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  • Sophos announces plans to float

    Listing on London Stock Exchange expected soon. The long-anticipated floatation of Sophos , one of the biggest privately owned security firms, has been announced this week, with the firm planning to list on the London Stock Exchange. The company, which was set up in 1985 and released its first virus scanner in 1989, is currently…

  • Symantec joins data leak frenzy

    Vontu purchase latest move in data protection trend. Symantec has announced the $350 million purchase of data leak prevention firm Vontu , following several similar moves by major security players in recent months. San Francisco-based Vontu claims 1 in 4 Fortune 100 companies as customers for its range of data protection solutions, which will be…

  • Symantec warns of rigged Google search links

    Advanced search options lead clickers straight to junk sites. Spammers have found a novel use for Google ‘s advanced search options and ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ function, using a combination of website setup and custom searches to create genuine Google search links which will lead directly to their sites. Spams have been spotted by researchers at…

  • Kaspersky teams up with Bit9

    Whitelisting knowledgebase to be used in future security products. A strategic partnership has been announced between Kaspersky Labs and application control specialist Bit9 . The deal will allow Kaspersky , best known for the excellent response times and detection rates in its anti-malware products, to integrate data from Bit9 ‘s sizeable database of file information,…

  • Attempted virus fumbles attack on F-Secure

    Flawed file-infector fails to frighten Finns. A highly buggy intended virus has been found to include an attempt to launch a DDoS attack on the websites of Finnish security firm F-Secure , alongside a suggestion that the firm’s head of labs Mikko Hyppönen needs a haircut. The flawed parasitic malware, which appears to have been…

  • Phishing trojan targets Mac OSX

    DNS hijack disguised as codec threatens Apple systems. A new trojan affecting Apple ‘s Mac OSX operating system – a relative rarity in the malware world – has been seen in the wild. The trojan, thought to belong to the highly prevalent Zlob (aka Puper) family, is being served by numerous fake codec sites, linked…

  • Supermarket sweep

    Phishers almost get away with $10m scam. Court documents have revealed that phishers nearly managed a whopping $10 million supermarket (bank account) sweep earlier this year. Supervalu Inc. , one of the largest grocery retail chains in the US, fell for a simple scam in which scammers sent the company emails purporting to be from…

  • E-crime unit to get government funding?

    UK government responds to House of Lords call for better policing of the Internet. The UK government has indicated that it may set up a new national police unit dedicated to tackling computer crime. The hint comes as part of the government’s response to a report issued earlier this year by the Science and Technology…

  • Melissa has users CAPTCHA’d

    Spammers offer strip show for correctly completed CAPTCHAs. Spammers have spotted a new opportunity for getting humans to help them get past the CAPTCHA tests put in place to prevent illegal use of webmail accounts: promise users a series of photographs of an increasingly scantily clad woman for every CAPTCHA they complete. The user is…

  • VB100 NetWare update

    Updated results for VB100 NetWare comparative. VB regrets that some erroneous results were recorded for Symantec AntiVirus 10 in last month’s comparative review on Novell NetWare 6.5 . The product was stated to have missed five samples from the polymorphic set – however it has since been discovered that, as a result of file-copying errors,…

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