Each variant released so far has exceeded the previous one in growth and impact during the critical initial window of vulnerability. The virus has caused headaches for administrators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the US Department...
Anti-virus experts speaking at the Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR) conference have told delegates old computer viruses are still a threat. However, he says legacy threats only represent a threat to complex environments.
The metadata threat is currently a vulnerability not an exploit - and no known exploits had been reported at the time of writing. According to security firm Secunia, the vulnerability is due to an error in the processing of file association...
An attack that had used a vulnerability to turn some websites into points of digital infection was nipped in the bud on Friday, when internet engineers managed to shut down a Russian server that had been the source of malicious code.
Salem said traditional threats such as viruses and bulk mail "are interesting and companies definitely still need to be protected against them but they are yesterday's problem". The problem, he said, is that scammers who pick their moment and...
In the past, a strategy of so-called perimeter security has been more common. Patching is only one facet of a corporate security strategy and should be considered fallible as best, said Gerhard Eschelbeck, chief technology officer for vulnerability...
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