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Virtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News For instance, sloppy scripting in some online games allows viruses to auto-execute and propagate. There are also phishing attempts and messaging spam luring members to... [28 Aug 2008]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News Earlier this month Barclays offered all its online customers free Kaspersky security software, including parental controls as well as protection from spam, adware, spyware and viruses.... [18 Jul 2008]
Barclays gives online users free security software
News The package from Kaspersky protects from adware, spyware, viruses and provides parental control and spam filters. Barclays director of digital banking Sean Gilchrist... [01 Jul 2008]
Brits living in fear of identity fraud
News Computer security is less of a priority in the UK, the index found only a third are very concerned about viruses and spam, with 38 per cent not concerned at all. Identity fraud,... [20 May 2008]
BT Yahoo! Mail suffers email update glitch
News Photos: Viruses and Trojans come to life security update to protect people from spam and a handful of customers have been affected who use external email clients.... [31 Mar 2008]
Russia overtakes China as king of malware producers
News The bottom line is that there are more viruses and spyware coming out of Russia now than ever before and the complexity of this malware is also increasing. Russia is also known as a... [21 Feb 2008]
Top 10 security stories of the year
News This year has seen a shift from viruses, botnets and spam swamping the security headlines, to the loss of personal information by private and public organisations -... [13 Dec 2007]
Pump-and-dump MP3 email spam warning
News No viruses or Trojans have been detected in any of these attachments yet and Malta-based security company GFI Software has recorded an example of this MP3 spam here. An outbreak of... [19 Oct 2007]
Cyber criminals building more but smaller botnets
News The malware writers are also getting lazy, according to F-Secure, and are no longer attempting to catch out companies by using increasingly complex viruses. F-Secure employs a 16-strong response team in... [28 Sep 2007]
Data theft scam targets CEOs
News Sunner told silicon.com: "Although the numbers are tiny compared to major spam campaigns or the more common emails carrying viruses, in context this is very dramatic. While most email users are familiar... [02 Jul 2007]
In brief: Top wi-fi, zombie attack, paradise lost, malware costs
News The FBI is to contact more than one million PC users who have been infected by Trojans and had their computers hijacked by criminals for the sending of spam and viruses.... [15 Jun 2007]
Worst week for viruses in a year?
News Ultimately, computers infected with this virus become unknowing "zombies" in a botnet that are used to send out spam and further the attacks. The largest proliferation of email virus attacks in more than... [16 Apr 2007]
Next-generation Skype Trojan hits web
News Kurt Sauer, Skype chief security officer, said on Friday: "Harmful viruses and Trojan horses may damage a user's computer and collect private data, regardless of whether a person is... [26 Mar 2007]
Google flags up dodgy sites
News Palfrey said: "The initial idea was to say that law in the ordinary sense of the word has not been doing a good job with these highly distributed problems - spyware or viruses or spam. Google has started... [07 Aug 2006]
Virus writer suspects bagged by police
News A 63-year-old man in Suffolk, a 28-year-old man in Scotland, and a 19-year-old man in Finland were arrested in connection with "an international conspiracy to infect computers using viruses attached to... [28 Jun 2006]
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