The average UK PC is rendered unusable for the equivalent of around nine working days every year because the owner is cleaning up spam or fighting viruses. This is two days a year more than the average UK worker takes off as sick leave, according to Yahoo.
Microsoft can expect thousands of extra technical support calls after the release of its security update for Windows XP this northern summer, according to security analysts.
Three new Bagle variants discovered over the weekend differ from previous incarnations by using an antispam trick to try to avoid detection by antivirus software--but experts believe the attempt won't succeed.
The latest variant of the mass-mailing Sober worm masquerades as an official Microsoft patch for the MyDoom worm.
Five variations of the Bagle worm were released over the weekend, and two of them use tricks to bypass mail filters and antivirus scanners.
Cesare Tizi, who was the chief information officer at Australia's largest energy supplier AGL Energy, has been awarded the title of ZDNet Australia CIO of the year 2007.
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.
Earlier this week, Munir Kotadia conducted an interview with the general manager of AusCERT, Graham Ingram. Among other subjects, he asked him about rootkits, and how the security industry was going to deal with them in the future. Ingram's answers should send chills down the spine of any chief security officer.
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