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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. A number of nascent Storm hosting domains using fast-flux techniques to mask their...
[07 May 2008]
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. The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics...
[10 Apr 2008]
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. The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 "phishing hosts", an increase of...
[09 Apr 2008]
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. Suleyman Anil, head of Nato Computer Incident Response Capability Co...
[07 Mar 2008]
whitepaper 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...
[19 Feb 2008]
whitepaper 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...
[19 Feb 2008]
News L is for Love Bug L is for Love Bug The data is spread everywhere. During his career as an US Air Force officer he was assigned to the National Security Agency where he helped create the Department of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation...
[15 Feb 2008]
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]
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]
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]
Comment In days gone by, a company would know it was under attack because its network would grind to a halt - as with mass mailing worms such as the Love Bug. Day said: "Now it's more about manual infection or self infection and pretty slow spread rates.
[28 Mar 2007]
News L is for Love Bug L is for Love Bug 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...
[14 Nov 2006]
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]
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]
News Levenhagen: It is arguable that the Love Bug and Nimda viruses have been the worst viruses we have seen, in terms of spread and damage potential. Then came social engineering - best utilised by The Love Bug and Kournikova.
[11 Nov 2003]
Comment And yesterday's piece about the origin of the word 'bug' contained more than just a grain of truth. Why do IT myths get spread? When, a month or so ago, silicon.com threw down the gauntlet, asking for the most outrageous, believable or plain...
[01 Aug 2003]
News However, Shipp said the infection is nowhere near as severe as the Love Bug or Melissa. The Love Bug managed to infect one in 28 emails globally whereas Klez has only infected one in 200. In addition, an old bug in Microsoft's Outlook software...
[29 Apr 2002]
Cheat Sheet Headline-grabbing outbreaks such as Melissa and Love Bug demonstrate that just because an email appears to come from someone you trust, it doesn't mean it's safe. Some viruses are deliberately designed to damage files or otherwise interfere with...
[26 Mar 2002]
News Recent viruses such as Magistr and SirCam are able to carry on spreading for months after they have first been detected because their design is subtler than those that caused earlier outbreaks such as the Love Bug and Melissa.
[17 Sep 2001]
Comment The initiative came about as a response within the MoD to attacks from Melissa, the Love Bug and the Anna Kournikova viruses over the last year. It has developed new anti-virus software that stops the spread of the virus rather than avoiding...
[30 Apr 2001]
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