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Microsoft MD5 Hack Poses No Major Threats To Users
In reaction to the news today that security researchers have come up with a way to spoof the digital certificates that secure many Web sites, Microsoft downp... More »
'Boom year' For Hi-Tech Criminals
If 2007 was witness to the rise of the professional hi-tech criminal, then 2008 was the year they got down to work. Statistics gathered by firms combating the rising ti... More »
Digital Photo Frames May Pose Threat
Amazon.com Inc. last week warned customers running Windows XP that a Samsung digital photo frame it sold through earlier this month might have come with&n... More »
Training Key To Tackling e-Crime
The UK is facing a growing wave of internet crime, according to the latest annual Virtual Criminology Report from security specialist McAfee. Published this week, the report&... More »
U.S. Computers Generate Most Malware
American websites host more malware and computers relay more spam than any other country, the latest security report showed. As evidence of this, when an Americ... More »
ScanSafe Predicts Doom And Gloom In 2009
Web security firm ScanSafe has released its predictions for 2009, painting a bleak view of a landscape littered with malware. ScanSafe warned of a boom in the use of ... More »
FBI Warns Of Vishing Threat
The FBI has issued a warning to companies about scammers spoofing voice over IP (VoIP) calls by exploiting PBX exchanges. The warning concerns Asterisk software that is ... More »
Facebook Virus Spreads To Bebo
A Trojan dubbed "Koobface" that has recently been hitting some users of the social network Facebook is now spreading to other popular social networking sites, according t... More »
Facebook Worm Refuses To Die
The worm program that has been tricking Facebook users into downloading malicious software since July has resurfaced. Facebook would not say exactly how many of its users have been... More »
Firefox Users Hit By Password-Stealing Trojan
Mozilla Firefox users are being targeted by a new Trojan that steals online banking passwords. According to security researchers at BitDefender, Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A identif... More »
Brown Urged To Keep Hacker In UK
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been urged to halt the extradition to the US of computer hacker Gary McKinnon. Mr McKinnon, from Wood Green, north London, faces up to 70 years in ... More »
Britain Seizes 'Dangerous' Fake Game Consoles
British customs officials issued a pre-Christmas warning on Friday after seizing fake Nintendo game consoles with potentially dangerous power adaptors. The products, versions of N... More »
Facebook Users Hit By Koobface Virus
Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus dubbed "Koobface" that uses the social network's messaging system to infect PCs, then tries to gather sensitive... More »
2009 Could Be Banner Year For Malware
Malware volumes exploded in 2008 and could herald an even worse 2009, according to security experts. MessageLabs said in its Annual Security Report that a number of new cyber-crime... More »
15 Million New Malware Types Discovered In 2008
A total of 15 million new malware strains will have been detected by the end of this year, but the security industry is panicking in its attempt to keep up with the scale and sophi... More »
Microsoft Warns Of Attack Exploiting Windows Vulnerability
Microsoft is warning users of a malicious Internet worm after detecting a wave of attacks exploiting a recent critical Windows security vulnerability. The worm has the potential ... More »
Estonian ISP Cuts Off Control Servers For Srizbi Botnet
An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, has cut off those servers, accor... More »
Security Firm: Google's Orkut Being Used To Spread Trojans
Someone is using Orkut to spread Trojan links in a message disguised as an official e-mail from the Google-owned social network, according to an alert from security firm Websense r... More »
Alarms Sounded Over Flash Drive Infections
The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-Cert) is warning users and administrators to be on the lookout following the discovery of a malware outbreak being spread via USB keys. ... More »
Microsoft Yanks Fake Security Software
Microsoft said that the anti-malware tool it pushes to Windows users as part of Patch Tuesday removed fake security software from nearly a million PCs during nine days this month. ... More »
Trojan Pilfers Thousands of Classified Bank Data
A Trojan horse launched by a sophisticated group of cybercrooks was able to make its way to bank'computer systems, stealing thousand of online bank account log-ons as well as cred... More »
Google Used to Attack Facebook
