He said: "I suspect Simon may be trying to push CA's firewall/intrusion detection products on the back of the Nimda outbreak, as Nimda exploits a vulnerability in some versions of Microsoft IIS. Anti-virus vendors are not doing enough to protect...
Fourth-year students will this autumn be offered a class entitled "Computer Viruses and Malware," in which students will write and test their own viruses. He said: "Somebody who is suggesting we are doing enough [to combat viruses] really has their...
Despite Panda's warning that the Trojan can download a cocktail of malware, Microsoft denies there is a flaw in its software. Panda Software warned earlier this week that hackers are using the player's DRM tool to fool people into downloading...
Because of the lack of co-ordination in naming threats, an outbreak can be tagged with a variety of names or variant designations, depending on the security company that's referring to it. The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team is preparing to...
He added: "When a larger botnet is spreading a virus, it lights up the switchboard of [antivirus] vendors, and they'll respond in a few hours with a signature to contain the outbreak. Malicious makers of bots are finding big is not always better...
More phishing sites are now using Flash content rather than HTML in an attempt to evade anti-phishing technology deployed in web browsers. The difference in the ratio of phishing to virus attacks is partly due to virus attacks becoming more...
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