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PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Jane Pinckard |
Trojan Invades PSPs In early October, Symantec Security Response experts identified Trojan.PSPBrick, the first Trojan horse that targets Sony PlayStation Portable systems, as a Category 1 threat.  |
InternetNews December 2, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner |
Apple Recommends Antivirus for Mac Users Apple quietly suggests customers use antivirus software, though threats are still few in number.  |
InternetNews February 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Microsoft Clamps Down on Excel Zero-Day Attack Microsoft is taking steps to protect customers from attacks through a zero-day flaw in Microsoft Excel discovered earlier this week.  |
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 27, 2007 Ed Sutherland |
Storm Trojan Takes Social Measures Storm Trojan uses Web mail, blogs and message boards as conduits for spreading malware code.  |
InternetNews November 20, 2009 |
Past Year's Malware Could Shape 2010's Threats Ever heard of Induc, Sninsfs or OSX.iservice? These new types of attacks emerged in 2009 and could become more prevalent in the year ahead.  |
InternetNews August 16, 2010 |
Symantec Uncovers Another Sneaky Spam Scam Latest Trojan conceals itself in innocent-looking attachments designed to get you or someone you know to open up the offending file.  |
InternetNews August 28, 2009 |
New Trojan Snags Skype Calls on Windows PCs Trojan.Peskyspy beats Skype encryption through Windows API attack. How serious is the threat?  |
InternetNews September 23, 2009 |
Do Not Pass Go: Malware Taps Phony 'Monopoly' Unsolicited invitation to play an online version of the popular board game can turn your computer into a spam-spewing zombie.  |
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 10, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner |
Symantec Pifts.exe: Blame Human Error The kerfuffle over an alleged cover-up may be put to bed.  |
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.  |
InternetNews August 2, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Firefox Is Doing So Well It's Now A Malware Target Mozilla has seen its first serious malware exploit.  |
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Michael Jackson Malware Has Already Hit the Net Trojans attempt to exploit the postmortem interest around the late King of Pop.  |
The Motley Fool March 5, 2011 Darleen Hartley |
Beware of Malware in the Android Market Malware in sheep's clothing has been infecting Android devices. The dangerous apps have been pulled from the Android Market, but not before tens of thousands of users had been bitten.  |
InternetNews September 19, 2005 Tim Gray |
New Worm Uses The Force Security firm PandaLabs says a worm that spoofs Google is winding its way through the Internet via P2P networks.  |
InternetNews February 21, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Zero Day Exploit Hits Apple's OS X Apple Mac OS X users may be at risk from an "extremely critical" vulnerability that remains un-patched.  |
InternetNews December 18, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Old Exploit Targets Symantec Antivirus Security firm eEye Digital Security has posted a warning about the spread of a new virus affecting the Symantec Antivirus application.  |
InternetNews May 28, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Flood of Fake Western Union E-mails Hide Trojan An influx of malware-laden spam, which started two weeks ago, continues today as hackers seek credit card and banking information.  |
InternetNews May 8, 2006 David Miller |
The Surge in Mac Attacks Just as Apple Computer launched a new ad touting OSX's resilience against viruses, the Macintosh operating system and applications have come under fire for harboring serious security flaws.  |
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 April 28, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Blaster Redux? SSL Worm Threat Rising Security experts have spotted the first signs of a Blaster-like worm circulating underground, prompting fears that major Internet disruptions could be less than a week away.  |
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 March 15, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
New Trojan is Holding Data Ransom If you're the unlucky victim of the new cryzip Trojan making the rounds, it'll cost you $300 to get your data back from the Trojan's author.  |
InternetNews July 13, 2009 |
F-Secure: Flash, ActiveX Still Under Attack Anyone who has downloaded the latest version of Firefox should make sure to update all browser plugins.  |
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
