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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 code on blog pages and... [23 Jul 2008]
Malware threat for iPhone 2.0
News Howard Schmidt, former advisor to the White House on cyber security, similarly noted in April that the availability of SDKs for mobile devices increases the likelihood of malware writers creating malicious code specifically for mobiles. [14 Jul 2008]
MSDN Webcast: Enterprise Device Management and Mobile Application Security (Level 200)
White Paper The presenter shows how to secure information as it is transmitted over the air and stored on devices, how to connect securely to network infrastructures, and how to avoid viruses, malicious software (malware), and spyware. [05 Jul 2008]
Anti-malware: Top of the list for Internet Explorer 8
News Perhaps the most anticipated addition is Internet Explorer's new anti-malware protection. Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3 both recently added anti-malware protection. Using mostly its own anti-malware technology, Microsoft will block emerging threats by... [03 Jul 2008]
Banque Misr Safeguards Profitability and Reputation With Improved Threat Management
White Paper With its IT systems and customer data at increased risk from viruses and malware, Banque Misr needed to find an effective way to protect its new infrastructure against these threats. Banque deployed CA for its solution, using CA Anti-Virus, the... [02 Jul 2008]
Managed Service Offers Hassle-Free Malware Protection
White Paper Did you know that on average, newly deployed or otherwise unprotected PCs are compromised by malware within just 30 minutes of connecting to the Internet? After all, malicious coders are very skilled at finding and exploiting previously undetected... [19 Jun 2008]
Web-based malware up 400 per cent
News The amount of web-based malware on legitimate sites has increased by more than 400 per cent since last year, according to security vendor ScanSafe. In a security report entitled A comparative look at the state of web security, May 2007-May 2008... [06 Jun 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. In response to claims last week by Austin Wilson, director of Windows client... [21 May 2008]
Microsoft hits back at Vista security critics
News Software giant Microsoft has claimed user "complacency" is to blame for malware infections, and denied that its Vista operating system is less secure than Windows 2000. However, recent research conducted with statistics from over 1.4 million... [16 May 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News The two possible avenues of attack are spam with links to the as-yet-unlinked-to fast-flux sites, or injecting malicious iFrame tags into legitimate websites, which would download malware onto users' machines, warned Symantec. [07 May 2008]
Mobiles to come under attack from 'bad guys'
News He explained: "As SDKs became more available for PCs people wrote malware, viruses, worms and applications that looked like legitimate things but in reality were stealing data. He said the availability of software development kits (SDKs) for mobile... [24 Apr 2008]
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, and E-Mail Attacks (Level 300)
White Paper This webcast shows how Microsoft IT manages the large quantities of unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) and malicious software (malware)-infected messages in its inbound Internet e-mail traffic. The presenter then explains how Microsoft IT cleans... [11 Apr 2008]
Towards More Effective Virus Detectors
White Paper Viruses (or malware) are a scourge, with potentially unlimited fraudulent uses. The Internet has also brought an ugly side of computers: a plethora of malware. Home computers are most vulnerable to attacks by malicious programs and hackers. [11 Apr 2008]
The Challenge of Non-Viral Malware ...
White Paper Viruses and worms, if they work, always have malicious intent. The result of a viral infection is essentially a denial of service, since it denies you the use of your computing resources until the problem is fixed. [10 Apr 2008]
Malicious software overtakes friendly apps
News Malware now makes up the majority of all new applications: 65 per cent of the 54,609 applications developed and released to the public for Windows-based PCs in the past six months were malicious, according to Symantec's latest threat report. [09 Apr 2008]
