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RSS malware antivirusEurope dishing out more spam than US
News A is for Antivirus Sjostedt said: "We've moved away from traditional, individual spammers, to loosely tied groups of spam senders, malware coders and people selling access to botnets. Security from A to Z [07 Feb 2008]
Google launches online security tools
News A is for Antivirus The basic version of the tech - called Google Message Filtering - costs £1.50 per user per year and includes Postini's filtering system to block inbound spam and malware. The Google software as a service (SaaS) security tech has... [05 Feb 2008]
Web 2.0 security risks being ignored
News A is for Antivirus Rashke warned traditional security tools - such as firewalling - did not go deep enough into rich content to determine whether it was a security risk - either incoming as malware or outgoing as data leakage. [31 Jan 2008]
Reducing Security Administration Time by 60 Percent for More Efficient City Government With Symantec and Novacoast
White Paper The existing antivirus software lacked the ability to implement security software updates across a heterogeneous network. Fending off viruses and other malware was straining IT resources at the City of Aurora, Colorado. [18 Jan 2008]
Rootkit to protect Trojans goes live
News A is for Antivirus A gang that specialises in the theft of banking information through Trojans is attempting to protect its work by spreading a rootkit that veils malware. Until late in December 2007, the Master Boot Record (MBR) rootkit had been a... [10 Jan 2008]
Bot attacks target those looking for romance
News A is for Antivirus PC Tools senior malware analyst, Sergei Shevchenko, said in a statement: "As a tool that can be used by hackers to conduct identity fraud, CyberLover demonstrates an unprecedented level of social engineering. [10 Dec 2007]
Google calls for help in flagging up the bad guys
News A is for Antivirus Google is hoping its users will report "bad sites" to help the company fight criminals exploiting the company's infrastructure to distribute malware. According to the Google security blog, the search giant already knows about... [04 Dec 2007]
Cyber spies plan attacks next year
News A is for Antivirus Other major trends over the coming calendar year include an increasing threat to online services - such as banking - and the emergence of a complex and sophisticated malware market, according to the annual Virtual Criminology... [30 Nov 2007]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment The botnets grew too quickly, were difficult for them to control and were large blips on the radar screens of the antivirus vendors. It has been so successful because there have been so many variants that can bypass antivirus [AV] systems if users... [19 Nov 2007]
Russian malware gang goes to ground
News Raimund Genes, chief technology officer for Trend Micro's antivirus division, said: "It feels like their upstream providers put them on a black list and terminated services to this problematic customer. [12 Nov 2007]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News A is for Antivirus According to Harris: "A few days ago a new wave of phishing attempts that included attached malware - software that secretly installs viruses or keyloggers - appeared and seemed to be targeted at a broader group of customers. [08 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment I use proper antivirus (etc), updated hourly, so viruses arriving on my PC are detected and cannot cause infection. Ask any network administrator and they will tell you virus, malware, malicious cookies etc are alive - its just we have got bettew... [04 Oct 2007]
Cyber criminals building more but smaller botnets
News A is for Antivirus But researchers at antivirus company F-Secure have reported seeing these large networks being broken down into smaller groups of compromised computers because the creation of large botnets is not creating as much revenue for such... [28 Sep 2007]
Photos: Inside the malware hunters' den
Photo Antivirus company F-Secure's labs in Finland (pictured) are the heart of its operations monitoring and detecting malware activity around the globe. Mobile security is a relatively new arena for the antivirus company, but as F-Secure CEO, Kimmo... [28 Sep 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News A is for Antivirus It shows that signature based antivirus is not enough; you need more technology than that. C-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cyber criminals using malware-infected RTF (Rich Text File) documents... [26 Sep 2007]
