Viruses and worms are so last-decade. Today’s PC users have to worry more about online burglary than stolen bandwidth.
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Entries from November 2006
COLUMN: Hacking for Dollars
November 29th, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: Column · Consumer Tech · Cybercrime · PC Magazine · Security · Viruses and worms
Bot spreads through antivirus, Windows flaws
November 28th, 2006 · No Comments
University campuses are dealing with a spate of infections caused by a bot program that compromises computers running unpatched versions of Windows and an older version of Symantec’s antivirus software.
SecurityFocus
Tags: Consumer Tech · Cybercrime · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Security · SecurityFocus · Viruses and worms
Trojan horse lesson not learned (humor)
November 27th, 2006 · No Comments
As I was scanning for news today, I came across this. I think it answers the question of whether people learn from history.
Tags: Blog · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Humor · Security
Viruses go virtual
November 22nd, 2006 · No Comments
Online worlds–from Second Life to the World of Warcraft–pave the way to a virtual future, replete with tailored viruses and digital diseases.
SecurityFocus
Tags: Consumer Tech · Security · SecurityFocus · Virtual worlds · Viruses and worms
COLUMN: Browser Bashing
November 15th, 2006 · No Comments
With online miscreants attacking Internet Explorer and Firefox, you need to take steps to protect your browser.
PC Magazine
Tags: Column · Consumer Tech · Flaws and vulnerabilities · PC Magazine · Research · Security
Malware goes to the movies
November 15th, 2006 · No Comments
Online attackers start to experiment with embedding malicious code or links to such code in video files.
SecurityFocus
Tags: Consumer Tech · Cybercrime · Security · SecurityFocus · Viruses and worms
E-voting worries focus on failures, not fraud
November 10th, 2006 · No Comments
No obvious election fraud tainted the midterm elections, but e-voting machine critics stress that Election Day failures should raise a red flag.
SecurityFocus
Tags: E-Voting · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Security · SecurityFocus
Attackers end-run around IE security
November 7th, 2006 · No Comments
Microsoft shored up the security of its flagship browser with the latest release, but the software still lets through attacks on ActiveX flaws in other components of Windows.
SecurityFocus
Tags: Consumer Tech · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Security · SecurityFocus
COLUMN: Watching the Watchmen
November 1st, 2006 · No Comments
Most companies monitor their employees in some way, but is corporate Big Brother going too far?
PC Magazine
Tags: Column · Consumer Tech · PC Magazine · Privacy · Security