It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope? Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how […]
The malicious code, known as both Warezov and Stration, is similar to?an earlier version detected in February,?but with a new URL (uniform resource locator) and a new version of the malicious code, according to an alert posted Thursday by Websense Inc. Websense warns Skype users to watch for the message “Check up this,” with a […]
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The Mac OS X system is not inherently more secure than other operating systems, according to the researcher. The Unix/BSD code on which OS X is based is fairly well known, and van Oers noted that there are more than 700 pieces of malware targeting various Unix and Linux platforms. Vulnerabilities in OS X are […]
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The purveryors of malware are becoming increasingly well-organised and financed, according to vendor?Symantec‘s?Internet Security Threat Report. In the past?e-criminals made money from selling code, estiablishing botnets, or spamming, but gangs are now performing all three functions themselves to provide more co-ordianated attacks. ‘We are starting to see blended threats much more,’ said Ollie Whitehouse, researcher […]
The number of computers hijacked by malicious hackers to send out spam and viruses has grown almost 30% in the last year, according to a survey. More than six million computers world wide are now part of a “bot network”, reported security firm Symantec. Computer users typically do not know that their PC has been […]
