computer virus in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up Officials believe it was norovirus, a particularly nasty type of virus that spread by touching dirty surfaces. According to an Associated Press report, workers at the conference centre disinfected surfaces including food preparation tables... [16 May 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment V is for Virus variants Simply throwing a firewall at your system won't cut it, says Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University's computer laboratory. In reality, good security requires fundamental organisational... [28 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment V is for Virus variants Of 482 large businesses surveyed by Computer Associates, 62 per cent were holding sensitive, regulated data such as credit card details or health records. Michael Small, director of security management strategy at Computer... [10 Mar 2008]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment But in 2003, the malware landscape was irrevocably changed by the arrival of the Sobig virus. The arrival of the first major Mac virus based on the Zlob worm has spawned a whole raft of imitators, as malware writers look to compromise this growing... [19 Nov 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No locks?
Comment It would cost nothing to add a firewall and virus protection to all new machines, and then send them to the stores pre-configured with 'shields up' so that the unsuspecting customer has some degree of protection. [15 Mar 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.10.06
Round-Up It seems a computer - which had clearly been connected to the internet and was involved in the manufacturing process at a third party - was infected with the RavMonE virus, rated as a low risk (though that's not really an acceptable justification... [20 Oct 2006]
Minority Report: Apple changing its spots
Comment Apple is clearly in its strongest position for years to tilt its lance at the disaffected Windows users, who are sick of security woes and virus headaches and are tired of waiting for Vista. Parallels, released just a few days after the public beta... [11 Jul 2006]
Minority Report: The new 'Get a Mac' ads
Comment In 'Virus', the snuffling, sneezing PC explains that he's caught a 'doozy' of a virus, one of the 114,000 that exist for the PC platform and tells the Mac to stand well back. Apple must now hope they don't generate animosity in the virus writing... [08 May 2006]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment We are seeing less of the big virus outbreaks such as Sasser and Blaster, and so some people believe the situation is getting better, when in fact it is getting worse," says Mikko Hypponen, chief technologist at security company F-Secure. [12 Apr 2006]
Minority Report: Mac OS X virus scares
Comment The news of the virus was heralded by some security experts as the shape of things to come. Indeed, the most interesting aspect of the virus is the social engineering hook that the malware author uses to tempt the average Mac user. [03 Mar 2006]
Leader: When context gets lost in the post
Leader Yesterday we saw a news story appearing widely across the web, warning about the latest computer virus to circulate. On this occasion F-Secure faced some criticism for scaremongering when really all it did was share some fairly anecdotal virus... [24 Feb 2006]
Inside Kaspersky Labs: AV at the cold heart of Russia
Comment Even with its cover and author's name written in Cyrillic, it's difficult to miss the fact that one of the virus analysts is currently reading a book by Kevin Mitnick - the poster child of computer hacking. [25 Jan 2006]
Leader: Why slagging off the press ignores the real issue
Leader Attendees at last week's Virus Bulletin conference agreed that bot-nets are among the biggest threats to global IT infrastructure and businesses at present - and the war on these networks of compromised machines has to be won in suburbia by... [10 Oct 2005]
Security in the spotlight
AS Analysis In the past, virus writers were seen as disaffected loners, scripting programs in their mum's basement. The growth of the security industry and the continuing evolution of the threat landscape, and the subsequent importance businesses, consumers... [26 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.08.05
Round-Up The next time you leave the office after a hard day updating your anti-virus protection and tank down the motorway in your beloved motor, bear in mind that security experts are now warning that pesky malware authors may be able to infect your... [12 Aug 2005]
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