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Most common cyber security myths unveiled as part of Cyber Security Month. Secure Computing has revealed the ‘top ten cyber security urban legends’ as part of Cyber Security Month in the US. The list was compiled using data from the company’s support calls, customer requests, and from monitoring Internet discussion groups. The top ten reads…

US government begins crack down on spyware. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a law suit in New Hampshire against an alleged spyware operation. The FTC filed the complaint in federal court against Sanford Wallace and two of his companies – Seismic Entertainment Products and SmartBot.Net. It seeks an injunction to shut down…

Take a look at the VB2004 conference photos The VB2004 conference photos are now online and available for viewing. If you would like to contribute a selection of your VB2004 photos please send them to us at [email protected] stating your full name. Posted on 07 October 2004 by Virus Bulletin

With over 330 delegates and a collection of interesting and informative speakers, VB2004 was a great success. This year’s VB conference, held in the beautiful city of Chicago, was another great success. Virus Bulletin would like to thank all those who attended the conference as well as all the speakers and crew members who helped…

Companies collaborate to provide anti-spam services. Email security firm MessageLabs and security company Symantec have announced that they will combine their anti-spam technologies to provide enhanced anti-spam services. MessageLabs will integrate Symantec’s Brightmail Anti-Spam technology (which the security company acquired only a matter of months ago) with its own Skeptic predictive anti-spam technology to provide…

Symantec announces new service to help stop phishing scams Anti-virus and anti-spam vendor Symantec has announced a new service to help identify and block phishing scams. The Online Fraud Management Solution, which is aimed primarily at financial services companies, will use probes and decoy email accounts to collect, analyse and identify new phishing scams. When…

The Internet Engineering Task Force has rejected Microsoft’s preferred anti-spam specification. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has rejected Microsoft’s preferred anti-spam specification, Sender ID, due to a possible intellectual property rights conflict. Members of the IETF’s working group MARID (MTA Authorization Records in DNS) reached a rough consensus last month that Microsoft’s Sender ID…

The Council of Europe’s 2001 Cybercrime Convention has been signed by 30 countries, but is only law in eight of these. The message at a conference organized by the Council of Europe last month was that governments must do more to deal with Internet criminals. The Council of Europe’s 2001 Cybercrime Convention, which aims to…

VB regrets that an error slipped through the editorial net in the August 2004 Netware comparative review. VB regrets that an error slipped through the editorial net in the August 2004 NetWare comparative review (see VB, August 2004, p.14). Despite appearances both in the table for on-demand scanning results and in the results listed in…

87.9% Thats the number of malware infected computer users in China, according to their Minister of Public Security. According to China’s Ministry of Public Security, 87.9 per cent of computer users in China are affected by malware. The Ministry revealed the figure as part of the findings of its first national survey on Internet information…