(News) Dept of Homeland Security Crowdsources Cybersecurity
(News) Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano engaged the information security community at the 2010 RSA Security Conference and encourage security experts to submit ideas to increase public awareness of security issues.
(News) Microsoft was granted a temporary restraining order to shut down nearly 300 domains believed to comprise the command and control structure of the Waledac botnet.
(How To) Enterprise Security Tips on a Small-Business Budget
(News) Get Tough With Your Users to Protect Your Network
(News) The Kneber botnet is a relatively small threat as botnets go, based on the old Zeus Trojan, and could be guarded against using simple, common sense security fundamentals.
(News) Netgear Announces ProSecure UTM For 5-User SMB Networks
(News) Netgear's new security appliance takes on small-to-midsize business stalwarts such as Fortinet and Barracuda by including antispam, antimalware, and Web content...
(News) Users are the first line of defense, and might have stopped the attack. Technology could have done more, if companies had it.
(News) The two companies have gotten way too much publicity for doing something that, in the scheme of things, isn't all that significant.
(News) McAfee released its "2010 Threat Predictions" report, which predicts that Adobe will surpass Microsoft as the target of choice for malware attacks in 2010.
(News) Adobe has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Follow this advice to protect yourself from becoming a victim.
(News) Spam costs every American--every one of us--over $13-a-year each, $42 billion in all, and that's just what business pays. And that doesn't include the criminals' take.
(How To) How To De-Worm Your iPhone
(News) Mac Trojan May be a Hoax
(News) The study found that for all Microsoft operating systems that the most current service pack is always the least infected and Vista was infected less-often than XP.
(News) Microsoft: Worms Are Most Prevalent Security Problem
(News) Nasty Halloween Trick: Fake Antivirus Sites
(News) Spam Strangles YouTube
(News) Fake Antivirus Attacks, Demands Ransom
(News) Phishing Bust Spotlights Online Dangers
(News) Operation Phish Phry Nets 100 Suspects
(News) Hotmail Accounts Breached by Suspected Phishing Attack
(News) Microsoft Covers the Basics With Security Essentials
(News) Despite Taunts from Rivals, Microsoft Security Essentials is Solid
(News) Fraudulent Twitter IDs Spread Spam
(News) Can You Catch Spam from Chat Rooms?
(News) Major organizations take at least twice as long to patch client-side vulnerabilities as to patch operating systems. The highest priority risk is getting less attention than the lower priority risk.
(News) NYTimes.com Warns of Malware on Site
(News) Feel Less Hassled? Phishing Drop Reported
(News) Race is On to Patch Critical Windows Flaw
(News) Symantec Calculates Your Identity's Black-Market Value
(News) Declare War on SQL Injection Attacks
(News) Where in the World do Viruses Come From?
(News) Twitter Slow to Plug Hole, Researcher Charges
(News) Ongoing Botnet Attacks Identified as Team Projects
(News) FBI Investigating Laptops Sent to US Governors
(News) Macintosh will become a more frequent malware target. It is wise for Apple to deal with the challenge itself
(News) Can Google be Tricked into Talking to Botnets?
(News) Symantec Tells the Web's 100 Dirtiest Sites
(News) Internet Security Threats: Swift and Short-Lived
(News) Twitter Targeted by Familiar Worm
(News) Twitter Used to Manage Botnet, Says Security Expert
(News) Malware is Evading Detection, Researchers Say
(News) Vegas ATM Malware Demonstrates Banking Security Woes
(News) Malware Expected to Set Records This Year
(News) Social Network Phishing Attacks Businesses
(News) Trojans Cause 75% of New Malware
(News) Beware Jackson Scammers and Other Scum
(News) Online Scams Jump as More Africans Go Online
(News) Can Free Microsoft Security Essentials AV Software Fight Off Entrenched Interests?
(How To) Better Business Endpoint Security Solutions
(News) Security Experts Visualize Botnets With an Eye Toward Defense
(News) Security Essentials Does Its Job With No Frills
(News) OPINION: Pigs Fly! Microsoft Leads in Security
(News) Twitter Spam Spreads Worm
(News) Microsoft's Free Anti-Virus: Is This An Apology?
