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InternetNews October 3, 2006 Roy Mark |
Cyber Criminals Turn to Home Users Phishing and spam are on a dramatic rise as home users become the prime targets of online criminals. Attacks are up 81 percent over the last six months and spam jumped 50 percent over the same period.  |
InternetNews September 20, 2005 Roy Mark |
Malicious Code For Profit New trend finds shifts toward attacks seeking confidential information.  |
InternetNews March 21, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Surprise, Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS Microsoft has the fewest holes and was fastest at plugging them, according to Symantec's security report.  |
InternetNews September 17, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Have We Reached The End Of The Virus? Not quite. The old-fashioned virus infestation is fading as the biggest nuisance for computer users in favor of Trojans, Symantec's new malware study finds.  |
PC World February 3, 2003 Paul Roberts |
The Net Is Dangerous, Research Says Attack rates decline, but worms and software flaws keep cyberspace hazardous, Symantec reports.  |
InternetNews March 19, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
What's a New Identity Cost? Less Than a CD. Symantec probes the identity-trading underground and finds personal IDs selling for $14.  |
InternetNews April 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Malware Problem Shows no Sign of Slowing It's easier than ever to write a phishing virus that looks like a Facebook app thanks to virus writer's toolkits, Symantec finds.  |
InternetNews February 24, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Hackers Pounce on Excel Vulnerability Hackers have launched a new attack that uses a previously undiscovered flaw in Microsoft Excel to target business executives and government agencies.  |
InternetNews March 16, 2004 Sharon Gaudin |
Report: Threats Coming from all Sides A Symantec study shows that the number of software security flaws has leveled off over the past year. That sounds like good news until you find out that it's leveled off at seven new vulnerabilities a day, or 2,636 a year.  |
InternetNews December 1, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Backup Software Under Attack A SANS report on top security vulnerabilities finds that backup and recovery software has become a favorite target of hackers.  |
InternetNews February 25, 2010 |
Malware Thrives Despite Improved Security: IBM Security researchers at IBM's X-Force find 6,601 new software vulnerabilities in 2009, down 11 percent from last, but that hasn't stopped hackers and phishers from finding new ways to rip off consumers.  |
InternetNews October 27, 2010 |
Malware Scams Pick Up In Retail Sector Targeted attacks are becoming more and more common as hackers seek out specific individuals or groups to steal proprietary information.  |
InternetNews December 2, 2010 |
Targeted Malware, Spam Will Surge in '11 Security software vendor predicts more malware campaigns will use social media to target mobile devices, apps and industry-specific systems.  |
InternetNews August 10, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Apple Plugs OS X Vulnerabilities Mac OS X Panther users at risk of sensitive data leakage, DoS attacks and system access.  |
Entrepreneur March 2006 Amanda C. Kooser |
Hacker's Paradise Vincent Weafer, senior director of Symantec security response, talks about what internet security threats are shaping up.  |
InternetNews March 25, 2010 |
Symantec: China Is Tops in Targeted Malware Symantec's latest report pinpoints China as the leading source of malware tailored to hoodwink execs in specific industries.  |
InternetNews April 20, 2010 |
Targeted, DIY Malware Here to Stay: Symantec Symantec's latest threat report provides plenty of disconcerting news for IT managers charged with safeguarding critical enterprise data.  |
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Tim Gray |
Browser-Based Attacks on the Rise Browser-based attacks such as pharming and phishing scams are now the fastest-growing security threat on the Internet.  |
InternetNews March 18, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner |
PWN2OWN: What's a Vulnerability Worth? Hacking contest puts cash behind exploiting security holes. But the goal isn't to take advantage of users - it's to help them.  |
InternetNews May 1, 2006 David Miller |
Zero-Day Attacks an Ongoing Menace Security report from the SANS Institute details biggest Internet vulnerabilities.  |
InternetNews May 13, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Symantec Scrambles to Fix Firewall Flaws Users of Symantec's popular firewall product suite are at risk of code execution attacks.  |
InternetNews July 26, 2010 |
Apple Security Holes Outnumber Windows According to Secunia, the Mac and iPhone maker is at risk from more security holes than other vendors. But Apple faithful don't need to despair just yet.  |
InternetNews August 27, 2009 |
IBM's X-Force Report Praises Sun for Fast Fixes Security report on trends in vulnerabilities, threats, spam, and phishing finds Sun has passed Microsoft in terms of reporting and fixing OS problems.  |
InternetNews October 31, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Symantec's Latest: Customized Threat Protection Symantec announced a custom threat analysis and protection service through its Global Services Security Response unit. Managed Threat Analysis, is designed to help companies facing more targeted attacks from criminals looking to steal intellectual property.  |
