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Unsafe computing in abundance
Reports and statistics on unsafe computing practices. Last month saw a flurry of reports and statistics on unsafe computing practices. To kick off, almost a quarter of Internet-connected users in the UK believe they have suffered from a virus attack in the past year, according to figures released by the Office of National Statistics. In…
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Sony in more rootkit rows
Accusations of sneakiness and unsafe practices hit media giants again. Sony has been tangled up in two separate rootkit scares in the past few days, with a brief outcry over hidden software installed by a PC game swiftly followed by more serious allegations about techniques used by a supposedly secure USB key system. The game…
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FBI-led panel to provide insight into international fight against cybercrime
International law enforcement agencies set to join forces at VB2007 in Vienna. International law enforcement agencies are set to join forces at the VB2007 anti-malware conference in Vienna next month to provide an insight into the work of the world’s police forces in the fight against organized online crime. The worldwide cooperation between international law…
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Four charged with writing Fujacks
Malware authors and sellers appear in Chinese court. Four men have appeared in a public court in Hubei Province, China, charged with writing, selling and spreading the W32/Fujacks virus and worm, often referred to as the ‘Panda burning joss-sticks’ virus in reference to the icon marking infected files in some variants. The W32/Fujacks family of…
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String of vulnerabilities found in ServerProtect
Several minor holes patched in Trend Micro corporate product. A series of security issues have been reported in Trend Micro ‘s ServerProtect server-level product, which could allow system compromise from within the local network but are not thought to expose servers to remote attack. Seven separate vulnerabilities, mostly boundary errors which could possibly be exploited…
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Monster haul of data reaped from job site
Trojan gathers 1.6 million sets of jobseeker records. Researchers at Symantec have reported discovering a server carrying 1.6 million entries from the popular jobseeking website Monster.com , gathered by a trojan using stolen login information. The trojan, dubbed ‘Infostealer.Monstres’ by Symantec , uses logins to Monster ‘s sites for recruiters, which allow information on millions…
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AVK tops latest AV-Test charts
Top four beat 99% in large collection scan. Testers at AV-Test.org have run 29 products over a massive collection of malware samples, with detection rates measured against 874,822 items including worms, trojans, bots and backdoors. The top two were multi-engine products, with GDATA ‘s AntiVirusKit ranked number one with 99.88% detection, and the Webwasher gateway…
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