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RSS websites threatMalware-infected site detected every five seconds
News According to the Sophos security threat report Blogspot.com, the blog publishing system owned by Google, was found to be hosting two per cent of the world's web-based malware in June 2008 - with hackers hosting malicious... [23 Jul 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo And the centre faces a growing threat, with a 140 per cent increase in the amount of malware being deployed online over the past six months. Symantec also has about two million active email accounts that its uses to... [21 Jul 2008]
UK youths going mobile web crazy
News The survey also found the main barrier to mobile email and social networking adoption is the perceived threat of high bills - with almost half (41 per cent) of respondents saying they would be 'very likely' to use the... [17 Jul 2008]
Coming soon - malware threats to iPhone 2.0?
News The company's report, released on Friday, on the security threat landscape for the first half of 2008, and in its outlook for the second half of the year, warned that "iPhone customers will likely suffer from mobile... [14 Jul 2008]
The 'multi-component' malware threat
News In other words, the next security threat that hits your organisation could be a keylogger, Trojan and 'bot' rolled into one. The most obvious challenge is that, when we see one part of a multi-component... [02 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security scare
Comment Be paranoid - always assume there is a real threat. Take a long hard look at the information you make public on websites and social networks. Without revealing what I did or how and where I did it, I... [18 Jun 2008]
Security threat: One web page infected every five seconds
News Released Wednesday, Sophos said in its Security Threat Report that an average of more than 15,000 web pages were compromised daily between January and March. About 79 per cent of compromised web pages tracked this year... [24 Apr 2008]
Microsoft embraces cloud computing with 'Live Mesh'
News Industry analysts said the product may signal a watershed moment within Microsoft to embrace a technology that the company viewed as a threat in the past. Live Mesh embraces the industry trend toward cloud computing, in... [23 Apr 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment I refer to the latest threat report from Symantec, they are seeing a shift away from hacking individual computers to web-based threats. That of course is related to the nature of the cyber threat, the... [15 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News Social-networking websites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report. There is an increased security threat from... [09 Apr 2008]
Consumer Managed Access to Financial Accounts and Sensitive Websites: A New Approach to an Increasingly Serious Challenge
White Paper Simultaneously the security requirements to continue to enjoy those benefits are growing exponentially in order to continue to thwart an ever more sophisticated threat to sensitive personal information.a result of a... [12 Mar 2008]
Photos: Viruses and Trojans come to life
Photo This pretty vision is Netsky - a worm that consistently poses a threat via email traffic. This is the Ghost spyware which saves the keystrokes, screen shots and websites visited. Security software firm... [06 Mar 2008]
Vodafone CEO warns of Apple, Google threat
News Because mobile customers now want to communicate via a variety of methods - be it SMS, email or social networking websites - Sarin said the industry must step up to the challenge and "be in all these places". [12 Feb 2008]
Macs no longer safe from cyberattacks
News A serious threat to all computer systems comes from websites that have been planted with malicious code, which exploit flaws in applications such as Internet Explorer, and Apple's Quicktime. The security... [23 Jan 2008]
Web 2.0 threat looms
Comment Most analysts agree careless use of web 2.0 applications poses a serious threat to computer users. This is not just a theoretical threat, it has already been used to compromise Gmail to fraudulently... [26 Nov 2007]
