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A new generation of Panda
Panda sells majority shareholding. Spanish security vendor Panda Software has announced the sale of 75% of its shareholding to southern European investment group Investindustrial and private equity firm Gala Capital . Existing shareholders Berta Frías, Jose Maria Hernandez and Mikel Urizarbarrena retain the remaining 25% of the company and will continue to act as members…
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Websense snaps up SurfControl
$400m for British web-filtering company. US firm Websense has sealed a $400m cash deal to acquire British web-filtering company SurfControl . The 700-pence-per-share price paid by Websense – 63% more than SurfControl ‘s share price at the time of announcing it was looking for a buyer – has prompted speculation that Websense may not have…
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Email this!
VB stops spammer in his tracks. A stark reminder of the ingenuity of spammers was received by VB ‘s web team last month thanks to a brief incident involving the VB web server. Suspicions of nefarious activity were first aroused when a significantly large number of emails began to overwhelm the email server. On inspection,…
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Erratum: VB100 Linux comparative
Dr.Web results corrected. Upon closer analysis of the latest set of VB100 test results (see VB, April 2007, p.11 ) VB has regrettably discovered some errors in the detection figures published for the Dr.Web product. A re-run of the tests demonstrated that the product was, in fact, capable of detecting all samples in the macro,…
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Massive lawsuit brought against spam harvesters
Harvesting detection project aims to prosecute address abusers. A community project dedicated to gathering information on the collection of email addresses for spamming purposes has brought a lawsuit in a Virginia court against the as-yet-unidentified spammers who fell into their traps. The Project Honey Pot system was set up by Utah-based anti-spam firm Unspam Technologies…
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Theft spam, fraud and web threats may rival ad spam
Spring threat reports show rise in spying, zombies, spear-phishing and cracked websites. A series of reports released in recent weeks, surveying the latest developments in spam and online threats, have shown a rise in data theft and other serious online crimes, alongside a thriving spamming industry reaping money from advertising of suspect merchandise and stock…
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Experts predict no let-up in malcode development
Kaspersky and Russinovich warn of growth in Vista, non-Windows malware. Security experts have been making predictions for the future of malware and anti-malware developments, with some strongly worded warnings about the vulnerability of Windows Vista , as well as other platforms yet to be greatly affected by such threats. Windows internals expert Mark Russinovich, speaking…
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Governments making moves to combat cybercrime
Laws and agencies beginning to target online fraud and ID theft. With profits from fraud using privileged personal data stolen via phishing or spyware rocketing and making the development of malware an ever more lucrative business, governments worldwide are beginning to take more concerted action to combat the problem. In the US, the ‘SPY ACT’…
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Latest VB100 comparative announced
Windows XP products to be tested for June issue. VB has announced the next round of VB100% comparative testing, to be run on the Microsoft Windows XP platform. Submissions of products for testing must be received by VB by the deadline, which has been set for Monday, April 30th. Testing will take place throughout May,…
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McAfee VirusScan vulnerability found, patched
Multibyte character overflow issue breaches on-access defences. A vulnerability has been reported in the on-access component of McAfee ‘s flagship VirusScan product, which could be used to disable on-access protection and potentially to execute malicious code on a vulnerable system. The flaw involves a buffer overflow while processing files with exceptionally long filenames which include…
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