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  • Barracuda battles Trend Micro patent claims

    Trend demands licensing for gateway virus scanning idea. Barracuda Networks has announced it is fighting a legal battle against Trend Micro , who has claimed US patent rights to the concept of scanning traffic passing through network proxies for malware. A licensing issue has been running between the two firms since late 2006, when Trend…

  • Ledger poisons Google

    Actor’s death exploited by malware writers to infect computers. The death of actor Heath Ledger on Tuesday had barely been confirmed a few hours when malicious websites started using his name to boost their rankings in Google searches. Web users who searched for ‘heath’ and ‘ledger’ in Google would have found these malicious sites high…

  • Polyglot worm spreads through MSN

    Worm changes language to target wide audience. A new worm has been discovered that spreads through MSN Messenger . Once active, the worm opens random TCP ports to connect to an IRC server and then uses this connection to open a backdoor on the affected machine, allowing an attacker to issue commands locally. The worm,…

  • Trend Micro invests in leak-prevention firm

    Further data security added to portfolio. Security giant Trend Micro has acquired California-based data leak prevention specialist Provilla , to add its data protection technologies to the Trend range. Provilla ‘s software range, including its LeakProof and LeakSense leak prevention and monitoring tools, will continue to be sold and supported for the foreseeable future, and…

  • 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…

  • ZOO archive issues hit security vendors

    Errors handling rare format patched by four AV and anti-spam products. A researcher has revealed details of flawed implementation of a somewhat archaic archive format, .zoo, which has required patching in several anti-virus products and a popular anti-spam appliance, and also affects some archiving software. Products from Avira , Alwil and Panda were all patched…