The expected rush of viruses using social engineering techniques to capitalise on Christmas and New Years' Day has failed to materialise, with no threats utilising the tactic found by leading anti-virus companies.
The latest variant of the Sober virus was released on Friday and has been spreading over the weekend but antivirus experts say the situation could have been much worse.
There's a software product coming that has the potential to demote spyware from a security priority to an afterthought: Windows Vista.
The British Parliament was "attacked" late last year by hackers who tried to exploit a recent serious Microsoft Windows flaw, security experts confirmed on Friday.
Security experts are warning that an email claiming to contain a video of Osama Bin Laden's reaction to the US election result contains a worm. The email is signed by The Hobbit.
A socially engineered e-mail, which contains a Trojan file that exploits a zero-day vulnerability and then hides behind a rootkit, might be the perfect attack and impossible to defend against.
Symantec published its 10th Internet Threat Report this week and quietly admitted a few days later that its predictions of increasing Mac-targeted spyware threats have not been realised.
Security experts are warning that an email claiming to contain a video of Osama Bin Laden's reaction to the US election result contains a worm. The email is signed by The Hobbit.
A combination of social engineering and failure to update anti-virus software contributed to the recent outbreak of the latest mass mailing worm, Fizzer, according to one expert
A new e-mail worm has started to spread quickly, taking advantage of an Internet Explorer vulnerability that was first disclosed two years ago.
It's official: MyDoom is the fastest spreading e-mail virus or worm in computer history but what's even more incredible is that it does nothing special; instead, it relies largely upon classic, tried-and-true e-mail infection methods dating back at least four years.
Apple computers have built a solid reputation on being virus-free, but is the reality different from the image?
A security start-up is borrowing a technique from the research labs to try to give Internet Explorer PCs relief from Web-based attacks.
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