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The 'multi-component' malware threat
News According to Ducklin, about 80 per cent of all infected web pages are on compromised, legitimate sites. Malware is becoming increasingly complex, designed with multiple components that target different enterprise weaknesses, according to industry... [02 Jul 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News Spam emails are often used in phishing attacks or to deliver malware it says, distributed by networks of compromised botnet computers which are also used for denial of service attacks. The UK Threat Assessment of Serious Organised Crime pinpoints a... [06 Jun 2008]
Web-based malware up 400 per cent
News Landesman said: "Over the last year malware authors have moved away from direct attacks - attacks in which they directly interact with victims, via social engineering for example - to indirect attacks accomplished through compromised websites. [06 Jun 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News Fast-flux service networks are networks of compromised computer systems with public DNS records that are constantly changing, making it more difficult to track and control criminal activities. The Storm worm botnet, a network of compromised... [07 May 2008]
Security threat: One web page infected every five seconds
News Released Wednesday, Sophos said in its Security Threat Report that an average of more than 15,000 web pages were compromised daily between January and March. About 79 per cent of compromised web pages tracked this year belong to legitimate websites... [24 Apr 2008]
Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
News A compromised ATM could result in a network being forced offline, and/or lost customer data and stolen identities. ATMs today face the internet-born threat of worms and denial of service attacks, as well as being at risk from malware that can... [04 Mar 2008]
Google warns: Malicious 'drive-by downloads' on the up
News According to a Google source, Google security researchers report compromised sites to StopBadware.org, a clearinghouse for web malware research run by Harvard Law School, Oxford University and technology companies including Google, Lenovo and Sun. [20 Feb 2008]
Europe dishing out more spam than US
News The security vendor called this a "significant shift" in spam trends as, historically, compromised US computers have been used to send spam mail, and many spammers have been US-based. More broadband means compromised computers can send spam faster... [07 Feb 2008]
Macs no longer safe from cyberattacks
News According to Ducklin, around 6,000 malicious web pages are created every day - one every 14 seconds - of which 83 per cent reside on websites belonging to legitimate companies and individuals, who are unaware their sites have been compromised. [23 Jan 2008]
Web 2.0 threat looms
Comment They can however be a major security headache if the third-party source is compromised, because RSS and Atom would simply import the compromised information. Web search giant Google estimated in May 2007 that as many as one in 10 websites was... [26 Nov 2007]
Russian malware gang goes to ground
News Genes added some Brazilian sites and some US government ones, which he declined to identify specifically, had been compromised through SQL injection attacks to make them point to other RBN sites compromised with malware. [12 Nov 2007]
'Security not just about user education'
News Runald said systems are often compromised in spite of the user practising safe computing. Runald also noted that the technology is available to cause serious damage on mobile devices: "All the pieces are in place for a mobile malware outbreak. [15 Oct 2007]
Cyber criminals building more but smaller botnets
News The zombie army can be controlled remotely with the botnet creators usually trying to build the largest possible botnet of compromised computers to rent out to gangs for as little as $100 for a couple of hours. [28 Sep 2007]
A Hybrid Approach for Misbehavior Detection in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
White Paper Such networks are highly vulnerable to routing misbehavior due to malware, fault or compromised nodes. In wireless ad-hoc networks, the Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol is sometime used in routing traffic among participating wireless nodes. [01 Aug 2007]
How to insure your IT
Comment In the US it has a dedicated IT security insurance policy for financial data which covers electronic theft, denial of service, electronic vandalism and compromised data during electronic communication. [17 Jul 2007]
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