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Warning: The Storm still rages on

News A is for Antivirus It is also interesting to note the move from simply using social-engineering techniques to spread malware to actually exploiting vulnerabilities. B is for Botnets Fast-flux service networks are networks of compromised computer...

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Call to increase online data protection for teens

News A is for Antivirus The rules that limit websites and marketers from collecting data on children under 13 may spread to teens as old as 18 if a group of child advocates has its way. B is for Botnets The group - which includes the American Academy of...

Tags: myspace, facebook

[10 Apr 2008]

Phishers attack social networking generation

News A is for Antivirus Scroggie said the spread of malicious code was expected to increase, with the growing use of portable data-storage devices. B is for Botnets The report states "66 per cent of phishing attacks in the US were directed towards...

Tags: social networking, phishers

[09 Apr 2008]

Nato: Cyber terrorism 'as dangerous as missile attack'

News A is for Antivirus Countries also need to resolve issues of law enforcement across national boundaries and the technical challenges of tackling the spread of cyber crime, he added. B is for Botnets Suleyman Anil, head of Nato Computer Incident...

Tags: nato, terrorism, security, war

[07 Mar 2008]

Mobiles on the moon? Nasa prepares trial for takeoff

News A is for Antivirus He said: "The robots and astronauts would be spread out from the base to do exploration and some sorts of comms infrastructure would be needed. B is for Bluetooth Wireless from A to Z

Tags: moon, space, nasa, message

[19 Feb 2008]

How the good guys fight the security arms race

News A is for Antivirus If you just focus on things like patching the operating system or antivirus those sorts of things are not effective at countering that sort of threat. A is for Antivirus The data is spread everywhere.

Tags: data loss, rsa, data security, sending

[15 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday

Comment A is for Antivirus Alphabet soups of acronyms do nothing to endear the customer to the industry, he tells us, and merely spread confusion's pestilence which is, of course, terrible for business. B is for Bluetooth

Tags: mobile world congress, china, john, talk

[13 Feb 2008]

Web 2.0 security risks being ignored

News A is for Antivirus Externally, banks are responding to customer demands that their interactions with their bank mirror the other interactions they are used to on the internet while internally banks are using web 2.0 tools to communicate and...

Tags: web 2.0, security, banking, banks

[31 Jan 2008]

Rootkit to protect Trojans goes live

News A is for Antivirus The MBR rootkit does not appear as a single file, which means the code can be spread across different sectors of a disk and therefore cannot be deleted as a usual file, according to research by GMER - a company that produces...

Tags: rootkit, trojan, malware, record

[10 Jan 2008]

Trojan targets companies' top brass

News A is for Antivirus It shows that signature based antivirus is not enough; you need more technology than that. The C-level nature of the targets clearly indicates that the attackers are after information, said the spokesman, but the greater concern...

Tags: social engineering, malware, trojan

[26 Sep 2007]

Council cuts costs of wireless network testing

News A is for Antivirus The council's senior systems analyst Chris Davies said: "Total investment in wireless technologies made by the authority is approximately £90,000 spread out over a number of different projects.

Tags: school, council, testing, wireless

[03 Aug 2007]

Wireless power has techies beaming

News A is for Antivirus But while such examples are excellent for the wireless transmission of information, it is not feasible for substantial power transmissions because radio waves and wi-fi radiation spread in all directions and vast amounts of power...

Tags: switch, plug, mit, electricity

[08 Jun 2007]

Techies split over wi-fi health fears

News A is for Antivirus The issue will remain a talking point with wireless networks continuing to spread across cities and rural areas. B is for Bluetooth Readers were asked whether they are worried about the health implications of the increasing use...

Tags: spread, networks, schools, health

[24 May 2007]

The A to Z of security

News Once a virus has been detected the antivirus software will quarantine it, so it cannot spread, then attempt to erase it and repair any file-damage caused. Click on the links in the box for the security A to Z - from antivirus to zero-day.

Tags: orange, extradition, os x, google

[14 Nov 2006]

Zotob worm fails to wreak havoc

News As of Monday morning on the west coast of the US, the original Zotob.A had infected about 50 computers worldwide, and the first variant, Zotob.B, had compromised about 1,000 systems, the antivirus software maker said.

Tags: zotob, windows 2000, virus, worm

[16 Aug 2005]

Virus Top 10: Sober return topples Zafi

Virus Top 10: Sober return topples Zafi

News IT managers in their daily firefight against viruses saw a massive spike in the instances of Sober-N as it displaced Zafi-D atop the 'least wanted' list provided by antivirus firm Sophos. That message text, as well as subject lines referring to...

Tags: sober, world cup, zafi, virus

[01 Jun 2005]

Virus Top 10: Zafi.D gives users an unhappy Christmas

Virus Top 10: Zafi.D gives users an unhappy Christmas

News The most reported virus last month, according to antivirus firm Sophos, was Zafi.D, first spotted halfway through December and taking over 36 per cent of all virus reports. The new variant of Zafi.D managed to spread so quickly due to its timely...

Tags: virus, sophos

[06 Jan 2005]

Virus Top 10: No surprises in 2004

News This indicates most people have still not updated their antivirus, and we believe it's mainly coming from home users, who then spread them to businesses. It is simply shocking that Netsky-P and Zafi-B are still infecting computers, months after...

[09 Dec 2004]

Microsoft banner ad attack hole patched

News The viruses, called Bofra.A and Bofra.B by antivirus companies, were loosely based on the source code of MyDoom. Microsoft published a patch for Internet Explorer on Wednesday, aiming to close a month-old hole that has been used to spread viruses...

Tags: bofra, iframe, fix

[02 Dec 2004]

Skulls Trojan carries worm into handsets

News Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure, said that Skulls represents only a mild threat to mobile device users at this point, based on its Trojan horse design. The Trojan horse, though, can only be downloaded and does not spread...

[30 Nov 2004]

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