Today's virus outbreaks are not as loud as the Code Red attacks of a couple years ago, but beneath the quieter computing landscape is a perilous push to turn the growing amount of personal computers and personal information into profit through cybercrime, the latest Threat Report from security firm ...
Internet security firm VeriSign today announced it has acquired Reston, Va.-based security intelligence firm iDefense for approximately US$40 million in cash. iDefense provides special intelligence information about network-based security threats and vulnerabilities to financial services firms, gove...
Bidding to boost its standing among security companies by acquiring one of the fastest growing forms of computer menace, Trend Micro said today it would buy a privately held anti-spyware firm in a deal worth about US$15 million. Trend Micro, which is based in Tokyo, Japan, said it would buy InterMu...
The Federal Trade Commission has barred an operation that offered bogus spyware detection scans. The free scanner "detected" spyware whether it was present on the user's computer or not in an underhanded attempt to peddle its non-working anti-spyware software, according to the government agency. The...
Another strain of the MyDoom worm is on the loose and is spreading quickly today, according to antivirus firm Sophos. The new MyDoom variant emerged yesterday and can use search engines Google, Yahoo, Lycos and AltaVista to try to gather e-mail addresses to send itself to. The original version of th...
A hacker broke into wireless carrier T-Mobile's server systems network over at least seven months and read e-mails and personal computer files of the U.S. Secret Service, along with hundreds of other customers, the government has announced. Security experts said this is the first of what is expected...
A Trojan dubbed "Downloader.GK" caused the most damage to computers in 2004, marking the first time a worm hasn't occupied the top spot, according to Panda Software. This signifies an important change in the impact that malicious code is having on computers, the company concluded. Downloader.GK is b...
Variants of the Santy worm have started to appear that use Google -- which is credited with moving quickly to thwart the original attack -- and other search engines to spread, and then infect and deface Web bulletin boards. The original Santy appeared just before Christmas and was meant to use Googl...
Danish security firm Secunia has issued warnings about a vulnerability in most Web browsers that could open the door to hackers hijacking pop-up windows on trusted Web sites to launch phishing attacks. The vulnerability can be exploited regardless of which Web site is the true "owner" of the pop-up ...
About a week after Lycos Europe stirred spammers with its anti-spam screensaver, hackers continue to attack the brand, this time with an e-mail that pretends to be Lycos offering the screensaver but which actually is a trojan. Lycos Europe withdrew its controversial screensaver, which replied to unw...
Lycos Europe waged war against spammers earlier this week but the battles have now resulted in it withdrawing its controversial Web site, replacing it with a graphic that urges visitors to "stay tuned!" Lycos Europe announced on Monday it had created a downloadable screensaver aimed at putting spamm...
Hoping to secure large corporate customers by addressing one of the fastest-growing Internet-related security threats, McAfee has launched an enterprise software product aimed specifically at identifying and eradicating spyware, adware and related programs. McAfee's Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition ...
An alleged Microsoft hacker was arrested yesterday on charges that he illegally sold a secret source code used for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 programs. The United States Attorney's Office in Manhattan charged William P. Genovese, Jr., 27, of Connecticut, with unlawfully distributing a trade sec...
The Source Code Club is back in business, if you can call it that. The anonymous hacker group began peddling proprietary source code last July, disappeared, and now has reemerged with a bargain basement deal of US$24,000 for the source code for Cisco's Pix security firewall. "SCC is proud to announc...
Security companies have identified a new worm spreading through Microsoft's instant messaging platform. The worm, known as the Funner worm, originated in Asia but is quickly spreading to the U.S., according to instant messaging security firm IMLogic. The worm has only been spotted to date on the Mic...
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