Do you know the difference between a virus and a worm? What about a Trojan horse? Sophos blogger Chet Wisniewski explains the difference between different types of malware. http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw/g/2010/04/03/3-types-viruses-demystified
With Koobface continuing to spreading across Facebook by utilizing hundreds of compromised sites as infection vectors, next to using them as distributed hosting infrastructure in an attempt to undermine potential… Read more »
CDC has received reports of fraudulent emails (phishing) referencing a CDC sponsored State Vaccination Program for H1N1. The messages request that users create a personal H1N1 (swine flu) Vaccination Profile… Read more »
Malicious hackers are using fake alerts around H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccines to trick end users into installing malware on Windows computers, according to warnings issued by computer security firms. The… Read more »
Virus hunters are raising the alarm for a large-scale spam attack that uses fake Facebook password-reset messages to trick PC users into downloading a dangerous piece of malware. The malicious… Read more »
Microsoft today shipped four bulletins with patches for at least 8 documented security vulnerabilities affecting Windows users and warned that “consistent exploit code could be easily crafted” to launch attacks… Read more »
If you’re like most folks you are taking your time installing Microsoft’s latest round of security patches. However, you may want to get your rear end in gear.Specifically apply MS08-001,... Read more »
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft security engineer Robert Hensing had a question for the hundreds of his company’s developers seated before him: can a person’s PC become infected with a rootkit simply by… Read more »
Internet Security Services, IBM’s online-security division, claims to have noticed a significant drop in the number of characters used by fraudsters in their phishing URLs. A post on ISS’s Frequency… Read more »
Here’s an interesting story that I found in my inbox. The Taipei Times is reporting that around 1,800 new 300GB and 500GB external hard drives manufactured by Maxtor shipped with… Read more »
A Microsoft executive calls the ease with which two British e-crime specialists managed to hack into a Windows XP computer as both “enlightening and frightening.” The demonstration took place Monday… Read more »
Adobe Systems, whose software is used by millions of people to read documents sent over the Internet, said some of its programs contain a flaw that makes personal computers vulnerable… Read more »
Spammers are exploiting YouTube’s “invite your friends” function to send spam containing a variant of the “Storm worm.” Bradley Anstis, director of product management at security firm Marshal, said that… Read more »
Most Americans believe their computers are protected against viruses and spyware, but scans found that a large number had outdated or disabled security software, according to a poll released on… Read more »
Nearly nine months after it was first discovered, the Storm Worm Trojan continues to surge, building what experts believe could be the world’s most powerful supercomputer.The Trojan, which uses a… Read more »
