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  • German hate-spam spread by Sober virus

    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.

  • Sober worm hits new heights

    The Sober.P worm is circulating the Internet in greater quantities than ever, according to antivirus company Sophos.

  • Trojan horse scanner pitch is a sneaky worm

    An e-mail announcing a new Trojan horse scanner is itself an Internet worm that could flood e-mail servers with useless mail.

  • Clock ticking on new Sober onslaught

    A new outbreak of Sober may be coming, security experts have warned, even as e-mail systems worldwide work to get rid of the last infestation of the mass-mailing worm.

  • Sober worm now 4 percent of all e-mail

    One in every 22 e-mails circulating the Internet on Wednesday contained the latest version of the Sober worm, according to latest statistics from a UK antivirus company.

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  • German hate-spam spread by Sober virus

    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 globetrotter's guide to cyber crime

    Is the war on cyber crime as simple as pointing the finger at China, Russia and the US? We investigate whether these parts of the world are being unfairly blamed.

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

  • Sober.d prevention and cure

    What appears to be yet another Microsoft security patch for the MyDoom worm is actually a computer virus. Sober.d (w32.sober.d@mm, also known as Roca.a) is the fourth member of the Sober mass-mailing virus family written in Visual Basic.

  • Virus writers elude Microsoft's bounty hunt

    A year on, and the company's US$1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one (alleged) virus writer. Is it a bust?

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