In terms of payload, the Klez-H variant is capable of carrying other viruses such as Elkern, which it then automatically launches once the attachment is executed. Numbers in brackets denote percentage of reported infections.
Google has the concept of 'feeling lucky,' and we're introducing the concept of feeling confident," said AltaVista CEO Jim Barnett, referring to the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on Google's home page, which automatically takes searchers to the first...
The Commission also recommended that signing up to non-inclusion lists should be free, whether consumers ask to be put on France Telecom's 'red list' (no details to be made available in any way) or an 'amber list' (no details to be included in the...
To try to translate that idea into digital terms, Cheng and her team have come up with a concept called Inner Circle, which automatically maintains and updates a list of about 20 people whom one is emailing and instant messaging the most.
The worm spreads by scanning different ranges of internet addresses using a specific application data channel, or port, numbered 445. All the machines that have gotten the virus haven't been patched," he said, adding that university security lists...
An attacker could write a malicious widget for Mac OS X 1.4 Tiger that would run invisibly in the background and hijack a user's "sudo" (or administrative) privileges on a system, according to an alert distributed on the Full Disclosure mailing...