(News) 4 Tips to Fight Botnets
(News) Kaspersky: A Profile of the Virus-Fighter
(News) I Surf Unprotected
(News) Twitter Gets Targeted Again by Worm-like Phishing Attack
(News) Latest Facebook Phishers are Out for Profit
(News) Image Spam Makes a Comeback
(News) Spam Volumes Drop, McAfee Says
(News) Scam tries to steal passwords by getting Facebook users to enter their log-in credentials at a fraudulent site.
(News) Beware Swine Flu Spam
(News) Antivirus protection moves off individual PCs and into a network cluster for cheaper, better protection.
(News) Panda Unveils Free Security Service
(News) Conficker Variant Expected to Self-Destruct Soon
(News) News of Mac Botnets Doesn't Mean an Increased Threat (Yet)
(News) Conficker Hype a 'Problem,' Says FBI Cyber-Chief
(News) Paradise Lost: Malware Targets Macs
(News) Antivirus Vendor Turns to Hardware Protection
(News) Spyware Jumps in 2009
(News) Malware Had a Great Year in 2008
(News) Mac Exploit Enters System Through VMWare
(News) Twitter Worm-Writer Gets a Gig
(News) Is Spam Really Threatening Planet Earth? I Don't Believe It
(How To) Security Software: Protection or Extortion?
(News) Smarts, Not Big Bucks, Helps Stave off Malware
(News) Conficker-Infected Systems Spew Spam
(News) Microsoft: Rogue 'Security' Software a Rising Threat
(News) Three Spammers Sentenced in US for Advance Fee Fraud
(News) Conficker Worm's Creators Foiled
(News) Conficker's Zero Hour Arrives Without Event -- Yet
(News) Conficker Worm Is Much Ado About Nothing
(News) A Message For Your IT Director About the Conficker Worm
(News) Conficker to Phone Home on April Fools' Day
(News) Beware New Malware in Web Apps
(News) Online Fraud Hits Airlines Hard
(News) A Search Is Launched for Conficker's First Victim
(News) New Site Defines Best Practices For Software Security
(News) Security firms are sounding the alarm about spam messages purporting to report a bomb explosion in order to get victims to...
(News) Security company Sophos has lashed out at the BBC for commandeering some 22,000 computers earlier this month, claiming the...
(News) New 'Spam King' Linked to SMS Campaign
(News) New Conficker Expected April 1
(News) Microsoft Tries to Squash Koobface
(News) Device Fingerprinting Aims To Stop Online Fraud
(News) Computers infected with the Conficker worm are being updated with a new variant that sidesteps an industry effort to sever the...
(News) Security researchers Monday warned of several vulnerabilities in Foxit, a free PDF document viewer that many have recommended...
(News) FTC Warns of Bogus Economic Stimulus Sites
(News) Start-up Damballa Monday unveiled the third version of its Failsafe botnet detection appliance, while also badmouthing...
(News) Spam Spiked, then Slowed in February
(News) Spammers Play on Economic Fears
(News) A hacking contest slated for next month will award cash prizes of $10,000 to anyone who can break into the most popular...
(How To) Fight Malware on the Smartphone
(News) Symantec discovered a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader that can be exploited by specially targeted Trojans.
(News) Mobile Phone Viruses on the Upswing
(News) Scam Antivirus App Spreads Malware
(How To) The Ultimate Browser Security Test
(How To) Monitor Botnet Threats Your Antivirus Can't See
(News) Does Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Need Fixing?
(News) There have been big computer worm outbreaks before, but nothing quite like Conficker.
(News) Task force is attempting to stop worm that is infecting nearly 2.2 million machines each day.
(News) Spending a little time on Facebook and other social networking sites is a ritual for many of us every morning. And afternoon...
(News) MessageLabs reports that global Internet spam levels increased 4.9 percent in January.
(News) The economic stimulus package hasn't even gotten out of Congress, but identity thieves aren't waiting.
