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InternetNews May 19, 2010 |
'Lost' Finale Gives Cyber Crooks New Bait With the end of the popular ABC drama, hackers are exploiting viewers' interest to spread all sorts of malware. |
InternetNews January 20, 2011 |
New Worm Takes Twitter Users For a Ride Twitter fans have a new malware campaign to worry about this week after security researchers at Kaspersky Lab identified a new scareware come-on. |
InternetNews January 25, 2011 |
ICQ Users Fend Off Fake AV Campaign A new scareware scam is taking flight on ICQ, attempting to infect users' PCs and mobile devices while selling them a bill of goods. |
InternetNews March 12, 2010 |
McAfee's Got the Skinny on Scareware McAfee's advisory details the dangers of downloading fake antivirus software, often referred to as 'scareware.' |
InternetNews February 23, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Malware Authors Exploit Facebook App Is a bogus application making the rounds on Facebook just a failed marketing ploy? Or something more dangerous? |
InternetNews January 27, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Ramp Up Short-Lived Web Sites Sites that are here today, gone tomorrow are difficult to track and block. |
InternetNews August 13, 2009 |
Craiglist, AutoCAD Threats Show Virus Variety Malware authors continue showing their creativity, with new viruses making the rounds by targeting Craigslist fans and AutoCAD users. |
InternetNews August 9, 2010 |
Cisco Unveils Top 10 Web Malware Threats Contaminated websites are still a threat, but Cisco's latest security report suggests that are plenty of other Web-borne malware scams that can cost you or your company dearly. |
InternetNews November 8, 2010 |
Spam Surges 28 Percent in October: AppRiver Hundreds of millions of spam emails were distributed every day in October and most of them originated in the United States. |
InternetNews November 10, 2010 |
New Harry Potter Flick Attracts Malware Scams Security experts are warning fans of the Harry Potter series to be on high alert for malware scams praying on their keen interest in the latest movie. |
InternetNews January 29, 2010 |
Another Bogus Virus Warning Disrupts Facebook The clever scam had Facebook users sharing and posting the bogus virus alert throughout the social networking site. |
InternetNews August 27, 2010 |
Latest Malware Trap: Bogus Celebrity Deaths After mastering the art of rigging search engine results to spread malware when breaking news and celebrity gossip is trending hot, hackers have decided to just cut out the middleman. |
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Cybercriminals Launch Attacks Through Digg Bad guys leverage celebrities' names to put malware on victims' PCs. |
InternetNews November 30, 2010 |
Most New Malware Disappears Within A Day: Study New strains of malware are popping up at an unprecedented rate but, fortunately, most of these variants are stamped out within the first 24 hours. |
InternetNews March 3, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Digg Hackers Strike Next at YouTube Attacks are on the rise, with malware authors dabbling in spreading worms and scareware via comments. |
InternetNews June 2, 2010 |
Facebook Users Fend Off 'Likejacking' Attacks Hackers looking to take over Web sessions via Facebook are hiding malware under click-inducing, socially engineered links. |
InternetNews January 12, 2005 Tim Gray |
Lasco.A Poses New Mobile Threat Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure said it has detected a quick spreading and versatile new worm capable of infecting both Windows and cell phones using the Symbian operating system. |
InternetNews May 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Panda Security: Beware Black Hat SEO Purveyors of malware have progressed from building link farms to building custom search engines. |
InternetNews November 20, 2009 |
Past Year's Malware Could Shape 2010's Threats Ever heard of Induc, Sninsfs or OSX.iservice? These new types of attacks emerged in 2009 and could become more prevalent in the year ahead. |
InternetNews April 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Microsoft Warns 'Scareware' on the Rise Beware of anti-spam and anti-virus software you're unfamiliar with - and don't get fooled by fear. |
InternetNews June 4, 2010 |
Hackers Zero In On Execs With World Cup Scam A flurry of malware scams are using e-mails related to the upcoming World Cup to target executives at companies and organizations around the world. |
InternetNews July 21, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Erin Andrews Virus Infects Search, Blogs The taping of the original video was a Peeping Tom crime that criminals are now exploiting to infect PCs. |
InternetNews March 10, 2010 |
Mariposa Bot Shipped With Vodafone Smartphone Panda Security discovered Confiker, Mariposa and Lineage password stealing malware samples installed on a recently purchased Vodafone HTC Magic smartphone. |
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 October 28, 2010 |
