News (17)

  • Recruiters auto-forward trojan-infected resumes

    Customers of an Australian recruitment firm have been targeted with resumes that are booby-trapped with a backdoor trojan.

  • C-level employees targeted in trojan attack

    C-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cybercriminals using malware-infected RTF (Rich Text File) documents disguised as recruitment letters.

  • ISPs accused of ignoring botnet invasion

    Internet Service Providers are in the perfect position to kill vast armies of compromised computers -- or bots -- that are being used by cyber-criminals to launch the majority of spam and phishing attacks, according security specialists at the AusCERT 2006 conference.

  • All quiet on the Sober front

    The Sober attack predicted for last Friday has not happened, possibly because of the publicity surrounding the potential outbreak.

  • Guaranteed to keep the bugs out

    Messagelabs, a British managed security service provider, will officially enter the US market this week promising customers a full refund if any viruses get through its email protection offering.

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  • Superguide: the death of 'trusted' Web sites?

    The explosion in drive-by download attacks continues to grow. How has the situation got so dangerous? Are there any "trusted" Web sites left?

  • Bagle.a prevention and cure

    Bagle (Bagle.a@mm) looks like yet another worm designed by spammers, much like Sobig and MiMail. Here's how to toast it.

  • Why one virus alert system won't fit all

    Some people have suggested that antivirus companies, when issuing alerts about viruses and worms, use some sort of standard scale to tell us how dangerous each pest really is. Sorry, but that just won't work.

  • MyDoom: How it became the fastest worm ever

    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.

  • US-CERT to unveil global worm-naming plan

    Zotob.E, Tpbot-A, Rbot.CBQ and IRCbot.worm: all names given to a single worm that wreaked havoc in Windows 2000 systems last month. Among the plethora of identifiers, perhaps the most useful -- CME-540 -- didn't make an impact.

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