Kurtz said the CSIA would emphasise development of security policies and initiatives rather than focus on consumer privacy issues, but he highlighted his belief that the group's efforts will eventually serve to protect private citizens as well as...
There is a big potential for abuse," he added. Many in the security industry have warned that such a platform is ripe for attack - particularly when users lack awareness of potential threats and many will unwittingly 'go looking for' the viruses by...
Another possible motive is to build a dormant "dark" network that could be used in the future to perform a large-scale attack against one or more targets. However, Trend Micro said the most significant codes analysed this month are those designed...
Antivirus firm F-Secure has been accused of "over-hyping" the threat of mobile phone viruses in order to drive the sales of a new product guarding against such threats. We believe we are going to see a huge growth in threats targeting mobile devices.
A Massachusetts teen who admitted to accessing T-Mobile USA's internal systems and posting data from Paris Hilton's mobile phone on the web will serve 11 months in a juvenile facility. In June, a second phone company became a victim to the juvenile...
Symantec and McAfee both plan to support CME in their products and in their online reference libraries of threats, Weafer and Kuo said. Even if those companies disagree about the risk assessment or the background of the malicious software, CME will...