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Comment Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware. Today, I look at my slide deck from Milan and see that we have entire internet relay chat networks controlled by the criminal underground economy, that...
[29 Apr 2008]
Comment Existing vulnerabilities in browsers and Java can allow hackers to compromise users' machines through malware and access confidential information. Because it can allow attackers to run code in the user's browser, the possibilities are limitless...
[26 Nov 2007]
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ From CIO to consultant: Knowing when to say no ¦ Photos: Six unusual power sources ¦ Malware: From bedroom to boardroom ¦ Betfair betting...
[22 Nov 2007]
Comment Once the preserve of bedroom-bound teenagers, malware is now big business and aimed at financial gain rather than peer group recognition. By the end of the decade, the growth of email gave malware an effective infection route into new machines.
[19 Nov 2007]
Comment Ask any network administrator and they will tell you virus, malware, malicious cookies etc are alive - its just we have got bettew at stopping them. This step-change in financial markets is less than a month away, which is worrying, for some diams...
[04 Oct 2007]
Round-Up In a world of rampant malware and malicious hackers there's also a need for a 'chief inoculation officer'. At least that's according to the latest silly season whitepaper from EDS to land in the silicon.com inbox.
[31 Aug 2007]
Comment TJX Group, which lost millions of credit card records after malware was installed on its server, could have been insured, but such insurance would need a dialogue between the client, the broker and the underwriter.
[17 Jul 2007]
Round-Up We live in an age where malware is increasingly proving a threat across device platforms and not solely for web-connected PCs. 'What do we want? Windows XP! When do we want it? NOW! A few years back Microsoft could have only dreamed of such levels...
[27 Apr 2007]
Comment Make no mistake, says Anthony Plewes, VoIP is an attractive target for hackers and malware writers. Though there is precious little evidence of VoIP security attacks, organisations cannot afford to be complacent.
[04 Apr 2007]
Comment Mark Osborne, chief information security officer at carrier Interoute, says: "The biggest risk that Skype presents is not the breaking in to steal corporate assets, it's the threat from viruses and keyword loggers in malware.
[02 Apr 2007]
Comment Dave Rand, chief technology officer of anti-malware company Trend Micro, says: "So many internet-connected machines have been compromised that even small DoS attacks measure around 2Gbps with large ones in the 17Gbps range.
[22 Mar 2007]
Comment We have the ability to be able to track down and destroy individual viruses and other forms of malware enlisted by the dark side. From the first time I used email up to the present it has been one of my primary business tools.
[19 Feb 2007]
Comment Meanwhile the volume of spam continues to increase - not just the number of messages but also their size as picture, video and sound files are increasingly attached to spam to entice users to activate malware.
[18 Dec 2006]
Comment Steve Clarke, head of internal computing at AOL UK, added: "Unfortunately the reduced risk from malware and lower licence costs don't outweigh the cost and pain of transition and cross-skilling the support function and user-base.
[08 Nov 2006]
Comment We are going to have to build a bigger net for starters, and then the ISPs, plus the rest of industry, will have to take a very serious look at the threat posed by those responsible for virus attacks and other malware.
[21 Aug 2006]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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