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PCs at five hospitals struck down by virus
News The incident echoes an earlier infection at the Barts and The London NHS Trust, where hospital PCs were struck down by the Mytob worm. I is for IM The Conficker B virus infected 800 out of the 7,000 PCs... [21 Jan 2009]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm, the malware which contributes to the Storm botnet, is continuing to evolve and now has two further possible avenues of attack. The original Storm... [07 May 2008]
Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
News An early warning of this insecurity in modern ATMs came in 2003 when the Nachi Internet worm infiltrated "secure" networks and infected ATMs from two financial institutions, while the SQL Slammer worm... [04 Mar 2008]
Storm botnet 'services' for hire?
News The Storm botnet was initially created at the beginning of 2007 when the Storm Worm was spammed out, hiding in email attachments with a subject line of "230 dead as storm batters Europe". Only a small fraction of... [17 Oct 2007]
Mac virus threat still "insignificant"
News One recent threat that affected some Apple users, called "Badbunny", was a worm that threatened OpenOffice documents. I is for IM So far this year, Apple users have been exposed to the kind of... [12 Jul 2007]
Securities Firm Avoids NASD Penalties With FaceTime IMAuditor
White Paper FaceTime IMAuditor provides 100% accurate message archiving, supervisory review, workflow standards and integration with WORM storage systems. Instant messaging (IM) is posing supervisory, recordkeeping... [16 Jun 2007]
Britain's Open University Switches to FaceTime for Instant Messaging Management
White Paper As a solution OU chose FaceTime's IMAuditor, which provides virus, worm and SPIM protection through pattern-matching rules. There was also a need to provide a record of IM conversations - who talked to... [16 Jun 2007]
Chat worm warning for Skype users
News The worm, dubbed Pykse.A, is similar to threats that affect IM applications. The IM worm affects Skype users running Windows. Skype has acknowledged in the past that its... [17 Apr 2007]
Network horror stories expose need for understanding
Comment This open door for malicious attack was duly used and a worm caused havoc on the network. Skype, IM and P2P were all new once, though many people have still not implemented rules for these. Here Will... [12 Apr 2007]
CIO Jury: Viruses still a major security threat
News While the days of the mass-mailer worm like Sasser may be over, the virus and Trojan Horse threats are becoming more intelligent and subtle, according to Ian Auger, head of IT and communications at ITN. [25 Jan 2007]
IM worm installs rogue browser
News A new instant messaging worm installs a rogue web browser called "Safety Browser" and hijacks the user's Internet Explorer homepage, experts have warned. The worm, dubbed "yhoo32.explr" by FaceTime... [23 May 2006]
Santa worm makes merry hell with IM
News The IM.GiftCom.All worm attempts to dupe IM users into thinking an acquaintance has sent them a link to a harmless Santa Claus file, according to a security advisory issued on Tuesday by... [21 Dec 2005]
AIM worm chats with intended victims
News A new worm that targets users of AOL Instant Messenger is believed to be the first that actually chats with the intended victim to dupe the target into activating a malicious payload, IM security vendor... [07 Dec 2005]
Warning over IM worm explosion
News Of the worms related to IM services, 36 per cent were tuned to more than one public network and 13 per cent had the capability to spread through all four major IM networks. This indicates threats are... [01 Dec 2005]
AIM worm exhibits new, nasty tactics
News IM worm and malicious code attacks are happening more than ever before. The worm was spotted in an AOL IM chatroom and infected one of the PCs that FaceTime uses for... [31 Oct 2005]
