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News (34)

• China hosts nearly half of malware sites

  China is host to almost half of the world's malware-infected Web sites.

• AusCERT 2007: Complete coverage

  News and video interviews from AusCERT, Australia's premier security conference. Hear from myriad speakers including the Queensland Police, Oracle's chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson, IBM chief security architect Anthony Nadalin, and Microsoft's security chief George Stathakopoulos.

• Samsung Web site hosts password stealing trojan

  update: Samsung's US Web site is hosting a Trojan horse that logs keystrokes, disables antivirus applications and steals online banking access codes, according to Internet security firm Websense.

• Mac malware volumes 'spike' without pain

  Apple Mac users have a good reason to feel more secure than their PC-using cousins: compared to malicious software created for Windows systems, malware writers have left OS X in relative peace.

• Signature-based antivirus is dead: Get over it

  A hacking competition will attempt to prove that signature-based antivirus is dead but security vendors say, apart from signatures, antivirus is alive and well.

Blogs (1)

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  Banks are confusing consumers on PC security

  Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.

Features and Case Studies (15)

• College plans virus-writing course

  The University of Calgary is offering a class in which students will write and test their own viruses--a move that has touched off a wave of criticism within the antivirus community.

• 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?

• Latest MyDoom attacks Yahoo people search

  A new variant of the MyDoom worm, described variously as MyDoom.Q or MyDoom.O, was discovered on Tuesday that uses Yahoo's People Search to find new email addresses.

• Security: Companies asleep at the wheel?

  IT observer Jon Oltsik says corporate network defenses protect against the wrong enemy. Additional reading: Microsoft's bounty hunter

• Klez still dominates the virus top 10

  Klez is still riding high in the virus top 10 after more than a year, but system administrators should be looking out for Datemake, a new entry.

Reviews (1)

• Norton AntiVirus 2004

  NAV 2004 is still a good choice for first timers, but its minor improvements means NAV 2003 users need not upgrade.

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