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  • 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.

  • Instant Messaging attacks increase 723 percent in Q1

    Gartner predicts that all enterprises will be using Instant Messenger (IM) by 2010, which should send alarm bells ringing as IM attacks have increased by more than 700 percent in the past year.

  • 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.

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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?

  • 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.

  • Fizzer worm spreads across the Internet

    A very clever mass-mailing worm is spreading rapidly across the Internet and has many different components, each timed to trigger different processes.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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