A flaw that could cause denial-of-service attacks on Research In Motion's BlackBerry handheld devices has been discovered.
While SCO's technical staff worked at dodging MyDoom's assault on the company's Web site, their CEO Darl McBride was experiencing a denial of service attack at a much closer range.
Digital marketing and advertising company DoubleClick is staying tight-lipped about a denial of service (DoS) attack that hobbled its online ad-serving operation for four hours overnight.
Sophos anti-virus has confirmed that it is in the preliminary stages of analysing a new Trojan that may be linked to an organised attack on Verisign's domain name servers.
An 18-year-old bot herder from New Zealand plead guilty on Monday to six charges resulting from a failed botnet upgrade that led to a denial-of-service attack on the University of Pennsylvania.
The latest e-mail worm disguises itself as a ZIP file of steamy photos from the beach. MiMail.c (w32.mimail.c@mm) is the third variant of the MiMail virus family, and so far the fastest spreading.
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Hackers are increasingly focusing on Apple's Mac OS X, and the number of newly discovered vulnerabilities has surged. Such a switch could mean big implications for Apple's user base, which has traditionally not had to concern itself too much over security.
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Another variant of the Sober virus, which spreads hate messages in German and English, appeared over the weekend. Security firms are warning that they have received hundreds of thousands of e-mails generated by Sober.Q in its first 24 hours.
A series of follies by antivirus provider Symantec could well lead customers deeper into a quagmire of confusion and panic, says Fran Foo.
Commentary: Anti-virus software won't protect you from the latest type of worm affecting Windows systems -- you need a personal firewall.
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