viruses a virus in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up The next big tech event to be held at the Moscone Center is the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, which kicks off at the start of June and as everyone knows: Mac users don't get viruses. Officials believe it was norovirus, a particularly nasty... [16 May 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment Back in the distant past of 2003 the threats were different - viruses, spam, hackers, SQL Slammer and so on. V is for Virus variants A short cyber crime story on Al Jazeera TV on Sunday made me realise that this year's Infosec show in London had... [29 Apr 2008]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Viruses were no longer just an outlet for notoriety-seeking geeks, but a key part of a serious criminal business proposition. Boot-sector viruses gave way to macro viruses in the mid-1990s. Viruses are firmly established in the public consciousness. [19 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment Viruses - is the threat over? If we stop worrying about (and therefore protecting ourselves from) viruses, then that's what the malware writers will turn their attention back to. I use proper antivirus (etc), updated hourly, so viruses arriving on... [04 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Report from spam hell
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. Shipping all new machines with firewalls and virus protection built in to reduce the number of systems which get... [19 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.10.06
Round-Up Some wags have even suggested Apple may have installed the viruses intentionally in order to advertise the insecurity of Windows.which might be stretching things a little. Also, putting aside the conflicting double meanings of 'not catching it... [20 Oct 2006]
Leader: Why Orange has been a bit green on security
Leader The fact of the matter is that there are no mobile phone viruses which pose a real threat to users and there's very little likelihood that mobile phones will be targeted by virus writers for quite some time, if at all, in any concerted and... [17 Jul 2006]
Minority Report: The new 'Get a Mac' ads
Comment The characterisation is clear and it's no coincidence that the two 'computers' seem to have been modelled on Steve Jobs and Bill Gates - though a Gates who has clearly been driven to a diet of pork pies and cheeseburgers by all the viruses... [08 May 2006]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment Gone are the days of simple worms and viruses. F-Secure has now detected 179 mobile phone viruses and estimates that some tens of thousands of handsets are infected. We are seeing less of the big virus outbreaks such as Sasser and Blaster, and so... [12 Apr 2006]
Minority Report: Mac OS X virus scares
Comment In a statement he warns: "Some owners of Mac computers have held the belief that Mac OS X is incapable of harbouring computer viruses but Leap.A will leave them shell-shocked, as it shows that the malware threat on Mac OS X is real. [03 Mar 2006]
Inside Kaspersky Labs: AV at the cold heart of Russia
Comment With its military background, it sounds a note of pragmatism which acknowledges that all the pot plants, pool tables and 21st century office space in the world won't help Kaspersky's high-flying Silicon Valley rivals fight viruses any more... [25 Jan 2006]
Leader: Can security hype ever be justified?
Leader There's a lot being written about mobile phone viruses at the moment, some of it warning of a growing threat, some of it warning of serious over-hyping of the problem. But Finnish security firm F-Secure refuses to bend on the issue of mobile phone... [02 Sep 2005]
The Minority Report: The state of Mac OS X security
Comment As the Linux user base has grown over the last few years, a few viruses for the open source operating system have been spotted in the wild, they assert. There are one or two older macro viruses for Word for Windows that could modify a user's... [03 Jun 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.02.05
Round-Up And back to the subject of dodgy press releases, a security announcement which arrived in the editorial inbox this week claimed the total economic damage from malware - viruses and the like - in 2004 may have been as high as $204bn. [04 Feb 2005]
Opinion: A bad case of worms
Comment With phishing scams, viruses, worms and hacker attacks on the rise, Simon Moores looks at what can be done to make the internet a safe place to communicate and do business. They are aware of the issue and believe someone has hijacked their domain... [21 Dec 2004]
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