Security specialist Sophos added that such statements may do more harm than good. He said Symantec is wary of drawing too much publicity to security threats, but added: "We know the virus writers are looking at new technologies," he said, "and we...
Anti-virus firm MessageLabs said it still rates mimail as a 'high-level' threat and has blocked over 76,000 infected messages since the outbreak on 1 August. Virus writers and spammers are becoming more aware of social engineering techniques and...
Any exploit released into the wild during that time can cause serious harm to a business. But of greatest concern to the antivirus industry however will be the fact that many businesses believe time is running out for companies whose protection...
Enrique Salem, CEO of Brightmail, answers: "One of the main reasons why spam is such a menacing problem is that unlike many virus writers, spammers actually make money.a lot of money. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, answers...
The Spanish security company said that virus writers had released licence-protected multimedia files containing Trojan horses (WmvDownloader.A and WmvDownloader.B) that can exploit the anti-piracy features in version 10 of the Media Player and...
The virus writers, who are becoming increasingly criminal and organised in their efforts to steal money from individuals, don't need to write viruses for mobile phones. Today, Trend Micro issued a media alert stating it had discovered a "fully...
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