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Spammers have set up close to 90 URL shortening services, Paul Wood, a senior intelligence analyst at Symantec, told TechNewsWorld. In all, about 190 domains that spammers might use to host URL shortening service fronts have been set up, he said Short URLs are "very powerful ...

"An email may seem to come from someone you know, but it isn't easy to validate that fact," said Paul Wood, MessageLabs Intelligence senior analyst at Symantec In 2010, MessageLabs tracked phishing attacks impersonating or relating to 1,530 different organizations, Woods told ...

"I think many cybercriminals will turn their attention to finding the next Twitter bug," Paul Wood, a senior analyst with MessageLabs Intelligence at Symantec Hosted Services, told the E-Commerce Times. "Twitter has become a killer app for the Internet; don't let it be the silent killer for your business."

"Make sure operating systems and applications are updated with the latest patches," Paul Wood, a Symantec MessageLabs Intelligence senior analyst, advised Users should not open suspicious email attachments or attachments that aren't expected, Woods told TechNewsWorld....

As the 2010 Winter Olympics kick off in Vancouver, the games are on everyone's radar, including the cybercriminals who are looking to capitalize on this world event to spread malware and stage a few targeted attacks. ...

"We are committed to protecting America's aquatic resources under the Clean Water Act and in accordance with the recent Supreme Court decision," said John Paul Woodley Jr., assistant secretary of the Army, civil works. "This interagency guidance will enable the agencies to make clear, consistent and predictable jurisdictional determinations. The results, once posted on agency Web sites, will document how the scope of the Clean Water Act jurisdiction is being determined."

"SpamThru Trojans can learn about other bots and create peer-to-peer communities, much the same way file-sharing networks operate," Paul Wood, a senior analyst at MessageLabs, told the E-Commerce Times. "Once a cybercriminal gets a bot on one computer, that computer becomes a new channel and will contact many other bots to let them know where they are. Then the bot network can access that computer and send out even more spam."

"In recent weeks the volume of spiritual spam has increased significantly," Paul Wood, chief information security analyst for MessageLabs, told the E-Commerce Times Spiritual spam has been around for some time. However, until now, at 2 percent, it has been a very small proport...

While he said the proposed standards are a potential part of the solution to spam, Message Labs chief information security analyst Paul Wood told TechNewsWorld there are still issues to be worked out with the proposed Sender ID technology Wood explained that even if the approa...

"We have seen over 80,000 copies of Bagle, and this number is rising at an alarming rate," said MessageLabs chief information security analyst Paul Wood, whose company issued a high-level alert on the worm. "This is despite using unsophisticated social engineering techniques and clearly displaying an executable attachment."

MessageLabs chief information security analyst Paul Wood told TechNewsWorld that the continued trend to attack known vulnerabilities by scanning the same vulnerable ports and releasing virus variants indicates widespread lack of patching, firewall use and other security measures...

MessageLabs chief information security analyst Paul Wood told TechNewsWorld that the arrests could serve as a deterrent, but only at "the lower level of the virus-writer hierarchy -- the script kiddies." It's not likely to put off the hard-core criminals, Wood said As the writ...

MessageLabs chief information security analyst Paul Wood told TechNewsWorld that variants of different computer viruses and worms typically come from one of two sources -- either the same person who wrote the first version of the virus or a new person who does additional work to extend the malicious code...

MessageLabs chief information security analyst Paul Wood told TechNewsWorld that the unknown code is likely a trojan download, which grants control of a computer to a remote attacker. However, Wood said the Internet addresses in question likely will be shut down or isolated, and the preemptive ISP blockage of UDP port 8998 -- the port on which the worm will access the trojan -- probably will keep the variant contained...

While antivirus and security experts were able to avert a timed download included as part of SoBig.F late last week, MessageLabs chief information security analyst Paul Wood told TechNewsWorld that the worm's variants have followed an evolutionary path that is expected to continue...

MessageLabs chief information analyst Paul Wood told TechNewsWorld that recent worms such as SoBig and MiMail are part of a trend in which virus writers use spamming software to propagate worms "Potentially, we could see more and more of that happening, where virus, trojan and...

It is likely the worm was originally launched using bulk e-mail, or spam, software, which contributed to a quick start for MiMail, according to Message Labs chief information analyst Paul Wood Wood told TechNewsWorld that the combination of viruses, trojans and spamming softwa...

However, Ford Motor Company spokesperson Paul Wood told the E-Commerce Times that the automaker will continue to use EDS CAD software, and that both solutions are part of Ford's design strategy. "It's not a win or lose for IBM/Dassault or EDS," he said. "It's a reallocation of their resources."