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Inbox menace - Bugbear
News Within just a few days, this infection spread so quickly that Symantec increased the threat rating of this worm twice. Once it installs itself on one PC, it can spread through network connections as well as email messages.
[October 10, 2002, 13:01]
CommWarrior mobile virus hits UK
News Between 0800 and 0000, a phone infected with CommWarrior will attempt to spread the infection to other phones over Bluetooth. While this is the first reported CommWarrior infection in the UK, it's likely that other UK citizens have been sent the...
[June 28, 2005, 17:05]
Remote tool attacks Windows servers
News It doesn't go and try to spread. The ability to spread automatically is the hallmark of a computer worm. Although one of the programs sports the name "worm.exe," the resulting set of files is not a worm, because it doesn't spread automatically...
[August 4, 2003, 8:55]
MyDoom crowned 'worst ever'
News F-Secure attributed the worm's fast spread to several factors, including aggressive harvesting of email addresses and the fact that it was released in the middle of the North American workday, giving it several hours to spread unchecked among...
[January 29, 2004, 7:45]
MSBlast still spreading strongly
News A wide range of estimates for the spread of a worm are a common problem in gauging the effects of such an attack. The worm is expected to continue to spread despite the aborted attack. Earlier reports that network traffic caused by the MSBlast worm...
[August 18, 2003, 8:40]
Synanthropy, and ice cream for crow
Blog Klein posits that if you can get a few crows trained, then the idea will spread naturally throughout the population - and that means that mostly, human intervention can be restricted to seeding the idea and then leaving enough machines around.
[March 5, 2008, 10:32]
Virus reignites mobile malware squabble
News However, F-Secure denied on Monday that it was trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt. However, Symbian indicated that mobile antivirus may not be necessary, as the operating systems themselves have already been hardened, and current mobile...
[August 8, 2006, 13:45]
Facebook comes under phishing attack again
News The purpose of phishing attacks is generally identify theft and to spread spam. Hackers used a phishing attack last year to spread a malicious virus known as Koobface. Hackers launched an attack on Facebook's 200 million users on Thursday...
[May 15, 2009, 17:05]
Hoaxing becoming part of Web fabric
News In most cases, the worst they spread is fear and uncertainty, like the recurrent warnings about a supposed virus called "GoodTimes" (the virus doesn't exist). The Internet, with its ability to instantly distribute information in a personal, almost...
[October 27, 1997, 9:02]
A Year Ago: Denial of Service attacks loom in GM food protest
News We'd like to spread the resources around the world to create 'distributed bandwidth'," the email reads. The tools we are developing will select a source for control[ing] information at random in order to spread the load on the servers involved.
[March 16, 2001, 6:03]
A billion internet users can be wrong
Leader Invented in 1991, it's taken exactly the same time for the web to spread from Tim Berners-Lee in his Geneva cubicle to a billion people worldwide as it has for Guns N' Roses to record a new studio album.
[January 26, 2009, 16:53]
Warezov worm surfaces again
News The last Warezov attack spread through Skype's instant-messaging network. F-Secure first reported its spread into Skype at the end of February. Security vendor Kaspersky has reported a new variant of the Warezov worm.
[April 20, 2007, 11:59]
Philips loss to be followed by 4,000 job cuts
News In a statement, Philips warned that the downturn in the semiconductor, telecoms and PC sectors had worsened and spread to all the major economic areas. Although Philips was expected to record a loss, the suggestion that the US slowdown had spread...
[July 17, 2001, 10:57]
Homepage worm spreads quicker than Lovebug
News MessageLabs, a UK company that outsources virus tracking technology to stop the spread of computer viruses and worms, said that since yesterday evening it has seen more than 12,000 copies of the Homepage worm in the UK alone.
[May 9, 2001, 11:29]
New Unix worm could be the next Code Red
News This is definitely the way forward with viruses, as it removes the need for humans to double click on attachments in order for the worm to spread, and instead looks for servers that have not been patched.
[September 10, 2001, 16:58]
Net worm hobbles Linux servers
News As of Wednesday afternoon, the worm continued to spread. Because of Ramen's ability to spread without any human intervention and because it targets servers based on Linux -- a cousin of Unix -- the Ramen worm resembles the Morris worm that used...
[January 18, 2001, 7:55]
Researchers claim stealth encryption breakthrough
News The intended recipient decodes the message by using information about how the secret message was originally spread out, using another optical device to change the message back to its original state. The method should be secure because even if...
[October 13, 2006, 16:00]
Microsoft lures big names for embedded OS
News Though it hasn't encroached much on Microsoft's stronghold on desktop computers, Linux has spread rapidly to the embedded market, with backing from Red Hat and many smaller companies. Microsoft is aiming to spread its Windows software into as many...
[April 10, 2001, 10:56]
Inktomi aims to block Web-based viruses
News Nimda is a perfect example of something that spread through a Web site mechanism. Normally, viruses that spread using the Web are easily defanged by simply shutting down infected sites. Web-software company Inktomi announced on Tuesday that it has...
[April 11, 2002, 9:45]
Klez variant strikes unprotected PCs
News However, Perry added that, while the way that Klez is infecting computers seems to indicate that the worm is being "seeded" or spread by design, he had no evidence that this was indeed the case. Trilling wouldn't say whether users' failure to...
[April 25, 2002, 8:56]
