virus writers
RSS virus writersA Multi-Layered Approach to Preventing Viruses
White Paper As virus writers create increasingly sophisticated malicious code and find ever more effective methods to propagate, enterprises find themselves scrambling to keep their networks, servers, and end-user... [12 Nov 2009]
Symbian security slip-up: Trojan passes security test
News Virus writers scan their malware, and keep modifying it until it passes the filters," said Hypponen. The Symbian Foundation has acknowledged that its process for keeping malicious applications off... [20 Jul 2009]
Future Trends in Virus Writing
White Paper This paper tries to summarize the possible prospective ideas that are likely to be used by the virus writers in the future and to suggest what kind of measures could be taken against them. Some of them... [18 May 2009]
When IT security becomes a gothic horror story
Comment Perhaps as a dark warning that we'll never win the battle against hackers and virus writers? The RSA Conference in San Francisco, the big annual get together for the great and the good of corporate IT... [21 Apr 2009]
CIO Jury: Businesses need netbooks
News The jury's approval of netbooks for enterprise use comes in contrast to suggestions the portable computers are lacking the required security to be viable business tools and their low computing power could make them vulnerable to hackers... [10 Mar 2009]
eBay: Let us look inside your PC
News From this year, eBay will open the doors on a new site offering malware scanning to its users as part of a raft of new features aimed at beating the phishers and virus writers. The site, eBay Garage,... [23 Feb 2009]
Why You Need an Email Exploit Detection Engine: The Danger of Email Exploits
White Paper Virus-writers are using increasingly complex and sophisticated techniques in their bid to circumvent anti-virus software and disseminate their viruses. A case in point was the notorious... [01 Feb 2009]
Mac antivirus warning removed by Apple
News There are no known viruses in the wild that exploit a vulnerability in the Mac OS, and Windows continues to be the overwhelming preference for malware writers to target their programs. Apple's previous security message... [03 Dec 2008]
Zero Hour Virus Outbreak Protection: A Key Layer in Complete Enterprise Email Security
White Paper Virus writers have identified the weak-point of traditional AV engines - the time it takes to develop protection for new viruses - and have exploited it to their advantage by flooding the Internet with... [18 Nov 2008]
Photos: A day in the life of a virus hunter
Photo Wüest said that some malware writers even install their own antivirus software to keep their competitors in crime at bay. Wüest and his team have to decrypt everything inside the malware and contend with the anti-reverse... [09 Oct 2008]
CIH Data Corruption and a Data Recovery Technique in FAT32 Systems
White Paper Day in day out, new virii are being spawn by virus writers all over the world. Virus is a very important phenomenon in to-days world. There seem to be no geographical boundary when it... [07 Oct 2008]
First iPhone 2.0 antivirus software released
News Antivirus company F-Secure has not received any reports of malware for the iPhone, according to Fei Wing Chia, a security response manager for the company, however, he said Apple's AppStore is likely to be hijacked by malware... [21 Jul 2008]
The 'multi-component' malware threat
News Multi-component threats are…becoming more sophisticated and adding more and more components for a snowball effect," adding that malware writers are also tapping on "higher-profile vehicles, such as blogs and... [02 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment If we stop worrying about (and therefore protecting ourselves from) viruses, then that's what the malware writers will turn their attention back to. Have I been "unlucky" to be "hit by a virus"?... [04 Oct 2007]
Cyber criminals building more but smaller botnets
News Sean Sullivan, technical expert at F-Secure, said virus writers can no longer beat security companies with complex codes and are therefore trying to do it through creating "malware factories" which swamp... [28 Sep 2007]
