Monday, September 28th, 2009 To combat worms, Trojans and other malware, a team of security researchers wants to use ants.Not the actual live insects, of course, but computer programs modelled to act like ants in the way they roam a network and search for anomalies. "Ants aren't intelligent," says Glenn Fink, a senior research ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Researchers at Websense have discovered a mass injection attack that is redirecting Web browsers to a malware-bearing site.According to a weekend report by researchers at Websense, thousands of legitimate Web sites have been discovered to be injected with malicious Javascript, obfuscated code that leads to an active exploit site."The active ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) have announced some AutoRun changes for Windows 7.Currently Conficker and other malware is taking advantage of the AutoRun functionality as a spreading mechanism. AutoRun is used to start some programs automatically when a CD or another media is inserted into a computer. The main ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of malicious software that many security products may be unprepared to handle.The malicious software is a new variant of Mebroot, a program known as a "rootkit" for the stealthy way it hides deep in the Windows operating system, ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 The Conficker worm is finally doing something--updating via peer-to-peer between infected computers and dropping a mystery payload on infected computers, Trend Micro said on Wednesday.Researchers were analyzing the code of the software that is being dropped onto infected computers but suspect that it is a keystroke logger or some other ...
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