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Goner proves social viruses still a threat
News The rapidly spreading Pentagone (or "Goner") worm is proof that many people are still falling victim to viruses that are activated by tricking them into double-clicking an attachment. The mass-mailing Internet worm, written in Visual Basic Script...
[December 5, 2001, 12:00]
Major smartphone worm 'by 2007'
News Despite this intense vendor- and media-driven speculation - and several well-publicised hoaxes - the necessary conditions required for viruses or worms to pose a real rapidly spreading threat to more than 30 percent of enterprise mobile devices...
[June 22, 2005, 9:25]
Third Sobig worm strikes, and more may follow
News A variant of the Sobig worm appeared over the weekend and is now spreading rapidly. Besides spreading by email, it also copies itself to the "startup" directories on other computers on the network. This is the third Sobig variant to hit the...
[June 2, 2003, 15:28]
'Gumblar' web attacks spreading quickly
News The attackers behind a series of rapidly spreading website compromises have begun using a new domain to deliver their malicious code, security experts said on Monday. The attacks, collectively referred to as 'Gumblar' by ScanSafe and 'Troj/JSRedir...
[May 19, 2009, 11:14]
Antivirus firms fear Bagle's bite
News Computer-security experts fear a new worm -- Bagle-A -- which has begun spreading rapidly across Australian email networks could be a rehearsal for a more concerted attack in coming weeks.eAccording to Daniel Zatz, security director for Computer...
[January 19, 2004, 8:00]
VeriSign warns of organised gangs behind Net crime
Talkback Funny… This article is such a fine example of a mind virus, a rapidly spreading belief, and a false one at that. Until when will this misinformation spread? It spreads in such a way that people accept the info for granted without questioning it and...
[November 18, 2004, 20:04]
Service-Oriented Architecture for Building a Scalable Videoconferencing System
White Papers On one hand, broadband Internet connections are spreading rapidly. The availability of increasing network bandwidth and the computing power provides new opportunities for videoconferencing systems over Internet.
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
.911™ - FREE Emergency Responder Resource
Downloads .911™ - FREE Emergency Responder Resource Click here for Memory Card support information .911™ - FREE Emergency Responder Resource911 is a resource that incorporates content from Outlines in Clinical Medicine/Medical Emergencies (OCM/911...
[August 14, 2003, 8:00]
.911™ - FREE Emergency Responder Resource
Downloads .911™- FREE Emergency Responder Resource Click here for Memory Card support information .911™ - FREE Emergency Responder Resource911 is a resource that incorporates content from Outlines in Clinical Medicine/Medical Emergencies (OCM/911...
[August 14, 2003, 8:00]
Performance Evaluation of Single-Mode and Multimode Fiber in LAN Environment
White Papers This is achieved by observing the pulse spreading and attenuation in optical spectrum and eye-diagram that are obtained using OptSim simulator. Optical networks are high capacity networks that meet the rapidly growing demand for bandwidth in the...
[October 9, 2009, 1:53]
Crafty Bagle viruses keep spreading review
Reviews However, the two new variations of Bagle were responsible for spreading four new versions of a Trojan horse. In August 2003, the Sobig.f virus spread rapidly to as many computers as it could over a five-day period, then attempted to contact 1 of 20...
[March 7, 2005, 10:00]
PayPal users targeted by latest Mimail mutant
News Just days after being hit by the Mimail.i worm, PayPal users are now under attack from Mimail.j, which is spreading rapidly. According to security company F-Secure, Mimail.j is almost identical to Mimail.i but seems to be spreading more quickly...
[November 18, 2003, 13:35]
Swen prevention and cure
News Because Swen spreads via email, IRC, P2P, and shared network files and shows signs of spreading rapidly, this virus rates a 6 on the ZDNet Virus Meter. Yet another Internet virus pretending to be a patch from Microsoft is spreading quickly on the...
[September 19, 2003, 12:45]
Virus hoax curtails Christmas fun
News The warning message seems to be spreading rapidly between companies," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for London-based Sophos Anti-Virus, in a statement. As if there are not enough computer viruses, a Christmas Grinch has been...
[December 15, 1999, 10:03]
Sober worm goes into hibernation
News The Sober.P worm stopped spreading across the Internet on Tuesday after virus writers remotely silenced thousands of infected computers overnight, experts said on Friday. Antivirus companies now believe that the virus writers responsible for Sober...
[May 13, 2005, 12:30]
The truth about viruses, worms and trojans
News Having a single AV vendor means a single point of contact for such problems, which can be especially useful in the early days of a rapidly-spreading new infection about which little is known. By having more than one brand of AV software, you can...
[October 16, 2002, 14:54]
Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft bugs
News The worm started spreading about 9:30pm PST last Friday, just one day after Microsoft chairman Bill Gates sent a memo to customers stating that the company had "accomplished a lot" in its first year of its Trustworthy Computing initiative.
[January 27, 2003, 7:02]
Witty 'probably an ISS inside job'
News Patient Zero" refers to the system used to initiate the spreading of the worm. Network telescopes have been a key to investigating the spread of worms since Code Red started spreading in mid-2001. Additionally, it is likely that the attacker knew...
[May 26, 2005, 16:15]
The Internet worm comes of age
News Within hours the worm's 99 lines of code overloaded thousands of Unix-based VAX and Sun systems and forced administrators to disconnect their computers from the network to try and stop the worm from spreading.
[November 3, 2004, 8:48]
Fizzer virus spreads through Kazaa
News Computer users are being warned of a new virus which has been spreading rapidly in the wild in the Far East and has now reached Europe. Fizzer is a self-propagating worm which can propogates itself via email and peer-to-peer file sharing service...
[May 12, 2003, 14:12]