Google's websites are currently used by attackers to prey on Facebook. Researchers at Fortinet, a unified threat management vendor, revealed that a malicious program comparable to... More »
Financial Malware Gets Harder to Beat
A study has shown that despite the decline in new programs, crooks are still able to find their way around committing online fraud. Though the research concluded that a downwar... More »
New Trojan Lurks, Disguises as Microsoft Email
Microsoft is now being used by cybercriminals to easily prey users by sending fake phishing emails disguised as a message coming from the company but actually contains a "bac... More »
Single Trojan Dominates Attacks Made in September
Fortinet, the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, revealed that Rogue Security Trojan has accounted for 60% of malware infections in Septemb... More »
Cybercrooks Target Kiwibank
Internet scammers have found a new prey by which they could amass personal information from. New Zealand's Kiwibank customers have been receiving bogus emails claiming&nb... More »
Adobe Flaws Rising
Another Adobe vulnerability exploit toolkit, known as PDF Xploit Pack, has been identified by Secure Computing's Anti-Malware Research Labs. The toolkit is labelled as &ldqu... More »
Limbo Malware Attacks Online Banking
A Trojan horse program, known as Limbo, is now compromising banking data by adding data entry fields to legal banking sites and dupe customers to provide sensitive information lik... More »
Kaspersky Warns Over Trojans, Mobile Phone Worms
Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab has circulated a mid-year report on contemporary trends in malware and spam emails. The report consisted of a list of malware threats divide... More »
Phony Facebook Emails Carry Trojans
Facebook users are now the subject of malicious attacks on the net. An email containing a Trojan virus is being circulated among Facebook members disguising as an invitation to be... More »
iPhone Game Carries Windows Malware
Another malware is on the prowl which deliberately strikes PC users. Security firm Sophos has disclosed the coming out of the Penguin Panic imitations loaded with malware desig... More »
Quick Time Zero-Day Attack Code Circulated
A hacker has released an attack code that manipulates an unfixed flaw in QuickTime, a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. Quicktime is capable of handling various form... More »
Brad Pitt Proclaimed Most Threatening Man on the Net
According to McAfee, a security vendor, Brad Pitt has been found to be the most threatening search name used on the internet this year. Fans who search the actor's nam... More »
BusinessWeek Undergoes SQL Injection Attack
News magazine BusinessWeek has become the latest prey of cyber-crooks using SQL injection attack. According to Sophos, a security firm, the company had hundreds of pages fro... More »
Spam Campaign Uses "Net Addiction"
Sophos, a security softwae and hardware vendor, has reported a malicious spam campaign threatening to cut off users from the internet resuting from their online actvities. The ... More »
Nuclear Explosion Spam Centers on Sydney
Residents of Sydney, Australia are the target of an email spam claiming that a nuclear explosion hit a Sydney suburb. The spam, which contains an attachment that would steal ... More »
New Means of Creating Fake YouTube Pages Exposed
Researchers have come accross a new application that can be used in building forged YouTube pages designed for launching malware attacks. Cyber-criminals could possibly use thi... More »
PCs Infected by Forged Anti-Virus
Panda Security has identified an increase fake antivirus infecting PCs. These counterfeit software often carry Trojans or other malware unknowingly installed by several users. ... More »
Trojans Lead Top Ten Virus Threats
In a report conducted about virus attacks, Trojans were among top ten major threats on internet users. Clicker.CM topped the list which is an ad-serving trojan. Three variants ... More »
Users Warned on Obama Sex Scandal Spam
Web monitoring organizations are alerting IT administrators on a spam claiming to have a link to a web site that displays a video footage of US presidential candidate Barack Obama... More »
McAfee Promotes 'Cloud-Based" Malware Defense
McAfee, an antivirus software and computer security company, has unveiled new malware-signature software updates that should result in faster detection and correction ... More »
Picasa and Flash Used as Spam Tools
Spammers have expanded their reach to photo editing software, Picasa and mutimedia software, Flash. Images and files from these softwares are used as attachments to email sp... More »
South Korea Charges the North of Spyware Attacks
South Korea's military command and control center has been steered with a series of spyware attacks allegedly operated by North Korea. The attacks were administered through ... More »
