Externally, banks are responding to customer demands that their interactions with their bank mirror the other interactions they are used to on the internet while internally banks are using web 2.0 tools to communicate and collaborate across their...
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, believes virus writers will increasingly exploit IM as part of a blended attack, but says email will always remain the primary target. It seems these days virus writers are throwing more and...
VB is one of the easiest programming languages to master, but it's unsuitable for serious projects… The source code for some early IM worms was published on a number of virus writers' sites, and most of the new worms are clearly based on this code...
magazine in the UK, follows the growing trend towards social engineering on the part of virus writers. Typically such files, generally spread via email, purport to contain pictures of attractive females - with the likes of Latino lovely Shakira...
This is not the first time Cluley has been singled out for some personal treatment by virus writers and hackers and it is likely this latest virus is once again the work of a female virus writer with a particular dislike of the Sophos man.
Reuters Messaging enables staff within an organisation, often spread over multiple locations, to communicate in real time. Reuters has today launched its own instant messaging service, aimed at banks and financial institutions worldwide.