malware in news
RSS malware in newsiPhones under attack from Rick Astley worm
News Some iPhones have come under attack from a worm that replaces the devices' default wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley - the pop star whose 'Never Gonna Give You Up' song is the subject of the Rickrolling prank craze. [09 Nov 2009]
Phishers set their sights on corporate accounts
News Fraudsters have attempted to steal an estimated $100m from corporate bank accounts using malware and money mules, the FBI said yesterday. The scammer will typically target the people who handle financial transactions in... [04 Nov 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Another possible use for monitoring could be to help prevent damage to computer systems by identifying careless internet and email users who are downloading malware or accessing potentially risky websites. [22 Oct 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News Scareware is fake security software, often heralded by an ersatz dialogue box warning unsuspecting users that their PC is under attack by malware or that it's at risk of a virus infection. Needless to say, after victims... [19 Oct 2009]
Online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News Banking industry body Financial Fraud Action UK warned that online fraud is becoming increasingly sophisticated, with fraudsters targeting customers using malware and phishing scams. Online banking fraud jumped by 55 per... [07 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Software also hit the headlines in September, as silicon.com reporter Nick Heath explored why malware writers are turning to open source in their attempts to garner victims' financial details. Once again, September saw... [06 Oct 2009]
Who's afraid of malware? Four in 10 have never had a virus
News Despite an ever-increasing amount of malware in the wild, almost four in ten respondents to a silicon.com poll have never been hit by a virus. The poll suggests that successful virus attacks could be becoming less... [05 Oct 2009]
Online fraudsters enlist Trojans to run off with your money
News About 90,000 computers visited the sites housing the malware and 6,400 of them were infected, a 7.5 per cent success rate, he said. Potential victims' computers get infected either by opening an email and clicking on a... [30 Sep 2009]
Google's Chrome-in-IE tech means higher malware risk, says Microsoft
News Given the security issues with plug-ins in general and Google Chrome in particular, Google Chrome Frame running as a plug-in has doubled the attach area for malware and malicious scripts. Accessing sites using Google... [28 Sep 2009]
Why malware writers are turning to open source
News Malware developers are going open source in an effort to make their malicious software more useful to fraudsters. By giving criminal coders free access to malware that steals financial and personal... [18 Sep 2009]
Hackers target fake ads to steal IDs
News Instead of hacking into major online sites to embed malware, malicious hackers are going in through the front door by exploiting security holes in systems for delivering ads. First, they can download... [16 Sep 2009]
Norton 2010: Gunning for mutating malware
News Debuting on Wednesday, both the basic Norton AntiVirus 2010 and the more robust Norton Internet Security 2010 will use Quorum, which Symantec is calling an advanced security network based both on traditional malware... [09 Sep 2009]
WordPress blogs under spam, malware attack
News A worm is circulating that can post malware and spam to some WordPress blogs using outdated versions of the blogging software, according to a post by Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress. The worm can be tough... [07 Sep 2009]
Snow Leopard for free? Most likely to get malware instead
News People eager to get a copy of the latest version of the Mac operating system, Snow Leopard, should be wary of sites offering free copies because they are likely to get some nasty malware instead, according to antivirus... [28 Aug 2009]
Apple's Mac OS 'lagging behind Vista on security'
News The post cites unnamed reports about an anti-malware feature being added. Contrary to popular Mac fanboy belief, Macintosh is not more secure from a software standpoint than modern Windows; it's merely safer to use... [27 Aug 2009]
