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InternetNews January 6, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Fake Celeb Profiles in Spam Attacks Want to see "more" of your favorite actor or pop star? Bad idea.  |
InternetNews January 6, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Help Push Google to Dubious Milestone Google makes top 10 list for spam abuses.  |
InternetNews January 27, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Ramp Up Short-Lived Web Sites Sites that are here today, gone tomorrow are difficult to track and block.  |
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Cybercriminals Launch Attacks Through Digg Bad guys leverage celebrities' names to put malware on victims' PCs.  |
InternetNews January 7, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Beware Microsoft Update E-mail Spammers resume using fake system update warning.  |
InternetNews May 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Panda Security: Beware Black Hat SEO Purveyors of malware have progressed from building link farms to building custom search engines.  |
InternetNews January 20, 2011 |
New Worm Takes Twitter Users For a Ride Twitter fans have a new malware campaign to worry about this week after security researchers at Kaspersky Lab identified a new scareware come-on.  |
InternetNews March 3, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Digg Hackers Strike Next at YouTube Attacks are on the rise, with malware authors dabbling in spreading worms and scareware via comments.  |
InternetNews December 17, 2008 |
Warning, Your Antivirus Software May be Leaky If you think you're protected because you have antivirus applications installed, think again.  |
InternetNews January 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Move Over Storm, There's a New Botnet in Town Nugache, a once-minor botnet, gets an extreme makeover and may be rivaling Storm in terms of size and scale of nuisance.  |
InternetNews July 21, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Erin Andrews Virus Infects Search, Blogs The taping of the original video was a Peeping Tom crime that criminals are now exploiting to infect PCs.  |
InternetNews September 29, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Microsoft, Wash. State Sue Over 'Scareware' Those annoying pop-up ads are the target of a flurry of new lawsuits by the state's Attorney General and Microsoft.  |
InternetNews October 8, 2009 |
McAfee FOCUS 09: Anatomy of a Scareware Scam McAfee peels back the skin of an infamous scareware company, exposing all the intricate inner workings from publicly available data.  |
InternetNews February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Botnet Operators Gearing Up for Valentine's Day Spammers try to play Cupid, with a dark twist.  |
InternetNews February 2, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Forward Slash Led to Massive Google Glitch Questions arise about how a little forward slash led to a bogus Web-wide security warning over the weekend.  |
InternetNews January 25, 2011 |
ICQ Users Fend Off Fake AV Campaign A new scareware scam is taking flight on ICQ, attempting to infect users' PCs and mobile devices while selling them a bill of goods.  |
InternetNews November 20, 2009 |
Symantec's 'Unlucky 13' Security Trends for 2010 Hackers and malware purveyors are becoming more sophisticated, meaning computer users need to become wiser and more proactive, too.  |
InternetNews February 24, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Supertoxic Site Infects eWeek.com Hackers attacked news site eWeek through DoubleClick network.  |
InternetNews January 19, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Get Ready for Inauguration Spam As Obama prepares to be sworn in, hackers and spammers are gearing up for a field day.  |
InternetNews January 29, 2010 |
Another Bogus Virus Warning Disrupts Facebook The clever scam had Facebook users sharing and posting the bogus virus alert throughout the social networking site.  |
InternetNews December 12, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Web 2.0 and Cloud Tech: A Spammers' Paradise? With the proliferation of the cloud, spammers will find it becoming ever easier to ply their trade.  |
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Hijack Facebook Group of 1.5 Million Facebook site is taken over by get-rich-quick and other familiar spam.  |
InternetNews August 26, 2009 |
Apple Adding Malware Defense to Snow Leopard? Apple may be following Microsoft's lead in offering free protection for its users in the upcoming release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard.  |
InternetNews February 23, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Malware Authors Exploit Facebook App Is a bogus application making the rounds on Facebook just a failed marketing ploy? Or something more dangerous?  |
InternetNews February 21, 2007 Ed Sutherland |
Google Fixes Dangerous Desktop Flaw Integrating Web and desktop creates "perfect storm" for future flaws, researcher says.  |
InternetNews March 12, 2010 |
McAfee's Got the Skinny on Scareware McAfee's advisory details the dangers of downloading fake antivirus software, often referred to as 'scareware.'  |
