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IBM blade slashes security threat

News The IBM blade aims to reduce security threats, such as viruses and denial-of-service attacks, by performing real-time analysis of network activity so malicious traffic... [04 Sep 2008]

Storm botnet 'services' for hire?

News It wouldn't be a surprise if the network was used for spamming, distributed denial of service attacks, and other malicious activities. Stewart said the good news is security researchers... [17 Oct 2007]

DoS attack could shut down the net

News The security manager said: "We've had to upgrade our hardware in the last week to cope with an unexpected increase in the volume of malicious traffic at the network... [26 Sep 2007]

iPhone, Gmail and blogs - a corporate security nightmare

News Forrester highlighted Bluetooth, insecure home wireless networks and "evil twin" malicious public wi-fi hotspots as particular security risks to corporate IT security. Blogs, social... [15 Jun 2007]

IE lets attackers hijack network traffic

News As a result, an attacker with access to a network, for example, at a corporation could insert a malicious proxy and see all the traffic, the researchers said. Microsoft said in its... [26 Mar 2007]

Alert over Spybot worm

News An updated variant of a malicious bot program is spreading via a flaw in Symantec's antivirus software as well as through several holes in Microsoft code. More than 43,000 new variants of such insidious programs were... [30 Nov 2006]

Wi-fi hijack risk for Macs

News An attacker could exploit the flaw by crafting a malicious frame and making it available on a wireless network used by vulnerable Macs, Apple said. Apple's security patches come a month... [22 Sep 2006]

Microsoft issues largest patch batch to date

News Microsoft has issued patches for 21 flaws in its software, saying all but two of them could let an intruder run malicious code on a compromised computer. Bitle said: "These [vulnerabilities] take advantage of two... [14 Jun 2006]

World Cup security: Avaya poised to tackle DoS attacks

News Avaya's business development manager in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Roger Jones, said he expected malicious computer users to reprise the to-date unsuccessful attacks against the networks servicing the 2002 World... [09 Jun 2006]

Skype - is your version secure?

News A recent vulnerability in Skype for Windows allows an attacker to steal a file from a victim's PC, provided the victim has visited a malicious website and the attacker knows the file's location. The most secure option,... [30 May 2006]

Virus alert: Nyxem set to spring on 3 February

News Ironport's Steer said: "Nyxem is certainly malicious. This will cause additional email and network traffic, and possible slow down email response time. Businesses have been warned to... [27 Jan 2006]

Cisco flags flaws in VoIP and router software

News None of the vulnerabilities were disclosed before the advisories and Cisco said it is not aware of any malicious use of the flaws. VoIP technology allows companies to send voice traffic over the same... [19 Jan 2006]

"Toothless" online safety drive 'will fail without ISPs'

News According to Peachey, as much as 80 per cent of traffic leaving an ISP network may be made up of malicious data. Matt Peachey, regional director at email security firm... [25 Oct 2005]

Mobile porn at risk of DoS attacks, says Gartner

News Speaking at the Virus Bulletin conference in Dublin, Graham Cluley of Sophos questioned whether malicious hackers would be able to target mobile phones in the same network cell. Denial of service attacks... [25 Oct 2005]

Gartner: Don't believe the tech security myths

News There has been a lot of coverage of the 'evil twin' threat - whereby a malicious individual poses as a legitimate wireless provider to con users into connecting a wireless device to a rogue hotspot in order to gain... [25 Jul 2005]

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