Valentine e-greetings from a stranger are likely to contain destructive Trojans, according to the FBI.
New Zealand Police this week swooped on an alleged botnet operator in New Zealand, who the FBI claims had illegal control over one million computers.
Despite being released in the third week of last month, Sober was by far the most successful piece of malware and accounted for more than 40 percent of all viruses in November, according to Sophos.
The latest Sober virus, which was first spotted over the weekend, has generated the vast majority of virus-laden e-mail traffic over the last 24 hours and could cause problems for corporate e-mail gateways, according to anti-virus firms.
An Auckland computer hacker, who scammed hundreds of thousands of dollars and attracted the FBI to New Zealand, has been jailed for three years.
Internal employees are becoming the biggest threat in organisations, according to the annual FBI and the Computer Security Institute computer 2004 crime report. But attacks and costs are down.
You are not defenseless in the fight against keystroke loggers. A program has been designed specifically to head off corporate spying programs, unlike antivirus and desktop security programs that can capture only some spy programs.
An estimated 27,000 people have been affected by an identity theft ring that was discovered earlier this month, according to Sunbelt Software, the security company that uncovered the operation.
The worst part of SoBig.F may not be that it is spreading quickly and bogging down networks. Several antivirus companies have discovered that this worm carries a hidden Trojan.
Although the threat of computer viruses has been a latent concern for well over a decade, experts have warned that a massive viral outbreak has the potential to seriously compromise the very backbone of the Internet. ZDNet Australia takes a look at the viruses of 2001, and the threats for the future.
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