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NOTW Phone Hacking Inquiry Interrupted by Virus

During the Leverson Inquiry at the High Court of London, David Sherborne, the representative of the victims whose phones were hacked using the now infamous NOTW hacking phone, asked for a time-out after noticing that a trojan was detected on his computer. Graham Cluley reveals there is no clear indication whether th...

15 November 2011
05:08 GMT

Yet Another Mac Trojan Discovered: 'Flashback'

A security alert from Intego reveals that Mac users are being targeted by newly found malware that poses as a Flash Player installer package.The news comes just days after the discovery of a new Mac Trojan, and around the same time Softpedia posted a short interview with Sophos’ senior technology consultant, Gr...

27 September 2011
08:47 GMT

The Cure for HIV Could Be HIV Itself

HIV is a deadly, incurable virus, that infects tens of millions of people, and no scientific modern approach has been effective so far, so a group of researchers at Yale University, US, led by Craig Crews, thought that an ancient method might do the trick.Everyone knows the story of the Trojan horse, whether it is fr...

7 January 2011
09:11 GMT

Fake Obama Inauguration Websites Spread Trojan Horse

January 20, 2009 marks the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the U.S., a day preceded by heavy logistic preparations, on multiple fronts, associated with the ceremony. The event has generated a consistent amount of publicity worldwide, and, in the process, attracted the attention of malware author...

20 January 2009
06:30 GMT

New Mac Trojan Contains Reference to Intego

A new Mac Trojan Horse has been discovered, attempting to disguise itself by naming a file “intego” - a reference to the well-known security company responsible for VirusBarrier X5 for Mac. Although carrying a medium-level risk for Mac users, OSX.RSPlug.E trojan horse is the fifth version of the malware ...

4 December 2008
05:53 GMT

ARD Patcher Fixes Apple Remote Desktop Exploit

Over the past few weeks reports talking about this vulnerability connected to Apple's Remote Desktop Agent in Mac OS X have been literally pouring in. Multiple security firms say the vulnerability allows shell scripts to be run as root - for which they are offering solutions, and costly ones at that. However, de...

7 July 2008
04:53 GMT

Confirmed: Reported Mac OS X Trojan Is a Poker Game

Towards the end of last week the Mac-based web was "infected" with news of a Mac Trojan that will allegedly let hackers run code "as root" on other folks' machines. As usual, users would have to download and install an app - which has been confirmed as OSX.Trojan.PokerStealer, according to TUAW - in order to let...

23 June 2008
04:37 GMT

It's Official: Mac Trojan on the Loose

Well, it seems the guys behind iAntiVirus and VirusBarrier X5 knew what they were talking about. Makers of Mac anti-spyware and anti-virus solutions, SecureMac, have discovered what is reported as a new Mac OS X Trojan horse. Dubbed "Applescript.THT Trojan," the malware is thought to have originated via a "hacker" we...

20 June 2008
17:51 GMT

The Way You Should Fight against Instant Messaging Threats

Yesterday, security company Kaspersky Lab published an interesting analysis concerning the main threats distributed through instant messaging clients, poiting that spam and malware files are pretty popular on this applications. However, in case you're one of the millions of users who communicate on the Inter usi...

28 May 2008
06:12 GMT

Virus Found in Firefox 2 Plug-in

The language pack supposed to be installed in Firefox 2 by consumers who want to use the Mozilla browser in Vietnamese got compromised by a Trojan horse, Window Snyder, the Mozilla security chief warned yesterday. What's worse is that the plugin was posted straight on the Mozilla Add-on page from where users dow...

8 May 2008
03:03 GMT

MP3 Files Aren't Safe

Lots of users have already realized, over the past years, how skillful and dangerous a hacker can prove to be. It seems that almost anything you do on the web can infect your personal computer. Yesterday, security vendor McAfee has reported that a large number of fake MP3 files are spread on peer-to-peer networks. Th...

7 May 2008
05:59 GMT


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