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CA warns 'Plage2000' is in the wild
News The worm has been reported to be "in the wild" by customers of Computer Associates, the company said. The original email will be quoted completely in the reply. WinZip self-Extractor -- worm name:worm name -- Application Error The exception unknown...
[January 17, 2000, 9:47]
Trojan exploiting unpatched Office flaw found in the wild
News Microsoft is aware that a Trojan recently released into the wild may be exploiting a publicly reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office," a company representative said in a statement sent via email on Friday.
[October 3, 2005, 8:55]
Green Dam exploit in the wild
News The attack code, which has been posted to the Milw0rm website for proof-of-concept exploits, has been circulating in the wild for a week, according to security consultant and ZDNet blogger Dancho Danchev.
[June 25, 2009, 17:09]
First iPhone Trojan in the wild
News The first iPhone Trojan has been seen in the wild, according to security vendors. The Trojan, known as "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep", or "113 prep", is the first to be seen in the wild, according to Symantec researcher Orla Cox.
[January 8, 2008, 16:30]
Apple QuickTime exploit in the wild
News Symantec has found active exploit code in the wild for an unpatched Apple QuickTime vulnerability. Researcher Joji Hamada wrote in Symantec's Security Response Weblog on Saturday that the company had seen an active exploit for the vulnerability in...
[December 3, 2007, 11:48]
New Linux in the wild
News Now is when we want big companies and software vendors to step in and hammer on the kernel, so we can get their ideas into the final production release of 2.6 Linux," Linus Torvalds, an OSDL fellow, said in a statement.
[October 28, 2003, 7:40]
New Pretty Park virus in the wild
News Instead, it sends a copy of itself to everyone in the victim's email address book every 30 minutes, which could bog down an entire network. It was discovered in mid-February, but at the time wasn't considered to be a serious risk, Shall said.
[March 3, 2000, 13:48]
Symbian worm in the wild
Blog In my opinion, mobile phone malware is currently at an undeveloped stage, where users don't need to worry overly about getting infected - it would be a pain to be infected, but not catastrophic, and the likelihood of infection isn't high.
[January 25, 2008, 17:25]
Linux cryptography attacks seen in the wild
News To initially gain access to Linux kernels, attackers appear to be using compromised keys, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) said in a blog post on Tuesday. IT professionals can tell if their systems have been compromised by...
[August 27, 2008, 16:55]
Analyzing the MAC-level Behavior of Wireless Networks in the Wild
White Papers This paper presents Wit, a non-intrusive tool that builds on passive monitoring to analyze the detailed MAC-level behavior of operational wireless networks. First, a robust merging procedure combines the necessarily incomplete views from multiple...
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Great news to solve enterprise pain with devices-in-the-wild
Talkback Other solutions like Nokia Intellisync or Sparus EveryWAN Mobility Manager are doing quite the same kind of job as System Center Mobile Device Manager. It is great to see that Microsoft thinks it is really important to help enterprises solve their...
[April 2, 2008, 13:29]
Cabir spotted in the US
News A version of the Cabir virus has turned up in two Nokia 6600s on display in a California mobile phone store, in what is believed to be the first "on-the-ground" sighting of the virus in the United States.
[February 21, 2005, 8:05]
The Dongle - a case study in evolution
Blog USB modems are merely the latest: I hadn't realised until that phone call that the dongle had now escaped from Tech Island and was breeding in the wild under this particular plumage. The most common early usage for dongle was as a software...
[May 11, 2008, 13:15]
Handsets World: Stuck in the MID
Blog Handsets World is one of those rather small-scale conferences but, as I mentioned yesterday, full of rather important people in the mobile industry. None have done well with these, although Nokia's done OK in the developer market, because the thing...
[June 11, 2008, 23:59]
Virus combines quadruple-whammy attack
News A new mega-virus that combines three potentially devastating characteristics has been found in the wild by the research laboratories at Symantec Anti-Virus Although Symantec has received only a small number of reports of Mypics, Aled Miles managing...
[December 3, 1999, 15:38]
Westward
Downloads Experience the life of a Frontier settler in the wild, rough and tumble world of Westward! Based on the highly acclaimed PC game by Sandlot Games, Westward offers many hours of absorbing game play as you guide your townsfolk in making camp...
[February 21, 2008, 6:00]
Five years ago: Macro viruses still causing hassles
News The latest in the series became apparent last Friday when ON Technology said it had discovered in the wild a new strain of the Laroux virus that infects Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Dr Solomon's also last week reported on its Web site that a...
[November 11, 2001, 6:00]
Apple users targeted by IM Trojan
News A malicious program that could be the first Trojan in the wild to target Apple's Mac OS X operating system has been discovered, security experts confirmed Thursday. It is news because it targets OS X, and as far as I know, it's certainly the first...
[February 17, 2006, 8:25]
Microsoft patches Excel, Windows, Word flaws
News Microsoft on Tuesday closed security holes in Excel, Windows and Word that had been exploited in the wild, as well as other holes for which exploit code or details exist, all as part of its monthly patch update cycle.
[April 15, 2009, 8:22]
Linux and Unix 'had more vulnerabilities than Windows'
Talkback What matters isn't the amount of vulnerabilities, nor how many have been patched, nor how many have exploits in the wild. I'd rather be using a system with 200 vulnerabilities, 150 of them having an exploit in the wild, and all of them being rated...
[January 6, 2006, 9:52]