(News) More than 4,000 web users every day are being infected by the Pinch Trojan, even though its creators are now behind bars, says...
(News) Hackers are targetting web users booking holidays online in a bid to distribute malware, says McAfee.
(News) The infection of 4,700 PCs by a worm at three London hospitals in mid-November was "entirely avoidable," according to an independent security review.
(News) A new botnet is resurrecting Storm's Valentine's Day ruse and may originate from the same malware authors, security firms warn.
(News) Share malware the new, old-fashioned way!
(News) Mac fanboys and Windows stalwarts alike are suffering the effects of a New Year's malware hangover.
(News) Spammers have regrouped and are finding ways to send more junk mail despite recent efforts by security experts.
(News) Security software firm Intego reports that pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop CS4 may contain a variant of the "Trojan horse"...
(News) Phishing schemes and Trojans are showing up in greater numbers on social networking sites, security researchers say.
(News) Researchers say there's a second act looming for the prolific Downadup/Conficker Worm.
(News) Pirated copies of Apple's iWork 09 software include a most unpleasant surprise.
(News) Sophos study confirms that, beyond being a major annoyance, spam is even more malicious than ever.
(News) I have two topics this week. First, it appears my malware saga has come to a satisfactory solution. As I discussed two weeks...
(News) The Downadup (aka Conficker) computer worm toll grows -- it has now infected at least 1 out of every 16 PCs worldwide.
(News) How to protect your PC from the biggest worm in years.
(News) The Conficker/Downadup worm is slithering across the Web at an "amazing" pace, say F-Secure researchers.
(News) Shutting down a spam-friendly ISP banished the Storm and Srzibi botnets, but new threats quickly emerged
(News) Finnish security firm says Downadup (aka Conficker) worm has done most of its damage in the past four days.
(News) And open-source exploit code made hacker's job easier.
(News) The computer worm that exploits a months-old Windows bug has infected more than a million PCs in the past 24 hours, a security...
(News) Security vendor Trusteer says its found a way to do phishing without the e-mail, thanks to a bug in all major browsers.
(News) Paris Hilton's Web site has been hacked and is serving up malware.
(News) A Zlob Trojan writer has left messages for Microsoft in his malicious code.
(News) Twitter Inc. has launched a comprehensive review of the defenses in its popular social network and microblogging service after...
(News) Just days after popular social networking tool Twitter was hit was a phishing scam, the company is now trying to clean up a...
(News) Google hasn't stopped a rising number of spammers from abusing Google Docs, its Web-based collaboration and spreadsheet...
(News) Browser plug-ins can also store individually-identifying data, and your normal privacy settings may have no effect.
(News) Microsoft dismissed reports of a critical vulnerability in its Windows Media Player, saying that the researcher who claims the bug could be exploited is wrong.
(News) In the second month of a campaign against fake security software, Microsoft says it has booted the rogue application "Antivirus 2009" off 400,000 PCs.
(News) Samsung bundles viruses in certain CDs that shipped with its digital picture frames.
(News) Last year's Storm tactic resurfaces in attacks from China, say researchers.
(News) Researchers are sounding an alarm about an apparent bug in a free antivirus scanning service.
(News) Security Firm Calls for Organization to Patrol Internet
(News) A review of 2008 by security firm Sophos finds American websites host more malware and spew more spam.
(News) Zero-day malware is on the rise, with hackers pouncing on flaws the day they're discovered.
(News) How Wai John Hui was the CEO of a company whose stock was inflated as a result of an online scam.
(News) The scammers began to see serious problems with their phishing scams sometime around April.
(News) OK, about now my editor is going to be wondering where on earth this column is. It should have been in his hot, sweaty hands...
(News) We recently got the opportunity to interview Eugene Kaspersky, the man behind Kaspersky Anti Virus. Here's what he had to say...
(News) Kaspersky weighs in on the evolution of malware, the future of cybersecurity, the problems with the Internet, and more.
(News) The online underground economy is booming, and the cybercrooks can't do it without you, Symantec warns.
