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Virtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News L is for Love Bug A virtual illness wiped out entire servers of users in World of Warcraft in 2005 when a design flaw allowed the disease to spread throughout low level players. V is for Virus variants [28 Aug 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News L is for Love Bug It is also interesting to note the move from simply using social-engineering techniques to spread malware to actually exploiting vulnerabilities. V is for Virus variants Fast-flux service networks are networks of compromised... [07 May 2008]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News L is for Love Bug 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. V is for Virus variants [10 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News L is for Love Bug Scroggie said the spread of malicious code was expected to increase, with the growing use of portable data-storage devices. V is for Virus variants The report states "66 per cent of phishing attacks in the US were directed towards... [09 Apr 2008]
Nato: Cyber terrorism 'as dangerous as missile attack'
News L is for Love Bug 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. V is for Virus variants [07 Mar 2008]
Microsoft Outlook: Security Features and Vulnerabilities
White Paper The "Love Bug" and the "Melissa" viruses were mainly perpetuated using Outlook. It examines the structure of the address book, and the method in which most viruses spread. Microsoft Outlook has been a favorite victim of virus makers for its... [20 Feb 2008]
Repartee for Windows E-mail Integration
White Paper The "Love Bug" and the "Melissa" viruses were mainly perpetuated using Outlook. It examines the structure of the address book, and the method in which most viruses spread. Microsoft Outlook has been a favorite victim of virus makers for its... [20 Feb 2008]
How the good guys fight the security arms race
News L is for Love Bug L is for Love Bug The data is spread everywhere. V is for Virus variants V is for Virus variants As CTO at security company RSA, Hartman is responsible for defining the corporate security technology strategy for RSA's parent... [15 Feb 2008]
Web 2.0 security risks being ignored
News L is for Love Bug 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... [31 Jan 2008]
Rootkit to protect Trojans goes live
News L is for Love Bug 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... [10 Jan 2008]
Storm botnet 'services' for hire?
News L is for Love Bug Only a small fraction of infected hosts spread the worm. V is for Virus variants By only allowing a small number of hosts to propagate the virus and act as command-and-control servers, Storm is resilient against attack. [17 Oct 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News L is for Love Bug The C-level nature of the targets clearly indicates that the attackers are after information, said the spokesman, but the greater concern is the social engineering technique used to spread the Trojan-harbouring email. [26 Sep 2007]
The A to Z of security
News A 23-year-old computer programming student from the Philippines, Onel de Guzman, was charged in June 2000 with releasing the Love Bug but the case against him was dropped as the Philippines had no law against virus writing. [14 Nov 2006]
5 years ago: Melissa variant upgraded to high-risk category
News In more recent times we have seen the likes of the Love Bug, Klez, MyDoom, Sasser and Blaster. Apart from the many variants such as the one above spawned by Melissa, it represented the start of a huge rise in the number and seriousness of self... [06 Dec 2004]
5 years ago... US firms reel as Melissa virus spreads
News Melissa has arguably been surpassed by the likes of the Love Bug, Klez and MyDoom in more recent times but in terms of notoriety this 1999 infection still stands head and shoulders above most subsequent viruses. [29 Mar 2004]
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