Google Details Fight Against Malware At the SecTOR security conference in Toronto, researcher with the search giant describes Google's efforts to seek out and block malware to protect users online. |
InternetNews December 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Latest Facebook Attack Stems from Previous One Businesses with Facebook links must watch out. |
Search Engine Watch June 5, 2010 Johnny Widerlund |
Avoiding Online Risks Kicking Off with the 2010 FIFA World Cup Cyber criminals will continue hijacking current news and events to serve malware. A rundown of the most prevalent online security risks, and how to avoid 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 November 9, 2010 |
USB Devices Pose New Security Threats Portable drives and storage devices are a leading source of malware, according to one security software developer. |
InternetNews February 24, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Supertoxic Site Infects eWeek.com Hackers attacked news site eWeek through DoubleClick network. |
InternetNews September 15, 2009 |
Malware Ads Hit New York Times Media company's advertising staff approved bogus Vonage ad that distributed malware. |
InternetNews December 16, 2010 |
Survey: 1 in 4 Users Shuts Off AV Software Despite the threat of identity theft and malware, a new survey finds that 25 percent of Internet users disable their security software to improve performance. |
InternetNews February 27, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Return to 'Spim' to Lure Victims Once again, instant messaging is being used by malware authors and fraudulent marketers to ply their trades. |
InternetNews June 6, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft IIS a Popular Target For Malware According to a report by Google, malware is as prevalent on Microsoft's Internet Information Servers as the far more popular Apache Web server. |
InternetNews July 27, 2010 |
Microsoft: IE8 Thwarted 1B Malware Downloads With Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft set out to build a more secure Web browser, and 16 months into its launch, the company is touting a major security milestone. |
InternetNews November 4, 2009 |
Kaspersky Offers Macs a Security Blanket Antivirus software designed to thwart growing malware threat to Macs. |
InternetNews January 19, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Get Ready for Inauguration Spam As Obama prepares to be sworn in, hackers and spammers are gearing up for a field day. |
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. |
InternetNews September 2, 2009 |
Malware Capitalizes on California Wildfires Macs and PCs are under attack as concerned netizens search for information about the fires. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2010 Anders Bylund |
What "Twilight: Eclipse" Can Teach About Movie Investing Eclipse should pull in at least $140 million in box office the first weekend alone; so what can an entertainment-minded investor learn from this guaranteed blockbuster? |
InternetNews January 22, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Are Gaming Google's Adwords Researchers are warning of some bad actors in paid results on Google. |
InternetNews November 24, 2009 |
Thanksgiving Links Latest Recipe for Malware CA is warning Internet users searching for the perfect pumpkin pie recipe or turkey-cooking directions to be on high alert for the latest batch of socially engineered malware traps. |
InternetNews September 5, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Made in China: Virus-Laden Web Pages A report finds China has the most compromised Web pages serving up malware. |
InternetNews November 22, 2010 |
Spam Scam Targets Miley Cyrus Fans With Miley Cyrus' 18th birthday near, malware mavens are laying the traps for fans who might be willing to click on stray links to find videos. |
InternetNews November 30, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Google Wants Your Help to Fight Malware Google wants to turn the tables on malware and wants you to report malware to Google when you find it. |
PC Magazine March 26, 2010 Neil J. Rubenking |
Lab Testing Antivirus Software Roundup Many users prefer to build their own protective suite from separate best-of-breed components. Here's a run-down of your choices for standalone antivirus utilities. |
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. |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Twilight Seizures News outlets in the U.S. have received multiple reports of people suffering seizures while watching the birth scene of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1. |
Scientific American June 2009 Michael Moyer |
What Conficker Reveals About Internet Crime The worm exposes the sophisticated international criminal networks behind modern computer viruses |
InternetNews March 21, 2011 Sean Michael Kerner |
Detecting Malware Without Software? New service from Trusteer can pinpoint remote malware running on client PCs. |