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Trojan MS-DRT Virus, latest on the Malware list

Gaurav Sood — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:29:10 +0000

A new virus called MS-DRT has emerged which has a very wide variety of attack modes. One of the seven major types of Trojan viruses, MS-DRT 2.0 is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT), which gives complete control of the victim’s computer to the...

Jessica Biel may be hazardous to your computer

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Women, Celebrity According to McAfee, fans searching the Web for info on Jessica Biel have a one-in-five chance of ending up on a site containing malware. This makes the shapely star 2009’s most dangerous celeb on the Internet,...

W32/Induct-A Virus : Infects software even before you buy it!

Gaurav Sood — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:06:46 +0000

Image Credit The alarm bells are ringing loud for software developers using Delphi Programming language for developing database application softwares. A new virus ‘W32/Induct-A’ has been detected by Sophos(Security Software vendor...

Is Twitter being used to control botnets?

Andy Merrett — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:46:59 +0000

A leading security company claims that Twitter is being exploited by those who own and control botnets — clusters of computers taken over without owner knowledge and often used to launch denial of service attacks. Arbor Networks suggests that...

Twitter filters malicious URLs including shortened ones

Andy Merrett — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:31 +0000

Internet security company F-Secure has announced the discovery that Twitter is now following its advice to filter all posted URLs, including shortened ones, for malicious content. Their screenshot, copied below, shows what happens if you try to...

Beware Fake Retweets

Chris Garrett — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:44:33 +0000

Personalities on Twitter are being hijacked to spread spam, scams and malware – look out! The problem with retweets on Twitter is that it is simply a free-text copy and paste thing. Even when you use a desktop tool such as TweetDeck, all it...

Social Media Sites Risk Growing Threats and Attacks

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:44:29 +0000

According to Investor’s Business Daily, evil is sweeping social networks, moving beyond email and blogs to where you like to virtually hang out and congregate: Security experts last week warned that a new strain of the Koobface virus is...

$250,000 Bounty For Downadup/Conficker Virus Creator

Dora ForeverGeek — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:37:20 +0000

Who wants $250,000? I sure do! Off the top of my head, I can name more things than I can count that I can do with that much money. This amount - £172,000 – is actually well within your reach IF you know the person behind the Conficker...

Downadup Worm Infection: Cyber Attacks on the Rise in 2009

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:53:00 +0000

SecurityFocus reports an estimated 3.5 million computers have been compromised due to a “Downadup worm,” a malicious bot that spreads through websites and blogs. The Downadup worm, a malicious program that spreads using a recently...

Privacyware's Privatefirewall 5.0, protects Widows desktops and servers

Ritu — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:01:24 +0000

Privacware, Corp. has launched an integrated desktop firewall and multilayer intrusion prevention software, Privatefirewall 5.0, which delivers signature less, zero hour protection from know or new spyware, viruses, hacking techniques and...