malware in comment and analysis
Leader: Ethical hacking - launch, teach... hope
Leader However, attitudes to such courses are mellowing since the University of Calgary first announced it was to teach a course in malware writing and it's likely there will be a fair amount of approval for the teaching of penetration testing (as... [19 Jun 2006]
Analysis: A globetrotter's guide to cyber crime
Comment The most important factor in understanding the limitations of such generalisations is that malware and hack attacks can be launched from anywhere and by anybody. That ISP figure points towards a hidden menace which further blurs the boundaries of... [09 May 2006]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment Now botnets and phishing dominate malware. Hypponen has recently detected the first Java malware on a phone, meaning it could affect most handsets and not just the high-end models. But what's next? Ron Condon reports. [12 Apr 2006]
Banks aiming to alleviate online banking fears
Comment Fraudsters, he explained, will still be able to use the 'man in the middle attack', where phishers set up dummy websites to intercept single-use passcodes, or use malware to piggyback on a session once a user logs into their account. [28 Mar 2006]
Minority Report: Mac OS X virus scares
Comment Firstly, the malware must be accepted via iChat, then the user must double-click on the file to decompress it, then double-click the 'jpeg' to view it. However, the indisputable fact that Mac OS X's Unix core is fundamentally more secure than... [03 Mar 2006]
Analysis: What is a smart phone?
Comment Unlike most mobile phones, smart phones can be subject to malware. As the 3GSM show gets underway in Barcelona, Jo Best tries to tie down one of the buzziest terms in mobile. According to the analysts, tens of millions of smart phones went flying... [13 Feb 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.02.06
Round-Up In our Malware news column published on 1 February 2006 entitled "Millionaire accused of being part of hacker gang" and our Weekly Round-Up column published on 3 February 2006 we reported that Matthew Mellon, the well known member of the Mellon... [10 Feb 2006]
Inside Kaspersky Labs: AV at the cold heart of Russia
Comment They learn much of what they know on the job, despite the fact Kaspersky tells silicon.com he's not opposed to the growing and controversial trend of malware finding itself on the university curriculum. [25 Jan 2006]
Leader: Why teach students malware techniques?
Leader The arguments for and against teaching students the techniques of the malware community have kicked off again this week, at the Virus Bulletin conference, after a PhD candidate from the University of Calgary walked delegates through a technique... [06 Oct 2005]
Leader: Agenda Setters 2005 - return of the dot-coms
Leader Last but not least, it's no surprise - given the continued disruption to business and user's lives from malware and spam - security makes a big showing. Symantec CEO John Thompson (15) is the rep from the vendor community, while the authors of... [27 Sep 2005]
Leader: Agenda Setters 2005 - return of the dot-coms
AS Analysis Last but not least, it's no surprise - given the continued disruption to business and user's lives from malware and spam - security makes a big showing. Symantec CEO John Thompson (15) is the rep from the vendor community, while the authors of... [26 Sep 2005]
Security in the spotlight
AS Analysis Of course the issue of malware is never going to be far from the security debate and those responsible, whether we like it or not, are Agenda Setters. The business use of malware means organised crime began to employ those with the ability to turn... [26 Sep 2005]
Leader: Filter out the fraud
Leader ISPs and website hosts have repeatedly managed to avoid taking responsibility for any content that passes through their hands, so fraudulent and malware-ridden emails are still reaching the end user. With the growing number of email scams out there... [07 Sep 2005]
Leader: Can security hype ever be justified?
Leader A lone voice in the 'serious threat' camp is the only security company to be offering a widely available product protecting users against the problem of mobile malware. But it says that may be what is necessary to stop mobile phones falling prey in... [02 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.08.05
Round-Up The next time you leave the office after a hard day updating your antivirus protection and tank down the motorway in your beloved motor with wireless gadgets a-blazing, rest assured that pesky malware authors have absolutely no chance of infecting... [12 Aug 2005]
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