Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Hackers will keep cranking out exploits that take advantage of known software vulnerabilities because, although patches are available, a minority of machines are fixed, security vendor McAfee said Monday. In releasing its quarterly security analysis, McAfee's "AVERT" virus research team noted that exploited vulnerabilities are becoming a dominant threat to ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Two-thirds of IT managers named spyware as the number one threat to their networks' security in 2005, a survey released Monday said. The poll, conducted by security firm WatchGuard on the Seattle-based company's Web site in December, revealed that 66 percent of the managers and administrators surveyed thought that spyware ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A Trojan which uses infected PCs to send spam messages to mobile phone users has been discovered. Delf-HA Trojan horse sends spam SMS messages by using the free "Send a text message" facility found on the websites of several Russian mobile network operators. Infected PCs download instructions on the content ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Computer viruses spread by e-mail are growing more sophisticated as virus writers and spammers are thought to be joining forces in an effort to make smarter bugs, a computer security group said Tuesday.
New York-based MessageLabs, which scans client e-mails for viruses to block, said it picked apart some ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
According to unconfirmed reports, including a recent thread on the BugTraq mailing list, versions of a new Beastie Boys CD from Capitol Records ('To the Five Boroughs'), which is being distributed worldwide except in the USA and UK, contain what could be labeled as a computer virus. Based on these ...
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