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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]
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 two possible avenues of attack are spam with links to the as...
[07 May 2008]
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. Speaking to silicon.com at Infosec 2008 in London, former advisor to...
[24 Apr 2008]
News The company noted that the sites of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and even security vendors, have fallen prey to malware attacks. According to Sophos, only one in 2,500 email messages contained malware - 40 per cent fewer than 2007...
[24 Apr 2008]
News Employees and insiders are bigger threats to corporate security than external threats such as denial of service attacks or malware. Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging...
[17 Apr 2008]
News While sales staff bleed corporate bandwidth dry with non-work related activity, the carelessness of home and branch workers is introducing malware onto the business networks, a survey of 250 UK IT managers found.
[11 Apr 2008]
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]
News The key security threats facing businesses range from mutations of established methods - such as malware or phishing - to less well-known ones, such as metasploit releases and 'pass the hash' attacks.
[09 Apr 2008]
News The report also notes vulnerabilities in websites are increasingly popular malware vectors as they allow for more sophisticated and multi-stage attacks. The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 "phishing hosts", an...
[09 Apr 2008]
News This is wrong, and borders on malware distribution practices. Mozilla CEO John Lilly has hit out at Apple, accusing the company of doing a disservice to Windows users everywhere by including its Safari browser as a default add-on installation in...
[25 Mar 2008]
News ATMs today face the internet-born threat of worms and denial of service attacks, as well as being at risk from malware that can harvest customer data or hijack machines. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.
[04 Mar 2008]
News The US, which had been the second largest producer in prior surveys, is now in third place, accounting for a slightly less than 10 per cent of malware. PC Tools malware analyst, Sergei Shevchenko, said in a statement: "The vacuum left by the RBN...
[21 Feb 2008]
News Drive-by downloads are caused by URLs that attempt to exploit their visitors and cause malware to be installed and run automatically. The Google researchers investigated billions of URLs over the past year-and-a-half, and found more than three...
[20 Feb 2008]
News Mobile operators are being warned to take security more seriously as the rise of the mobile internet and richer data services creates new security challenges and raises the spectre of mobile malware. And while a greater proportion of users have...
[11 Feb 2008]
News The BSA warned that using unlicensed software also risks loss or corruption of vital data and IT systems, citing research by the IDC that revealed one in three counterfeit products contain spyware, malware or viruses.
[07 Feb 2008]
News Sjostedt said: "We've moved away from traditional, individual spammers, to loosely tied groups of spam senders, malware coders and people selling access to botnets. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.
[07 Feb 2008]
News The basic version of the tech - called Google Message Filtering - costs £1.50 per user per year and includes Postini's filtering system to block inbound spam and malware. The Google software as a service (SaaS) security tech has been developed...
[05 Feb 2008]
News Rashke warned traditional security tools - such as firewalling - did not go deep enough into rich content to determine whether it was a security risk - either incoming as malware or outgoing as data leakage.
[31 Jan 2008]
News The security challenge for Mac users centres on the development of more intelligent malware-delivery mechanisms, which detect the platform being used by a web surfer and then deliver an appropriate threat.
[23 Jan 2008]
News A gang that specialises in the theft of banking information through Trojans is attempting to protect its work by spreading a rootkit that veils malware. Until late in December 2007, the Master Boot Record (MBR) rootkit had been a proof of concept...
[10 Jan 2008]
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