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Microsoft: Trojan threat is rising
News Of the computers serviced by Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool, which runs on every PC that gets Windows updates, an average of 10 out of 1,000 are found to be infected worldwide, Stathakopoulos said. [04 Nov 2008]
Malware-infected site detected every five seconds
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... [23 Jul 2008]
Coming soon - malware threats to 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... [14 Jul 2008]
Mobiles to come under attack from 'bad guys'
News He said the availability of software development kits (SDKs) for mobile devices -like the one launched by Apple for the iPhone - increases the possibility of malicious code being designed specifically... [24 Apr 2008]
Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts
News Jordana Siegel, deputy director of outreach and awareness in the National Cyber Security Division of the US Department of Homeland Security, said: "We're seeing a constant increase in malicious code... [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... [09 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News While the report found that most attacks continue to occur and originate in the US, China is becoming increasingly important as a source of malicious code. Scroggie said: "Russia was implicated in the... [09 Apr 2008]
Macs no longer safe from cyberattacks
News A serious threat to all computer systems comes from websites that have been planted with malicious code, which exploit flaws in applications such as Internet Explorer, and Apple's... [23 Jan 2008]
First iPhone Trojan reported
News However, when a user attempted to uninstall the malicious code, the application wiped files from the /bin directory, breaking 'Erica's Utilities' such as sendfile. Cox wrote in a blog post: "This is... [09 Jan 2008]
Gmail cookie flaw 'puts email at risk'
News It's just a proof of concept at the moment but what they're demonstrating is the potential to use this vulnerability for malicious purposes. According to Gatford, attackers could compromise a Gmail account - using a... [27 Sep 2007]
Viruses - is the threat over?
News This is despite recent research from Symantec, which said it had received 212,101 reports of new malicious code threats during the first six months of 2007, a 185 per cent increase on the previous six... [26 Sep 2007]
Cyber criminals turn pro
News The security company said it received 212,101 reports of new malicious code threats during the first six months of 2007 - a 185 per cent increase on the previous six months. The security company said... [17 Sep 2007]
Phishers jump on the iPhone bandwagon
News Henry said: "This threat is particularly insidious in that scripts within the HTML code returned to the user contain exploit code for multiple vulnerabilities to improve the... [03 Jul 2007]
Chat worm warning for Skype users
News Pykse also visits a number of websites that don't host any malicious code and a site that appears to count infected machines, F-Secure said. Clicking the link will redirect the user to a... [17 Apr 2007]
Worst week for viruses in a year?
News According to warning notices from Postini - as well as VeriSign, which has also been following the threat - clicking on the executable file in one of the new Storm Worm emails installs a rootkit with anti-security... [16 Apr 2007]
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