Learn Virus Writing Skills In Canada
Talkback There is really nothing I've ever wanted to do more than writing viruses and computer programs, although I've never had the opportunity to try before. As I do not live in Canada, there is a bit of a problem regarding this course.
[April 18, 2005, 11:51]
Learn Virus Writing Skills In Canada
News While many students would be expelled from their computer science programs for writing a virus, the University of Calgary plans to make writing such malicious programs a part of the curriculum. For his part, Trend Micro's Perry said there is little...
[May 28, 2003, 13:50]
Who Writes Viruses?
News And the latest (as of this writing) virus writer caught seems to reflect that stereotype. David Smith: Received 20 months in prison and paid $5,000 in fines for the Melissa virus. Jan De Wit: Received 150 hours of community service for authoring...
[September 25, 2003, 13:30]
Hacker Targets Sophos Mouthpiece
News A row has once again broken out between two of the virus world's best known characters -- Sophos senior technology consultant and mouthpiece Graham Cluley, and Gigabyte, a female Belgian hacker. The twist is that they score the most points for...
[July 17, 2003, 13:05]
Virus Writers Need A New Order
Leader It's time for the virus writing community to listen to Microsoft, and do a proper TCO, time to market and deployment cost analysis. It is with some trepidation that we report on the rise of the open-source virus.
[November 26, 2004, 12:30]
Security Tightened After 'Needlepoint' Virus
News Of course, my office was the one with the best firewall, security procedures, and virus software. You probably haven't, because it isn't the typical virus you're accustomed to hearing about in alerts or on your favorite news portal.
[November 15, 2002, 19:31]
Outrage At Symantec's OS X Claims
Talkback It's amazing that patches are released within hours of the virus or worm "being supplied" in the wild. There has been linkage (in the security industry) for some time, between those who are writing various types of exploits and the companies (which...
[March 22, 2005, 23:20]
Experts React To 'Chinese Linux Virus'
News Several commentators pointed out that people's personal data is of course typically harder to replace than software, so a Linux virus may still be a significant threat. The debate over whether a virus could infect and seriously affect Linux has...
[January 28, 2000, 9:50]
Windows XP SP2 More Secure? Not So Fast review
Reviews And, of course, pre-XP Windows operating systems still have a sizable share of the PC market and have numerous vulnerabilities that SP2 won't fix -- all targets for virus writers and script kiddies. In the meantime, I expect to see about the same...
[August 17, 2004, 13:55]
DoS Worm Invades Microsoft Servers
News This is one of the trends that we are going to see more and more of: the crossover between the hacking and virus writing, and moving away from email-borne worms," said Vincent Weafer, director of software maker Symantec's antivirus research centre.
[June 11, 2001, 8:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He's decided that there is a Great Danger for All Mankind in SETI@Home, because those signals we're all decoding might contains some evil virus that will trash the world's networks. Second, how on earth are you going to look for an alien virus...
[November 25, 2005, 17:20]
Russia's Cybercrime-fighting Bond Villain
News There was a guy back in 1994 who was arrested for virus writing. He began studying computer viruses in 1989, when he discovered the Cascade virus on his own computer. So if you look at arrests on virus writers and hackers, they're everywhere.
[January 10, 2005, 16:05]
Playing Silly Buffers: How Bad Programming Lets Viruses In
News A crafty virus writer can force that address to correspond to their own, malicious code - and they've won. A virus writer uses all the above information. The processor can read and write it as usual so a buffer overflow can happen, but if the...
[January 15, 2004, 16:40]
Why Ballmer Just Doesn't Get It
Talkback They do not care that customers are lumbered with virus infested software that would (if it were a visible entity) look like a patchwork quilt. Of course they won't do this. Which is why the combined effects of Open Source and the new Open Source...
[October 15, 2003, 16:12]
Microsoft Shifts Security Strategy
News However, recent worm and virus attacks have repeatedly shown that many customers remain vulnerable long after patches have been released, he said. We know bad guys keep writing viruses. Microsoft executives have recently hinted that a change of...
[October 2, 2003, 9:00]
