Tim Wright, principal engineer at Vodafone, says most operators have protected their gateways accordingly. Magnus Olssen, senior engineer at Ericsson told silicon.com: "Handsets with downloading facilities are open for viruses if the gateway of an...
The software will protect data generated by BT's 138,000 employees, and will help prevent attacks on desktop, email, Internet and server gateways. Most companies are aware of viruses, but they need to create general data security awareness across...
A second wave of attacks, whereby infected computers attempted to download a Trojan horse from 20 'master servers' set up by the virus writer, was prevented when security experts successfully took them offline.
According to the report, the number of viruses and worms targeting Win32 systems more than doubled, but surprisingly, severe attacks actually halved compared to the same period last year. Security firm Symantec, which published its bi-annual...
Now today we appear to be seeing the start of the next wave of virus threat - that being posed to smart-phone handsets. More than a decade after the problem of computer viruses began to hit mainstream consciousness we are still this week talking...
Organisations can limit the impact of mass-mailer viruses such as Netsky and Bagle by employing email attachment blocking policies at their gateways. Both of these 64-bit viruses are considered as "proof-of-concept" viruses, or viruses created to...