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InternetNews April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well. |
InternetNews July 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
From Russia With Larceny Latest malware kit can integrate itself into your browser to mimic your online banking site, and you'd never notice the change. |
InternetNews June 3, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Scareware Arrives on Twitter in Latest Attack As new Web 2.0 threats proliferate, business IT departments struggle with basic tasks such as patch management. |
InternetNews December 22, 2009 Andy Patrizio |
Malware Writers Get Bold, Rent Datacenters Not content with infecting individual PCs, the criminals who run botnets are now setting up shop in legitimate data centers. How? |
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 October 1, 2009 |
Internet Never More Dangerous: Study Report finds a 585 percent spike in fake anti-malware and security software programs in the first half of 2009. |
InternetNews November 19, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Hackers Abuse Domain-Name Trust Cyber criminals have devised a new twist on the misspelled domain-name trick by hijacking IP addresses. |
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number. |
InternetNews June 25, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Malware Hacker Attack Linked to Spammers Experts warn that a highly sophisticated malicious hacker attack could turn millions of PCs into spam zombies. Infected IIS web servers are spreading the malicious software to Internet Explorer users. |
InternetNews March 18, 2011 |
Rustock Botnet Beaten Down by Microsoft On the heels of last year's successful takedown of another giant botnet, Microsoft just shut down a bigger and more sophisticated botnet this week. |
InternetNews March 4, 2010 |
Spanish Authorities Break Up Massive Botnet "Mariposa" gained access to information in more than 13 million PCs worldwide, making it one of the most destructive botnets in history, though authorities say that the operators weren't sophisticated hackers. |
Bank Systems & Technology September 30, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
At Least One Part of the Economy is Growing: Cybercrime Several studies are showing growth in new techniques designed to trick users and even anti-virus programs to gain access to personal data. |
InternetNews March 26, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Russia's Latest Export To America: Malware They make it, they sell it, but we host it. Finjan finds America is cutting its own throat by hosting most of the malware on the Web. |
InternetNews March 3, 2010 |
Mariposa Hackers Busted in Giant Botnet Scam Three Spanish hackers believed to be responsible for using a botnet to steal log-in credentials and customer banking data were arrested following a multinational investigation. |
PC World August 2006 Andrew Brandt |
The 10 Biggest Security Risks You Don't Know About Hackers, scammers, and identity thieves are constantly coming up with new ways to attack your PC and your privacy. Here are the newest perils and how to foil them. |
InternetNews March 27, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Conficker Countdown: Experts Stress Caution Malware code has infected millions of PCs and will activate on April 1. What do security insiders say users need to know? |
InternetNews March 18, 2010 Stuart J. Johnston |
What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown Even software giant Microsoft had trouble corralling the Waledac malware-spreading botnight. |
InternetNews September 23, 2010 |
Microsoft Offers Free Security for SMBs Using Microsoft Security Essentials at home and want to run it on PCs at your small business? Soon it will be legal to do it. |
InternetNews April 28, 2010 |
Microsoft Warns Infected PCs on the Rise Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report found that the number of infected PCs rose by 1.7 million in the second half of 2009, but improved monitoring is helping flag and clean the corrupted systems. |
InternetNews December 17, 2008 |
Warning, Your Antivirus Software May be Leaky If you think you're protected because you have antivirus applications installed, think again. |
PC World October 24, 2007 Erik Larkin |
The Internet's Public Enemy Number One The Storm Worm has infected so many machines that it's now one of the most powerful supercomputers. |
CIO March 1, 2004 |
This Date in IT History - The Michelangelo virus attacks wiping out data and creating awareness of data security. |
Investment Advisor June 2008 Irace & Mehta |
Security in a New Age How to protect your firm from 21st century online criminals |
InternetNews March 3, 2010 |
Microsoft Calls for Infected PC Quarantine At RSA, Microsoft's Scott Charney compares infected PCs' spamming to secondhand smoke - and suggests they also be banned from the Net. |
PC Magazine July 12, 2006 Robert Lemos |
Gangland Web Attacks How not to get whacked by the botnet mafia. |
InternetNews January 18, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Did Christmas PCs Scare Spam? There was a 30 percent reduction in spam around the first week of January. The reason could be either a major botnet going offline or possibly new Christmas computers replacing older ones that were unknowingly infected. |
InternetNews June 15, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Four Bot Herders Get Put Out To Pasture Your spam filters have ever so slightly less work to do today, thanks to several arrests of bot herders by the FBI. |
InternetNews October 5, 2009 |
RSA Claims New Trojan Plants False Bots Users of online banking may be at greater risk than they know if the URLZone Trojan attacks reach the U.S. |
InternetNews November 26, 2008 Judy Mottl |
Secondhand PCs Go Unused Despite Demand The refurbished PC marketplace is stymied due to a wide swath of issues, impacting the availability of systems to emerging markets. |
Bank Technology News November 2007 Yuval Ben-Itzhak |
The New Enemy: A Trojan Worse Than Phishing Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center discovered evidence of a new genre of crimeware Trojan that steals bank customers' identities without so much as leaving a trace. |
InternetNews February 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Web 2.0: Unsafe At Any Speed? People who specialize in Web security are saying Web 2.0 as it is now can't be secured. Should we keep on this path? |
InternetNews January 21, 2011 |
Tablets, Smartphones to Eclipse PCs: Deloitte Looking ahead to the coming year, consulting firm projects that sales of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets will move past traditional PCs. |