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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. Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm, the malware which... [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. The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics... [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. People are employing programmers dedicated to the production of those threats," Scroggie said. [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. Anil believes the threat will continue to grow as terrorist groups... [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... [19 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... [19 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. 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]
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]
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]
Do you know what's happening on your network?
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]
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]
The virus at 20: Two decades of malware
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]
Virus warning: Klez keeps on spreading
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]
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