malicious spam soared in the third quarter, keeping security software firms and consumers on high alert. |
InternetNews November 20, 2009 |
Symantec's 'Unlucky 13' Security Trends for 2010 Hackers and malware purveyors are becoming more sophisticated, meaning computer users need to become wiser and more proactive, too. |
InternetNews October 17, 2005 Tim Gray |
IRCbot Trojan Spoofing Skype Researchers discover a new variant of the IRCbot Trojan disguised as the latest release of the popular Skype VoIP software client version 1.4. |
CFO January 30, 2004 Esther Shein |
Spy vs. Spy Companies are spending billions on network security, but staying ahead of hackers may be a pipe dream. |
InternetNews November 16, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Spam Spikes This Holiday Season Recent stats by Symantec show spam volumes leveling off, but think of it as the calm before the holiday storm. |
InternetNews May 18, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Legit Sites Riskier Than Web's Back Alleys New reports say that while users may fear fly-by-night Web sites, they're more likely to be infected by the sites they trust. |
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot |
InternetNews December 2, 2010 |
Targeted Malware, Spam Will Surge in '11 Security software vendor predicts more malware campaigns will use social media to target mobile devices, apps and industry-specific systems. |
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Sharon Gaudin |
Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam Outdoing most analysts' worst predictions, spam accounted for 82 percent of all U.S. email last month. |
InternetNews October 21, 2009 |
Auto Industry a Spam Magnet: Study Panda Security survey finds that only one-tenth of one percent of all e-mail received by auto industry is legitimate. |
CIO July 15, 2006 Michael Schrage |
Visibility for the Board With boards of directors under increased scrutiny by regulators and other entities, CIOs should consider creating a digital dashboard that gives them a view into the key performance indicators of the business. |
InternetNews July 1, 2009 David Needle |
Google Spouts Scary Spam Stats Google digs deep to uncover the latest spam trends. |
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. |
InternetNews July 26, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Search Engine Virus Spells 'Doom' A new strain of the old virus, MyDoom, is spreading throughout the Internet. This time, it's targeting search engines like Google. |
InternetNews June 23, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Next-Gen Bank Trojans Are Upon Us Regardless of how much damage they may have done in the past, a new generation of banking Trojans is beginning to appear, and they're game for even more pilfering, according to at least one security researcher. |
InternetNews May 19, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai Zombie networks and botnets are ramping up spam and using sophisticated filter penetration tactics -- to sell Acai drinks? |
InternetNews June 11, 2010 |
Symantec Warns of Latest World Cup Malware Researchers at software-security firm detect a two-pronged malware attack targeting executives at major Brazilian firms, using the World Cup as a lure. |
InternetNews May 28, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Small Businesses Under Siege by Spammers Real-world data compiled shows that money scams are growing as the recession continues - and small firms aren't exempt. |
InternetNews July 8, 2005 David Needle |
CERT Warns on Latest Trojan Horse Attacks Targeted e-mail viruses may be behind some recent Internet outages. The trojan horse viruses can evade anti-virus software and appear to be from a trusted source. |
Search Engine Watch January 20, 2010 Jason King |
Google's New Approach to China: A Closer Look at the Attack Heard 'Round the Web Taking a look at the numerous security implications for Google users after last week's cyber attack on Google by China. |
CIO November 2, 2011 Maryfran Johnson |
Why CIOs Detest the Phrase "IT and the Business" Here's why it's time to dump this polarizing phrase and make IT and business people equal partners. |
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. |
InternetNews December 23, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Subject Lines Spammers Can't Resist Any time you see an e-mail with one of these subject lines, delete it without opening if you want to stay safe. |
InternetNews April 29, 2010 |
China Slides Out of Spam Top 12 While China is widely regarded as the unofficial headquarters for hacking and digital espionage, the country doesn't even crack Sophos' Top 12 for spam production. |
InternetNews April 27, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Typo Crashes Systems Spyware authors and phishing fraudsters have taken advantage of misspellings of google.com to infect computers with trojans and adware. |