InternetNews November 6, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Adobe Unveils Another Set of Critical Patches For the second time this week, Adobe Systems has released a set of critical vulnerability patches.  |
PC Magazine February 22, 2005 Larry Seltzer |
2005: More of The Same? 2004 was a rough year for security. What can we expect this year?  |
InternetNews December 21, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Symantec Antivirus Users At Risk The Symantec AntiVirus RAR Archive Decompression Buffer Overflow has been found to have a highly critical vulnerability for which there is currently no patch.  |
InternetNews March 31, 2005 Tim Gray |
Symantec Fixes Security Holes The firm releases fixes for two vulnerabilities found in its anti-virus products.  |
InternetNews December 11, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Which Popular Apps Have the Most Security Holes? Bit9 ranks the most widely used applications with known security vulnerabilities.  |
InternetNews March 31, 2011 |
Report: Nearly Half of Vulnerabilities Left Unpatched IBM's X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk Report details a 27 percent rise in vulnerabilities, with nearly half left unpatched by year's end.  |
InternetNews September 7, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Microsoft Investigates Word 2000 Trojan Microsoft said it has launched an investigation into reports of a new Trojan horse targeting Word 2000.  |
InternetNews July 30, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
'Critical' IE Patch Released Microsoft goes out-of-cycle to fix software flaws that led to last month's malware attack.  |
InternetNews July 7, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Symantec: USB Keys Threaten the Enterprise As criminals innovate to attack PCs, Symantec promised to continue to fight them.  |
InternetNews July 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
U.S., South Korea Under Cyber Attack Governments and security firms are working together to fight an attack which, though massive, contains very primitive components.  |
InternetNews October 18, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Security Vendors Have a Vista Bone to Pick Microsoft calls meeting to soothe vendors' ruffled feathers over access to kernel.  |
InternetNews October 26, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Vista's PatchGuard Bypassed? A security vendor announced it has found a way to bypass a controversial security measure in Microsoft's upcoming Vista operating system.  |
InternetNews February 15, 2005 Michael Singer |
Symantec Battles Spyware, Bots and Microsoft CEO John Thompson dismisses Microsoft's security efforts as child's play - certainly not fit for large businesses.  |
PC Magazine November 15, 2006 Robert Lemos |
Browser Bashing With online miscreants attacking Internet Explorer and Firefox, you need to take steps to protect your browser.  |
InternetNews May 10, 2010 |
Phishing Scheme Targets Apple Gift Cards Con artists have zeroed in on Apple Store gift cards for their latest online heist, tricking users into divulging their card and personal information numbers.  |
InternetNews July 28, 2009 |
Microsoft Pounces on IE, Visual Studio Flaws Company hurries out patches as details of the flaws are set to go public.  |
InternetNews December 28, 2004 Tim Gray |
Microsoft Chastises Security Groups As Microsoft continued to investigate three recently reported vulnerabilities in multiple versions of its Windows operating system Tuesday, it delivered a message to security groups anxious to publicly report bad news: It does more harm than good.  |
InternetNews February 24, 2010 |
Cyber Attacks Hit 75% of Enterprises in 2009 Symantec's latest report has more unsettling news for IT security administrators.  |
InternetNews May 4, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Apple Issues Patch for Mac OS X Mac OS X users are at risk of system hijack, security bypass, DoS attacks and other threats.  |
InternetNews February 14, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Microsoft's Security Valentines As part of its traditional "patch Tuesday," Microsoft has released seven fixes for its media player and other Windows applications.  |
InternetNews May 30, 2006 Roy Mark |
Symantec Patches Antivirus Vulnerability Symantec said today it has fixed a vulnerability in its antivirus software suite that potentially could open a backdoor to hackers.  |
InternetNews November 24, 2009 |
Microsoft Confirms Bug in Older IE Versions The question is how long will it take hackers to launch attacks in the wild, and will Microsoft have a patch by then?  |
InternetNews November 23, 2009 |
Zero-Day Exploit a Threat to IE6 & 7 Browsers? Another zero-day hole emerges in key Microsoft software.  |
InternetNews August 1, 2006 |
Rounding the Corners of Network Security The ins, outs and arounds of key security trends.  |
Bank Technology News December 2005 Glen Fest |
Voip Security Threats: Swimming With The Sleeping Sharks? Banks' enthusiasm for installing VoIP shows no signs of waning. Will hackers, spammers, phishers and other criminals soon notice and start to take advantage?  |
InternetNews July 26, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Exploits Fish For Unpatched PCs Security vendor Symantec alerted customers to two exploits using already-patched vulnerabilities.  |