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Report backs PDF variant for long-term archiving
News The UK's National Archives has welcomed a report that backs a variant of Adobe's portable document format standard as a reliable way of preserving documents for future use. However, the organisation has warned that other file formats will need to...
[April 24, 2008, 17:22]
Unihan Variant Dictionary
Downloads The Unihan Variant Dictionary allows a user to enter any character and receive a list of corresponding variants, as well as the following information: unicode code point, pronunciation, and meaning. "Unihan variants" are alternate forms of...
[April 6, 2007, 8:00]
New Zafi variant goes for Google
News The latest variant of the Zafi worm was discovered on Wednesday and unlike the previous two variants, Zafi.C has been coded to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Google.com, Microsoft.com and miniszterelnok.hu, which is...
[October 28, 2004, 12:04]
Storm Worm variant sneaks into blogs
News A variant of the Trojan horse attacks known as Storm Worm emerged Monday, targeting people who post blogs and notices to bulletin boards. The new Storm Worm variant attacks the machines of unsuspecting users when they open an email attachment...
[February 28, 2007, 9:23]
New Sasser variant indicates copycat script kiddie
News A new variant of the Sasser worm has appeared, even though the worm's author was arrested in Germany last week. Studying the evolution of Sasser, the fact that variant F does not include any new features confirms that it is the work of a different...
[May 11, 2004, 17:35]
New Netsky variant appears from Korea
News Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research at European antivirus firm F-Secure, said the latest variant contains two hidden strings: "SoonChunHyang" and "Bucheon". So I guess this variant has something to do with South Korea," Hyppönen said.
[October 22, 2004, 11:40]
Klez worm variant infests UK
News A variant of the Klez worm which resurfaced earlier this week has begun to spread extremely quickly, with the UK as its top target, according to an antivirus firm. Email security firm MessageLabs first detected the new variant on Monday, coming...
[April 19, 2002, 16:23]
Klez variant strikes unprotected PCs
News More than a week after it first started spreading, the latest variant of the Klez worm continues to infect PC users that haven't taken steps to protect themselves. While the number of computers infected by the Klez.H variant falls short of such...
[April 25, 2002, 8:56]
Mimail variant trys PayPal fraud
News Users are being warned about a new variant of the Mimail worm on the loose that takes victims to a fake PayPal Web page in an attempt to steal credit card details. The variant, W32/Mimail-I, hits inboxes with the subject line "Your Paypal.com...
[November 14, 2003, 14:10]
Microsoft offers bounty for creator of MyDoom variant
News The MyDoom.B variant appeared on Wednesday and, among other things, prevents an infected PC from accessing some Microsoft Web sites and targets Microsoft's main Web site with a denial-of-service attack due to start on 1 February.
[January 30, 2004, 7:15]
Impact of Background Traffic on Performance of High-Speed TCP Variant Protocols
White Papers This paper examines the effect of background traffic on the performance of existing high-speed TCP variant protocols, namely BIC-TCP, CUBIC, FAST, HSTCP, H-TCP and Scalable TCP. It also demonstrates that the stability, link utilization, convergence...
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
CUBIC: A New TCP-Friendly High-Speed TCP Variant
White Papers This paper presents a new TCP variant, called CUBIC, for high-speed network environments. CUBIC is an enhanced version of BIC: it simplifies the BIC window control and improves its TCP-friendliness and RTT-fairness.
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
Code Red variant causes little alarm
News Security experts said Wednesday there was little cause for alarm from a minor new variant of the destructive Code Red worm that began circulating this week. The new variant is detected by existing virus signatures for Code Red, according to the...
[March 13, 2003, 8:36]
Netsky variant uses compression trick
News Virus hunters at McAfee have identified a new variant of the Netsky virus and rate it as a medium risk. The Portuguese Netsky variant was discovered on 13 October. Like other Netsky viruses, the W32/Netskyag@MM offshoot uses an email to gain entry...
[October 15, 2004, 11:40]
LoveBug variant steals bank details
News A LoveBug variant has been detected trying to capture password details from Swiss Internet banking customers, according to US security and antivirus experts. US computer security firm ICSA.net has reportedly found evidence of the virus being used...
[August 17, 2000, 12:04]
Netsky author signs out with final variant
News The latest variant of the Netsky worm, which is the eleventh in less than a month, will be the last, according to a coded message from the worm's author. Netsky.K was discovered on Monday and security researchers found an unexpected message from...
[March 9, 2004, 12:25]
Trojan variant plagues Skype
News A new variant of a well-known Trojan horse virus is spreading through Skype's instant-messaging network, a security company has warned. The first variant of Warezov/Stration was reported in September last year by Symantec.
[March 23, 2007, 15:08]
LoveLetter worm variant spams spies
News A new variant of the LoveLetter worm has surfaced that contains a list of words designed to attract software that monitors electronic communications for national security threats. Dubbed "VBS/LoveLet-CL" by UK antivirus company, Sophos, the mass...
[May 17, 2001, 9:02]
Latest variant of Downadup worm circulating
News A new variant of the Downadup internet worm, also known as Conficker, is circulating, opening up a backdoor that could allow an attacker to distribute malware to infected machines, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned on Monday.
[February 24, 2009, 8:48]
XML variant will boost corporate responsibility says UN
News The XML variant is an evolving global standard for tagging data about a company in such a way that it can be processed automatically. A new XML-based reporting language could improve companies' reporting of their businesses' social and...
[November 8, 2004, 17:03]
