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Entries Tagged as 'Viruses and worms'

Social sites’ insecurity increasingly worrisome

December 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

Security issues at MySpace and other sites have raised fears over protecting users against Trojan horse programs masquerading as user-created content.
SecurityFocus

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Tags: Consumer Tech · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Security · SecurityFocus · Viruses and worms

Every Old Meme Is New Again

December 1st, 2006 · No Comments

A new experiment sends a simple idea racing around the web, and tracks its progress. All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again.
Wired News

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Tags: Consumer Tech · Critical infrastructure · Research · Security · Viruses and worms · Wired News

COLUMN: Hacking for Dollars

November 29th, 2006 · No Comments

Viruses and worms are so last-decade. Today’s PC users have to worry more about online burglary than stolen bandwidth.
PC Magazine

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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

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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

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Tags: Consumer Tech · Security · SecurityFocus · Virtual worlds · Viruses and worms

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

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Bot nets likely behind jump in spam

October 27th, 2006 · No Comments

A significant rise in the global volume of spam in the past two months worries security analysts and suggests that bot-net-based bulk e-mail operations are rapidly becoming the norm.
SecurityFocus

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Tags: Critical infrastructure · Cybercrime · Security · SecurityFocus · Viruses and worms

Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise

October 13th, 2006 · No Comments

Attacks crafted to escape detection by antivirus software are increasingly being used to gain entrance into corporate networks.
SecurityFocus

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Tags: Critical infrastructure · Cybercrime · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Security · SecurityFocus · Viruses and worms

Tag-team attack exploits IE flaw

September 25th, 2006 · No Comments

Attackers exploit a zero-day vulnerability to cause a large number of Web sites to send their visitors to rogue pages carrying a second attack, this time against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
SecurityFocus

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Trusted computing a shield against worst attacks?

August 31st, 2006 · No Comments

A report funded by computer firmware developer Phoenix Technologies finds that the ability to identify users’ computers, a key capability of trusted computing hardware, could eliminate the most damaging digital attacks.
SecurityFocus

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Tags: Cybercrime · Research · Security · SecurityFocus · Viruses and worms