Ever-Morphing Bagle Virus Going Strong A new variant of the Bagle downloader virus is spreading havoc again on unsuspecting users' machines, according to e-mail security firm MessageLabs.  |
InternetNews July 28, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Microsoft: Out-of-Cycle Security Patch Coming Due out next week, the patch will fix a software flaw that led to the Download.Ject malware attack.  |
InternetNews January 16, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
A Particularly Nasty Week For Malware From Excel to the revitalized Storm worm to a severe banking Trojan, it's enough to make you nostalgic for the days of BBSes.  |
InternetNews December 30, 2004 Tim Gray |
Trojan Threatens XP Flaw may leave Windows XP vulnerable to attack.  |
InternetNews February 15, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Malware Threatens Mac Users: Report Survey shows Apple users expect the bad guys to follow them, but the good news is the evildoers are looking the other way.  |
InternetNews January 9, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner |
Fake Microsoft Service Pack is Xombe Trojan Another day, another virus. Unsuspecting Internet users were greeted Friday with an e-mail message purportedly from windowsupdate@microsoft.com to update their computers. Problem is, the message isn't from Microsoft and the patch is actually a back door Trojan.  |
InternetNews September 25, 2009 |
Twitter URLs Again Under Siege by Hackers Hackers are taking advantage of the popular microblogging site's limitations to spread malware.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2005 Alyce Lomax |
MSN Unplugs Mac Microsoft has announced that its MSN Internet service provider service will no longer be available for Apple's Macintosh platform. Should investors care?  |
Scientific American June 2009 Michael Moyer |
What Conficker Reveals About Internet Crime The worm exposes the sophisticated international criminal networks behind modern computer viruses  |
InternetNews February 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Apple Users: Beware of Leopard Links A new Mac OS X worm is slithering around the Internet, apparently trying to capitalize on users' curiosity about the upcoming 10.5 "Leopard" operating system.  |
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 August 15, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Zotob Targets Windows Update Laggards A critical vulnerability in Microsoft's plug-and-play code can wreak havoc on unpatched PCs.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Mark Anderson |
What a Wi-Fi Worm Outbreak Would Look Like A future form of computer malware might infect Wi-Fi routers and steal data.  |
InternetNews September 29, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Large Scale IM Virus Attack Feared The first signs of a large-scale virus attack are spotted on newsgroups regarding a Windows flaw in the way JPEG images are processed.  |
PC Magazine March 7, 2008 Larry Seltzer |
ID Theft: The Next Level The new virus Trojan.Silentbanker regularly patrols the Internet for banking sites it can manipulate.  |
PC World April 9, 2002 Tom Mainelli |
Tricky Worm Can Spread via AIM, IRC Low-risk mass-mailed W32.aphex promises porn but delivers inconvenience for buddies...  |
InternetNews December 7, 2005 Michael Hall |
Chatty Worm-Bot Coaxes Malware Download A new worm making the rounds on AIM simulates a real person to coax users into accepting its payload.  |
PC Magazine August 19, 2003 Sheryl Canter |
Effective Immunity Viruses keep spreading, and PCs keep getting infected. What can you do to stay secure?  |
InternetNews April 9, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Microsoft: Majority of File Exploits Avoidable Microsoft's latest security report includes a new category of data with astonishing implications.  |
InternetNews February 20, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Attack Preys on New Adobe Acrobat Vulnerability Experts warn businesses and government agencies on the latest flaw uncovered in one of Adobe's popular applications.  |
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 April 4, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Surprise, Your Headline Was Wrong Addressing the issues raised over a story that Windows is the most secure OS.  |
InternetNews September 22, 2005 David Needle |
Beware, Bagle is Back Several anti-virus security sites have issued warnings that a variant of the infamous Bagle worm has shown up on the Internet, spreading via e-mails... Symantec agrees to acquire WholeSecurity...  |
PC World August 23, 2002 Frank Thorsberg |
The World's Worst Viruses Check out our list of nasty computer viruses -- and find out how to save your PC from infection.  |