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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Android malware writers exploit Instagram craze Fake Instagram websites distribute Android Trojan horse that sends SMS messages to premium-rate numbers
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Apple Trojan infection shows weekend decline But 50,000 UK users could be infected
Friday, February 03, 2012
Symantec warns of Android Trojans that mutate with every download The malware contains instructions to automatically send SMS messages to premium-rate numbers from a large number of European and former Soviet Union countries
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
FAQ, What's the big deal about Duqu? It could pose a grave threat to the industrial control systems
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Hackers target iPad owners with Windows malware The bogus update dupes Windows users into downloading a backdoor Trojan. The attack does not put Mac owners at risk
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
OPINION: Don’t abandon password changing policies And to do that means ignoring a Microsoft Research paper which argues regularly scheduled password change mandates are a waste of time. Find out why forcing your staff to update their log-in details is still a great security practice
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Mozilla retracts Firefox add-on malware claim The open source foundation said a false positive on an anti-malware scan incorrectly pegged the Sothink Video Downloader version 4.0 as infected. The software is an add-on for the open source Firefox Web browser. Mozilla confirmed another add-on, Master Filer, does contain a Trojan
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Firefox browser add-ons infected The open source foundation’s blog identified Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and all version of Master Filer were infected with a Trojan horse aimed at Windows machines. Mozilla has removed both add-ons from its download site but Master Filer was reportedly downloaded 600 times
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Network security threats to watch in 2010 Good patching procedures and outbound firewall rules will go far in protecting your organization from botnets, but hackers are now targeting Adobe Acrobat, the Symbian mobile operating system and other software. How to protect yourself from the threats of 2010
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Massive bot attack spoofs Facebook password messages 'Bredolab' Trojan rides fake reset messages, reaches at least 735,000 users 
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The dark side of DLP The most productive employees hardly need to be monitored, and those who aren’t will simply look for ways to avoid being monitored. Data loss prevention can provide security from breaches but monitoring should not be used to examine every minute of work
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Mass mailers, Trojans continue to appear in malware The most prevalent individual threat in March was the Pushdo.EV Trojan, while the fastest growing threat was the Virut.A virus. Find out what prompted users to open Pushdo
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Storm worm continues to rage via rootkit Spam messages attempting to dupe users into installing the bot-making Trojan now include links happycards2008.com or newyearcards2008.com. Prepare your users for the latest attack
Monday, February 05, 2007
Internet bank robbers peddling infected servers database, says Kaspersky Russian security professionals Eugene and Natalya Kaspersky dropped by Network World this week en route from Moscow to the RSA Conference in California. In a wide-ranging interview with Features Editor Neal Weinberg, the Kaspersky Lab duo discussed the Russian mafia, the latest in hacker tricks and their view that the bad guys are winning.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Trojan worming its way through Skype chat? Computer security analysts are studying reports of a worm that may be circulating via a feature in Skype Ltd.'s popular VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) service. 
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Microsoft wrongly labels Google's Gmail as virus Microsoft's fledgling consumer anti-virus service, Windows Live OneCare, wrongly identified Google's Gmail service as a virus infection, Microsoft has admitted.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Trojan installs antivirus scanner to kill rivals Security experts have discovered new spambot software that installs its own antivirus scanner to eliminate competition, alongside a number of other sophisticated features.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Trojan does Firefox trot Security vendor McAfee Inc. has detected a new piece of malicious software that masquerades as part of the Firefox Internet browser. McAfee calls the Trojan horse "FormSpy." Trojan horses are programs, often attached to spam e-mail, that appear innocuous but are harmful to a computer. 
Monday, February 14, 2005
Antivirus, e-mail vendors up ante in malware fight Technology to fight spyware, remotely controlled bots and other threats will dominate news from the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, as antivirus and e-mail security companies offer new products and features to protect companies and Internet users from sophisticated, malicious code.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Police called in after Australian tax e-mail scam E-mail scammers have shifted their sights from a staple diet of banks, betting shops and auction sites to government agencies, with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) calling in Australian Federal Police over a spam deluge that tries to send taxpayers to Trojan-infected Web sites. 
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
New Sysbug-A virus on the prowl The Sysbug-A virus has been set loose and is attacking what one security firm is calling the usual suspects — Windows users.
Monday, October 20, 2003
Internet security: more threats, less time to stop them Report finds 20 per cent increase in so-called 
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
Security hole found in FTP servers PGP Security's Computer Vulnerability Emergency Response Team (COVERT) has notified three vendors that new vulnerabilities have been discovered in their FTP (file transfer protocol) server software, a PGP official said Monday.
Thursday, December 16, 1999
IETF moves ahead on IPv6 In its battle to get IPv6 widely deployed, the Internet engineering community is pursuing an infiltration strategy reminiscent of the Trojan War.
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