Netsky-P tops the list of the worst virus outbreaks in 2004--a year marked with nearly a 52 percent increase in new viruses, according to a report released Wednesday by security software maker Sophos.
A hacking competition will attempt to prove that signature-based antivirus is dead but security vendors say, apart from signatures, antivirus is alive and well.
An insidious piece of software classified by most security vendors as a trojan has been updated to include not just the tapping of voice calls and SMS, but also the bugging of a mobile user's e-mail and tracking of a user's location.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Spammers are exploiting YouTube's "Invite your Friends" facility to send spam containing a Storm Trojan from the video sharing site.
According to one security vendor, Mac users are at a crossroad this year: will or won't they prove to be as gullible as their PC cousins when it comes to security?
Antivirus applications from Symantec, McAfee or Trend Micro -- the three leading AV vendors in 2005 according to Gartner -- are far less likely to detect new viruses and Trojans than the least popular brands.
The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?
Rootkits, which alter the kernel of an operating system and allow malicious code to hide from security software, seem to have stumped the security industry.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Could quarantining e-mails be a better way of dealing with viruses than the traditional approach used by most antivirus companies?
Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.
Responding to criticism levelled at its software developers by Australia's lead computer security authority, Microsoft Australia said it would attempt to make its products more "resilient" to virus attacks.
Critical security questions answered in the second part of this series include holding data to ransom, scaremongering, Internet law, spammers making money, the uber-virus, and spyware at home.
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