Over 200 major incidents have been detected by PandaLabs in a two-hour span due to the mass-mailing of spam messages carrying files infected with the Spamta worm.

Surge in browser bugs this year, says Symantec

Robert McMillan - September 25, 2006

Hackers found 47 bugs in Mozilla Corp.'s open-source browsers and 38 bugs in Internet Explorer (IE) during the first six months of this year. That's up significantly from the 17 Mozilla and 25 IE bugs found in the previous six months, according to Symantec Corp.'s twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report.

New worm may be hard to fight

Nancy Gohring - September 19, 2006

A sophisticated computer worm spreading via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) was setting up a botnet that could be difficult to combat, security researchers said.

Firms losing security war, expert says

Sumner Lemon - September 19, 2006

Companies are losing the battle to secure their IT systems from attacks by hackers and other threats, warned Bruce Schneier, the founder and chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security Inc. in a speech webcast at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB).

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