Malware Attacks Peak in July
Scansafe, a security provider, has disclosed that the number of malware it blocked in July 2008 was 34 per cent more than in the whole of 2007. The first two weeks of July r... More »
"Hijacked" Babies Used to Bait Spam Victims
Spammers have gone too far to widely spread their malicious content. According to researchers SophosLabs researchers, spammers have commenced a social engine... More »
Malware Spotted at the International Space Station
The International Space Station was not spared from ruthless malware attacks which usually target regular internet users . The attack code, W32.Gammima.AG, infected at least ... More »
Habbo Hotel Preyed by Phishers
Habbo Hotel is reported to have been attacked by phishers through stealing their user account names and details. What's deeply troubling is that the attackers were able to l... More »
Phishers Retaliate with Malware Strike
Securityworks reported yet another form of malware attack initiated by the people behind Asprox botnet. The botnet, now at least 50,000-strong with bots, is spamming message... More »
Olympics Spam Leads to Malware
Secure Computing, an enterprise security firm, has warned internet users of another malware outbreak through email spams. Emails containing Olympics headlines as a subject could p... More »
Cyber Crooks Find New Form of Malware Attack
Cyber criminals have thought of an unprecedented way to attack internet users. Panda Security's anti-malware laboratory found two mock P2P application installers, BitRoll-5.0.0.0 ... More »
Botnet Herder Facing Five Years in Jail
A Federal Grand Jury in New Orleans has charged a Brazilian with trying to damage and infect over 100,000 computers with a malicious botnet program that could have launched denial... More »
New Browsers Combat Malware
New browsers such as Firefox 3, and Opera 9.5 are battling against the endless malicious attacks plaguing them for quite some time. They have added a new security that ... More »
Windows and Mac Users on Another Web Attack
Web users, especially those of Mac and Windows, are now caught in another serious web attack targeting the clipboard where copied text is stored. Users are asked to follow a link ... More »
Malware Spreading Through Fake News Bulletins
Security vendors have warned users of another malware outbreak disguised as news bulletins from credible sources like CNN. Hackers have found another way to attack PC’s thro... More »
MobileMe Users Tricked by Phishing Scams
Apple Inc.’s Mac and MobileMe users are now targeted by phishing scams which collect credit card and other personal information. The scams reportedly deceive 100 to 200 user... More »
Blue Screen of Death Attacks Olympics
The dreaded Blue Screen of Death was shown in one of Beijing Olympics stadium projector while the opening ceremony was conducted. It was not too noticeable as spectators centered ... More »
VMware's Licensing Bug Blocks Virtual Servers
The newest addition to VMware's wide array of software updates has reportedly blocked corporate users from starting their virtual servers. VMware verified the error and confirmed t... More »
Facebook Assures Site's Security
Facebook's security chied, Max Kelly, claims that the site is safe after several attacks. According to him, they have identified and blocked the ability to link the malicious websi... More »
The Olympics Pave the Way for More Hack Attacks
The start of the 2008 Olympics has spawned more malicious email attacks across various regions. These email attacks can come in the form of malicious emails tricking people ... More »
Faux-CNN Spam Blitz Delivers Malicious Flash
Are you going to be the next CNN? Could your website currently be serving of malware? It's getting pretty nasty out on the open internet these days and not only are... More »
'Autoimmune Disease' attacks Wi-Fi Networks
Wi-Fi Networks are now the subject of a brutal attack of 'autoimmune disorder'. It is triggered by sending specially crafted packets to some networks that use open source and comme... More »
New Worm Threatens Social Networking Sites
A new worm is being spread throughout some social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace. It is sent through messages that appear to be coming from the friends profiles. The... More »
Most Security Breaches Go Unreported
An RSA survey found the e-mail-borne malware and phishing that affected 69% of respondents' companies, may not have led to serious consequences in every instance. But 29% of ... More »
AVG Antivirus Link Scanner Spews out fake traffic
Bundled with AVG's newest Anti Virus engine, AVG 8 comes with Link Scanner used by over 20 million people worldwide. Link Scanner checks for viruses and malware before you cl... More »
