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Trojan horse captures your online banking details
News The company said that once installed, the Trojan waits for users to visit their online banking websites, captures passwords and takes screenshots of the session. Antivirus company Sophos is warning that... [11 Nov 2004]
'eBay' worm starts to spread
News If the network directory is password protected, Myfip attempts to log in as the administrator using a number of common passwords, which are listed on Symantec's site. The company expects Myfip to be difficult for... [26 Oct 2004]
Mac virus alert - users' details at risk
News Ducklin said Opener disables Mac OS X's built in firewall, creates a back door so the malware author can control the computer remotely, locates any passwords stored on the hard drive and downloads a password cracker... [25 Oct 2004]
Microsoft to offer anti-spyware, says Gates
News They pick very guessable passwords. Microsoft has been testing a for-fee antivirus product, though the company has not announced details of how it will offer it. The company purchased Romanian... [04 Oct 2004]
Virus alert: Rbot sets your webcam to spy on you
News As well as getting an insight into homes and businesses across the world, the worm also allows the malware writer to take a look at information on the infected machine's hard drive and to steal passwords, as well as... [23 Aug 2004]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 2)
Comment How can the average home user check their computer for any keystroke tracking program that can lift passwords and PINs used for online banking sites and such like? Alice Hollis asks: "How can the average home user check... [05 Aug 2004]
Renegade program stealing passwords at banking sites
News A malicious program that installs itself through a pop-up can read keystrokes and steal passwords when victims visit any of nearly 50 targeted banking sites, security researchers warned yesterday. In reality, it's two... [30 Jun 2004]
Unpatched Internet Explorer holes found
News The flaw is not banking-specific," Cluley said, however, phishers could exploit the flaw to run a key logger, capturing internet-banking passwords typed on the computer's keyboard. US-CERT advises that users disable... [14 Jun 2004]
Canadians arrest teen over Randex worm
News The Randex worm and its variants contain a list of commonly used passwords used to hack into Windows systems. Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research at Finnish firm F-Secure, was also contacted... [27 May 2004]
Leader: Don't blame your staff - train them
Leader Simply educating your staff - about opening emails when they don't recognise the sender or sharing passwords - can stop the social engineers and virus writers in their tracks. Companies will always need firewalls,... [20 Apr 2004]
Bagle author learns his lesson from anti-spam
News Kevin Hogan, senior manager at Symantec Security Response, said that Norton Antivirus will also be able to detect the new variants: "This is not going to impact our detection - we don't rely on [text... [16 Mar 2004]
Personal Firewalls: Firewall Protection for PCs and Home Networks
White Paper With this access, a hacker can browse the hard drive and add or delete files, discover passwords and credit card numbers, and set the system up to launch attacks on other systems or websites. As a result, firewall... [25 Feb 2004]
Password-stealing Dumaru worm on the loose
News Antivirus vendors are split between calling this variant Dumaru.Y or Dumaru.J (depending how many previous variants they have detected and named since the first version first appeared in August 2003), but there is... [27 Jan 2004]
Screensavers more secure than network passwords
News Activating a password-protected screensaver on users' desktops can provide more protection from unauthorised access than strong network login passwords, according to security firm TruSecure. Heiser said that when users... [03 Oct 2003]
Virus warning: Deloder targets password idiocy
News This worm, unlike others such as Klez, requires no user interaction to spread - it exploits common passwords, such as "password" and "computer", in share directories in Windows NT/2000/XP machines and hence spreads... [10 Mar 2003]
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