Previous
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]
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]
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]
Yaha virus variant heats up
News A new virus, which is believed to be a variant of the Yaha virus, has proven contagious and is infecting thousands of computers worldwide. Email management firm MessageLabs said the virus, which appears to originate in the Middle East, may try to...
[January 2, 2003, 6:45]
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]
Sobig.F is 'worst variant yet'
News The latest variant of the Sobig virus has the ability to spread across file-sharing networks as well as by email, making it the worst strain yet, experts warned on Tuesday afternoon. This variant could be one of the more active viruses of the year...
[August 19, 2003, 18:15]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Bagle variant lacks teeth
News The latest variant of the Bagle virus arrives as an attachment -- called "foto.zip" -- to an email message. As security-conscious Internet service providers shut down the malicious and compromised Web sites, the latest Bagle variant will find it...
[September 2, 2004, 8:45]
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]
Storm worm variant using China quake emails
News The group has received reports of a new variant of the Storm worm that targets people interested in the 12 May earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people and left five million homeless. A US-based IT security watchdog on Thursday issued a clear...
[June 20, 2008, 8:03]
