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25% Of Malware Spread Via USB Drives |
Email and peer-to-peer networks also rank as significant venues for malware attacks, which have increased slightly in the U.S. but declined in Europe, according to Panda Security. |
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Is Your Mobile Phone Infected By Malware? |
A researcher from the SANS Institute asked the question to readers of his blog, and the answers raise concerns. |
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World Cup 2010 a great reason to send spam |
The high-profile tournament is currently being used as the subject of 4% of the world's spam emails. |
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Waledac Botnet Takedown A Success |
Three weeks after Microsoft took it down, Waledac "looks crippled, if not dead." |
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Greg Hoglund speaks to Help-Net Security |
Help-Net Security recently published an interview with Greg Hoglund, CEO and Founder of HBGary, in which he speaks of the challenges and implications of malware analysis. |
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Experts getting close to uncovering Aurora's secrets |
The cyber threat at the origin of attacks against Google and others is still at large, but security experts are slowly finding patterns that will reveal the identity of its creator. |
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Facebook deemed the most risky social networking Web site, and by far |
According to a December 2009 survey, the most popular social network also beats its competitors when it comes to cyber threats. |
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CA 'State of the Internet 2009' puts rogue security software in first place |
As the end of the year approaches, another information security firm publishes its yearly report. |
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McAfee reports Cameroon's .CM hosts the riskiest Web sites |
For a third year, security firm McAfee published its "Mapping the Mal Web" report documenting the world's riskiest and safest top-level domains (TLD). This time, Cameroon leads the way, a place occupied in 2008 by Hong Kong's .HK domain. |
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Security firms cannot protect the iPhone from threats |
Recent incidents have put the iPhone's security in focus, but firms will not be able to develop anti-virus because of the nature of the system. |
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CSI Annual Report: Financial Fraud, Malware On The Increase |
Security pros generally happy with products; not so much with awareness programs |
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Anti-Virus Comparative: Malware removal test |
AV-Comparatives recently released a document detailing malware removal tests done with 16 common anti-virus programs. The report details if and how each software succeeds in removing the ten malware AV-Comparatives had applied to a test machine.
"AV-Comparatives is an Austrian Non-Profit-Organization, which is providing independent Anti-Virus software tests free to the public." (About AV-Comparatives) |
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Microsoft reports worms are invading Windows again |
The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) for the first half of 2009 (January to June) reports less new vulnerabilities but almost twice as much Internet worm infections as during the second half of 2008. |
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HP admits to selling infected flash-floppy drives |
Hewlett-Packard has been selling USB-based hybrid flash-floppy drives that were pre-infected with malware, the company said last week in a security bulletin. |