InternetNews February 27, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Return to 'Spim' to Lure Victims Once again, instant messaging is being used by malware authors and fraudulent marketers to ply their trades.  |
InternetNews October 1, 2009 |
Internet Never More Dangerous: Study Report finds a 585 percent spike in fake anti-malware and security software programs in the first half of 2009.  |
InternetNews November 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Oops! Google Sent 'Worm' to E-mail List Search giant apologizes for sending kama sutra worm to video blog subscribers.  |
PC Magazine November 13, 2009 Neil J. Rubenking |
Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition 1.0 Panda Cloud Antivirus offers free malware protection in a lightweight package with an ultra-fresh user interface... Norton Internet Security 2010...  |
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot  |
InternetNews August 13, 2009 |
Craiglist, AutoCAD Threats Show Virus Variety Malware authors continue showing their creativity, with new viruses making the rounds by targeting Craigslist fans and AutoCAD users.  |
InternetNews March 10, 2010 |
Mariposa Bot Shipped With Vodafone Smartphone Panda Security discovered Confiker, Mariposa and Lineage password stealing malware samples installed on a recently purchased Vodafone HTC Magic smartphone.  |
InternetNews January 13, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
AVG Buys Sana For ID Theft Protection Pure play antivirus vendors are making sure they don't become extinct.  |
InternetNews July 18, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Google Hacking Malicious Code Security researcher H.D. Moore has released a new malware search engine and its underlying code to help searchers find malware code that Google has indexed.  |
PC World June 2004 Mary Landesman |
Bigger Threats, Better Defense Tests of 16 security tools, including firewalls, antivirus software, and anti-spyware programs, that aim to foil worms, viruses, spies, and hackers.  |
InternetNews October 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
YouTube's Not so Friendly Spam Bringing new meaning to the term "viral video," spammers are trying to sucker people by pretending to be legitimate YouTube messages.  |
InternetNews April 2, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Do You Know Where That USB Drive Has Been? Antivirus firm finds USB drives and other removable media spread the most prolific forms of malware last month.  |
InternetNews October 24, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
The 'Storm' That Keeps Blowing The Storm worm seems to unleash one new e-mail flood or denial of service attack every week. Why won't it go away?  |
Search Engine Watch June 5, 2010 Johnny Widerlund |
Avoiding Online Risks Kicking Off with the 2010 FIFA World Cup Cyber criminals will continue hijacking current news and events to serve malware. A rundown of the most prevalent online security risks, and how to avoid them.  |
InternetNews July 1, 2010 |
Malware Leverages 'Twilight: Eclipse' Mania Fans of the 'Twilight' vampire movies had best be careful when searching the Web for movie information.  |
InternetNews April 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Microsoft Warns 'Scareware' on the Rise Beware of anti-spam and anti-virus software you're unfamiliar with - and don't get fooled by fear.  |
PC Magazine March 26, 2010 Neil J. Rubenking |
Lab Testing Antivirus Software Roundup Many users prefer to build their own protective suite from separate best-of-breed components. Here's a run-down of your choices for standalone antivirus utilities.  |
InternetNews November 26, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Named in Top 5 Spam-Friendly Hosts Non-profit that tracks global spam says the software giant's Live services let spammers run wild.  |
InternetNews July 7, 2009 Andy Patrizio |
Symantec Offers Public Beta of Security Tools Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010 are live for users to put through the paces.  |
InternetNews November 14, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
More Security Wares Lined up For Vista Security vendors ESET, GRISOFT position their products for Vista.  |
InternetNews June 3, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Scareware Arrives on Twitter in Latest Attack As new Web 2.0 threats proliferate, business IT departments struggle with basic tasks such as patch management.  |
InternetNews August 2, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Who's Who in Antivirus Software? Despite dominant players, the Black Hat conference has a big cast. Now if only people will use their products.  |
InternetNews February 27, 2007 Ed Sutherland |
Storm Trojan Takes Social Measures Storm Trojan uses Web mail, blogs and message boards as conduits for spreading malware code.  |
PC World June 1, 2008 Erik Larkin |
Web 2.0 Sites a Thriving Marketplace for Malware Malicious software makers are using social networks, video sites, and blogs to peddle their wares to other online criminals.  |