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MSN hosting '10 percent of spammers' sites'
News Dan Hubbard, Websense senior director of security and technology research, said that more malware was found on free hosting services during the first two weeks of July than in May and June combined. Last month, Internet security firm Websense...
[August 26, 2005, 10:25]
Change of tactics in war on viruses
News With increasingly diversified threats and a splintered antivirus industry, some security providers are arguing that mainstream antivirus companies are simply not nimble enough to cope with new waves of malware.
[March 1, 2006, 14:35]
Inside the Symantec Security Response labs
News Part of Symantec's main European campus in Dublin houses Symantec Security Response labs, which analyses samples of malware and pushes out antivirus signatures to customers. The Symantec Dublin campus at Blanchardstown also contains the company's...
[February 29, 2008, 16:31]
Mobile-botnet threat 'a ticking time bomb'
News Mobile botnets have not yet appeared in security laboratories or the wild but conditions are already ripe for malware attacks to turn mobile phones into zombies, according to a security researcher. Chia added: "We haven't seen much mobile-malware...
[October 27, 2008, 12:20]
Symantec: Security reporting chain is broken
News Top of the list [in security admin]: apply patches, since malware like MPack [a PHP-based malware kit] attacks in eight different ways," said Clayton. Speaking at the 2007 Parliament and the Internet Conference in Westminster on Thursday, Symantec...
[October 22, 2007, 15:08]
Governments prepare for 'cyber cold war'
News Hackers have dedicated quality-assurance capabilities that they run on all of their malware to make sure that their malware doesn't get detected. He found his family had been the victim of a spear-phishing attack, in which his child had been...
[December 3, 2007, 10:58]
Webcast: Does Your Anti-virus REALLY Protect You Against Spyware?
White Papers Check out this TechRepublic Webcast, now available on demand, to hear Sunbelt Software's President, Alex Eckelberry, and Director of Malware Research, Eric Howes, discuss spyware detection and why the lack of a specific and aggressive anti-spyware...
[December 5, 2006, 11:57]
The Future Starts Now: Symantec Endpoint Protection V11.0 Available Today
White Papers Director of Product Marketing at Symantec, provides a discussion on how Symantec Endpoint Protection combines Symantec AntiVirus with advanced threat prevention to deliver unmatched defense against malware such as viruses, worms, spyware, Trojans...
[May 1, 2008, 1:02]
Toxic blogs threaten Web users
News At the time, Dan Hubbard, senior director of security and technology research at Websense, said more malware was found on free hosting services during the first two weeks of July than in May and June combined.
[October 4, 2005, 9:35]
Symantec warns of spike in job-related spam
News Some of the emails containing malware have disguised the malicious attachments as job applications. Furthermore, fake anti-malware programs have doubled in number, it said. He said in the advisory: "Rogue anti-malware applications are not something...
[March 23, 2009, 8:43]
Symantec attacks Microsoft's Forefront Client Security
News OneCare failed to reach the Virus Bulletin malware detection benchmark last year, and in March this year incorrectly quarantined and deleted some Outlook and Outlook Express files. Microsoft remains committed to investing in OneCare and Microsoft...
[May 9, 2007, 16:32]
Microsoft replaces OneCare with free product
News Because they're not concerned about malware, the number of people who don't have antivirus software or don't keep it up to date exceeds 50 percent in developed markets, and it's worse in emerging markets," Amy Barzdukas, senior director of product...
[November 19, 2008, 7:35]
Conficker wakes up, updates itself over P2P
News The update appeared to be attempting to access the Waledac domain, according to a post on the TrendLabs Malware Blog on Wednesday. It then deleted all traces of itself in the host machine, and was set to shut down on 3 May, according to the...
[April 9, 2009, 14:02]
Microsoft announces imminent security release
News The beta of Microsoft Client Protection will be aimed at business desktops, laptops and file servers, and will be "primarily anti-malware", according to Mike Chan, Microsoft anti-spyware product manager.
[October 6, 2005, 17:15]
Microsoft 'frightened' by police XP hack
News Getting onto the unsecured wireless network, pinging possible IP addresses of other computers on the network, finding Andy's unpatched computer, scanning open ports for vulnerabilities, using the attack tool to build an exploit, and using the...
[November 13, 2007, 10:26]
Microsoft blames users for Vista infections
News Software giant Microsoft has claimed user "complacency" is to blame for malware infections, and denied that its Vista operating system is less secure than Windows 2000. However, recent research conducted with statistics from over 1.4 million...
[May 15, 2008, 13:58]
Virus with SOCKS appeal targets corporate PCs
News On the F-Secure blog, Jarkko Turkulainen, the Finnish antivirus company's binary virus researcher, said the latest Bagle no longer tries to "download Mitglieder trojans for opening up spam proxies on infected computers", instead the malware "can...
[August 8, 2005, 14:40]
Email users warned of PDF risk
News While it is difficult for an attacker to embed any malware within a PDF file, the spam can present a risk nonetheless. On most PDF spam captured so far, the malware doesn't sit within the PDF and can't be executed merely by opening the PDF.
[August 2, 2007, 8:43]
Fear users, says IDC security chief
News The security aspects of how you control the user [include their] loading inappropriate applications and malware prevention — there's a need to get control," he said. Businesses should "refresh their threat mix" to also take account of regulatory...
[September 25, 2007, 13:41]
All quiet on the Nyxem front
News The multi-faceted malware also attempts to propagate itself both through email and as a network worm, which can be particularly damaging on closed networks. Most companies are seeing the virus at the gateway but not in large numbers — typically a...
[February 3, 2006, 12:05]
