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Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes. This creation pictured is from a phishing program. See our photo story for more weird and wonderful creations. [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Viruses and Trojans come to life
Photo This is the Storm virus which has formed one of the largest ever botnets with around two million computers compromised by it. Security software firm MessageLabs, has turned a number of cyber threats into works of art using the malicious computer... [06 Mar 2008]
Photos: Driving safety through tech
Photo It shows an IP phone under attack from an online virus. silicon.com went along to NEC's R&D labs in Heidelberg, Germany, to see some of the technology it has been developing. Some of the projects include technology to improve road safety, boost the... [21 Jan 2008]
Photos: Inside the malware hunters' den
Photo The honeypot's findings appear sporadically on the left hand screen in the shot - which is currently showing a 3D representation of a virus. F-Secure's mobile bunker (pictured) is where the response team can observe and analyse viruses as they pass... [28 Sep 2007]
Caption Competition 4: What are Hu laughing at?
Photo And of course Vista will be safe from any virus as long as you buy Windows Defender" This competition is now closed. Below are the best captions submitted. WINNER: Hu Jintao breaks the tragic news that the Chinese coastguard have lost contact with... [17 Nov 2006]
Photos: Inside Moscow's Kaspersky Labs
Photo Here he talks about the changing face of the virus writing community, with spotty teenagers, keen to prove themselves through some manner of mischief, making way for serious cyber criminals. One analyst looks on as the other attempts to unpack... [25 Jan 2006]
Photos: How does spyware get on your PC?
Photo Speaking at the Virus Bulletin 2005 conference in Dublin, Eric Chien, senior antivirus researcher at Symantec, outlines the common ways users are picking up spyware. Pop-up windows which suggest security updates and clock settings are available, or... [11 Oct 2005]
Photos: Tracking the hackers
Photo CyberTrust's application known as 'The Brain' tracks and monitors the activity of hackers and hacker groups who are involved in everything from virus writing to around 3,000 website defacements each day. [10 Oct 2005]
Photos: Inside the antivirus control centre
Photo Mikko Hypponen, CTO at F-Secure, talks through the data and describes the arms race which is going on between the antivirus industry and the virus writers who are increasingly involved in wider, offline organised crime. [12 Sep 2005]