(News) The popularity of Web 2.0 applications, mobile storage, remote access and other advances present new tech threats, security experts advise.
(News) The virus that plagued Facebook earlier this month has moved on to other social networking sites, a security firm says.
(News) The number of sites hosting malware has increased threefold in the past year, according to Sophos.
(News) Economic woes are driving creative cybercriminals to pursue more online scams, security firm reports.
(News) A warning to those who love such social media sites as Facebook: The bad guys are coming for you.
(News) Watch out for electronics stores that accept only wire transfers for payment.
(News) According to CyberSource's tenth annual Online Fraud Report, online retailers expect to lose a record four billion dollars to...
(News) Computer users are their own worst enemies, a security company warned Monday as it released data that showed software bugs...
(News) Security firm F-Secure reports record growth in viruses, bots and malware online.
(News) Hackers are seeding Trojans through mail that purports to be an alert from an airline, a security firm warns.
(News) The FTC is posting educational voicemail messages on phone numbers formerly used by vishers.
(News) Whether it's a Mac or a PC, it takes more than anti-virus software to keep a computer safe.
(News) Security experts say a phishing campaign may have allowed criminals to gain control of CheckFree's Internet domain.
(News) More than 98% of Windows computers harbor at least one unpatched application, and nearly half contain 11 or more programs at...
(News) A nasty Trojan that first hit Mac users just over a year ago has returned with sharpened teeth, a security company has...
(News) The Julie Amero case has stirred up a lot of emotions, including some from readers who feel I was less than fair toward the expert witness hired by Amero's attorney, Herb Horner. You know what? They're right.
(News) Mac security company, Intego, warned on Wednesday of a new variant of the RSPlug Trojan Horse. The original RSPlug trojan was...
(News) The 19-year-old New Zealand bot-master known as Akill says he sees himself as 'maybe the next Bill Gates.'
(News) We are all notoriously snobbish when it comes to not installing anti-virus software, but largely because we all know that...
(News) With cyber Monday comes an FBI warning against spam containing malware and phishing attempts that appear to be greeting cards...
(News) Since I posted my screed last week about Julie Amero, the Connecticut middle school teacher who almost did hard time because a...
(News) Apple, which has long held the position its operating system is immune to security problems, is recommending that users...
(News) Volume and sophistication of online attacks are increasing, CA researchers say.
(News) Users of Google's Orkut social networking site are cautioned against answering a hoax message that is instead malware.
(News) Windows users are urged to apply a patch released last month to combat the resurgent Win32/Conficker.
(News) Spammers try to recover and relaunch their botnets after a frequent host is eliminated.
(News) Spam traffic is spiking again after a brief respite when its ISP was shuttered.
(News) Many anti-virus programs are near to useless in blocking the binaries used to spread botnets.
(News) An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the control servers for a botnet responsible for a large portion of the world's spam has cut off those servers.
(News) Security vendors say spammers are reconnecting with hacked PCs used for sending spam.
(News) The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and FBI teamed with New Zealand police to shut down a vast international spam network known as HerbalKing.
(News) Last week's patch purged false security software from millions of Windows PCs.
(News) The DoD was reportedly infiltrated by W32/SillyFCD-W, which spreads via thumb drives among machines.
(News) The holiday season and current economic crisis create the perfect storm for online hacking.
(News) Security software firms expect a spike in the spread of information-stealing malware just three days before Thanksgiving.
(News) The shutdown of an allegedly spam-friendly ISP is only a short-term fix and could encourage a new wave of pests, experts warn.
(News) Too many users neglect their antivirus updates and other cybersecurity measures, a British survey reports.
(News) PC Tools is reporting an increase in PDF-based malware, some of which can evade antivirus software.
(News) Spammers seize on financial and political news to lure you to opening their ads, Symantec reports.
(News) The shutdown of a hosting firm that served cybercrooks is giving spam a brief break as botnets relocate.
(News) A new threat that comes under the guise of a genuine antivirus program has become increasingly prevalent over the past year...
(News) Four years ago, F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen was talking about malware infections on mobile phones while few...
