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RSS hackers infectedHackers target fake ads to steal IDs
News The ad warned visitors to NYTimes.com that their computer may be infected with a virus and redirected them to a site that purports to scan the computer and offers to sell antivirus software. Instead of hacking into major... [16 Sep 2009]
Enterprise Threat Management (ETM): Bringing Security Together Through Intelligence
White Paper Enterprises are still being infected with undetected, targeted malware - evading traditional perimeter and host defenses. Professional hackers are in it for the profit now and are creating sophisticated... [01 Jul 2009]
Web Security Gateways Executive Summary
White Paper With security vendor Sophos reporting discovery of one new infected Web page every 5 seconds, it estimate that the Web is now the vehicle for 60% of all malware and intrusion attempts against enterprise computing systems. [30 Jun 2009]
Symantec Reports Malicious Web Attacks Are on the Rise
White Paper This means online users can be infected simply by visiting Web sites they believe they can trust. Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report shows that hackers are increasingly compromising... [29 May 2009]
Teen Twitter worm writer lands job in IT
News Twitter fought off four waves of worm attacks last weekend and into Monday in which Twitter users were infected just by clicking on the name or image of someone whose account was infected. The worms... [20 Apr 2009]
Researchers uncover "vast" computer spy network
News The network they found possessed remarkable "Big Brother-style" capabilities, allowing it, among other things, to turn on the camera and audio-recording functions of infected computers for potential in-room monitoring,... [30 Mar 2009]
£800: How much SMEs will lose to cybercrime
News The figures contrast with crime targeted at large enterprises, 65 per cent of which have seen an increase in cybercrime attacks, with a quarter having suffered a DDoS attack or had their corporate systems infected by... [20 Feb 2009]
PCs at five hospitals struck down by virus
News The Conficker B virus infected 800 out of the 7,000 PCs at five hospitals in Sheffield, leading to a "small number" of patient appointments being cancelled, according to a spokeswoman for the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals... [21 Jan 2009]
UK consumers worth £14k each to cyber criminals
News A fifth of small UK businesses have been a victim of an internet scam and one third of companies have been infected by a virus, a separate GSO survey of about 1,000 businesses with fewer than 10 employees also found. [17 Nov 2008]
Virtualisation: At risk from attack
News It's not to say you'll be a sitting duck - it's just [more risky] because there's so much in one machine, [so] should that one machine be broken into or infected by something then the consequences are more severe than if... [20 Oct 2008]
Malware-infected site detected every five seconds
News According to the Sophos security threat report Blogspot.com, the blog publishing system owned by Google, was found to be hosting two per cent of the world's web-based malware in June 2008 - with hackers hosting malicious... [23 Jul 2008]
The 'multi-component' malware threat
News According to Ducklin, about 80 per cent of all infected web pages are on compromised, legitimate sites. H is for Hackers The first component will trigger off "a chain of other components that seek to... [02 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment DIY, maternity problems, HIV/Aids, infected water supplies per year. Hackers are smarter and younger than you. Written at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands and dispatched via an airline lounge wi-fi... [28 May 2008]
Vista security under scrutiny, again
News The company found that of 190,692 Vista machines, 121,380 were infected with at least one piece of malware, while some were infected by up to 19 pieces of malicious code. Clausen denied that such a large... [21 May 2008]
Security threat: One web page infected every five seconds
News Web threats have risen significantly in the first quarter of 2008, with one web page being infected every five seconds, according to a report from security vendor Sophos. In contrast, the daily average for the entire... [24 Apr 2008]