(News) Microsoft today called its first month of predicting whether hackers will create exploit code for its bugs a success -- even...
(News) Years of in-fighting over the DNSSEC standard have left Internet users unnecessarily exposed to malware.
(News) Scammers are trawling Facebook for victims using a convincing twist on the notorious 'Nigerian 419' scam.
(News) Spam sent by the Storm network could be generating up to $3.5 million yearly for pharmaceutical product providers.
(News) While the Windows platform has become much more resistant to malware attacks, Microsoft-based applications have now become the...
(News) The spread of CAPTCHA-breaking tools has resulted in a sudden surge in the use of blogging sites such as Google's Blogspot to...
(News) The pair of security updates scheduled for release next week are a fraction of the 11 issued in October.
(News) Hackers are leveraging the Obama presidential win to unleash a massive malware attack, security firm warns.
(News) The era of operating system vulnerability is slowly drawing to a close, with more than nine out of 10 published software...
(News) Kaspersky warns that as many as 10,000 Web sites have been compromised in a mass Web attack.
(News) A worm that exploits the bug Microsoft Corp. patched in an emergency update 11 days ago is actively attacking systems, several...
(News) Several ISPs and Internet companies will meet in San Francisco early next year to adopt a common strategy for combating...
(News) The amount of spam containing dangerous attachments designed to infect PCs with malicious viruses increased by eight times...
(News) SanDisk has stepped up its efforts to convince corporates that USB sticks are a secure medium, adding built-in antivirus...
(News) Spammers are subverting server filters to plant malware and send spam, security firm Cyberoam warns.
(News) Spam levels in Hong Kong experienced the largest increase by 13.2 percent, reaching 79.6 percent of all e-mails, according to...
(News) Paradigm Initiative Nigeria and Microsoft have partnered to educate the country's youth on cybercrime.
(News) Malware arrives in an e-mail that claims to be from an airline.
(News) Spammers prefer Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., over his rival, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., by landslide-like numbers, a security...
(News) Spammers crate bogus YouTube and Blogspot accounts to promote services and lure users to spam domains, security firm reports.
(News) Threats today go far beyond viruses, so a standalone solution won't make it, Trend Micro manager says.
(News) When the alleged creator of an infamous virus tried to negotiate, security firm Kaspersky Lab helped track him down.
(News) As more people become accustomed to Web surfing and downloading software and multimedia, legitimate Web sites have become the...
(News) Movie star Brad Pitt has shoved Paris Hilton off the top of a list neither will have coveted being on. A fan entering Pitt's...
(News) Apple iPhone users are the latest target of hackers trying to infect Windows PCs, according to security firm Sophos.
(News) UPDATE: A Virginia court overturns the state's antispam law and the conviction of a spammer.
(News) 7Search.com has become the latest outfit to legally contest its classification as spyware by a major anti-malware company.
(News) Spyware, viruses, and phishing cost consumers $7.1 billion in 2007, but a report says the U.S. fails to prosecute Internet fraud.
(News) Beware of the spam that is tricking users into clicking malicious links and downloading malware.
(News) Symantec warns that spammers are trying to take advantage of interest in the Olympic Games.
(News) A security researcher plans to demonstrate attack code that targets bugs in Intel's microprocessors.
(News) There's no fix yet available for the latest attack against Microsoft's browser.
(News) A Colorado man has been ordered to pay US$6 million in damages and legal fees for spamming thousands of MySpace.com users.
(News) Cisco has issued patches for several products including the SSH server software used by its routers.
(News) The FBI is warning about e-mail scammers trying to make money from last week's massive earthquake in China's Sichuan province...
(News) Watch out for spear phishing for subpoenas, scam calendar invites and other spam trends.
(News) A federal judge has ordered convicted spammer Eddie Davidson to just under two years in prison for sending out a large volume...
(News) Salesforce.com is warning customers that they may be the targets of malicious software or phishing scams, after one of its employees was tricked into divulging a corporate password.
(News) Google Patches Security Holes in Chrome Browser
