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Shock rocker Marilyn Manson has never had a loving, understanding or even tolerating relationship with the media. Except for specialized publications that gave him credit for his music, tabloids and glossy magazines always made a habit either of mocking him or of deliberately thrashing him. Precisely because of this,... |
29 July 2009
10:55 GMT |
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PC Tools has released iAntivirus 1.35, the latest version of its antivirus software for Mac. Debates whether or not Macs need antivirus solutions belong in the comments. For now, existing users are advised to update. Newcomers should read the full piece to learn more about iAntiVirus for Mac.According to the release ... |
10 March 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Akamai Technologies has released a report regarding “the state of the Internet” for the second quarter of 2008, and it lists Japan as being the primary source of attack traffic, followed by US and China. According to the report, in the second quarter of 2008, Japan accounted for 30% of the total global at... |
10 September 2008
11:19 GMT |
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The FBI has decided to take more measures to fend off the wave of spam attacks in which the sender pretends to be a hitman hired to kill the recipient of the email, or a loved one. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a branch of the federal authority, has released an official note, advising people not to liste... |
29 August 2008
06:01 GMT |
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The Internal Threats Encyclopedia was launched by the Israeli security company Promisec. According to the company, most of the threats which can put a network at risk are actually internal rather than external. The encyclopedia is an effort to list and rate the applications that can pose a threat to a corporate netwo... |
21 August 2008
10:43 GMT |
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The brain's ability to make fast decisions in threatening situations may sometimes literally make the difference between life and death. In our more primitive past this would have translated into fast decisions destined to help us escape from the claws of a predator; the situation is analogue even today, even if... |
9 July 2008
06:31 GMT |
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Security company ESET, the creator of the well-known NOD32 antivirus, published the "Global Threat Trend - March 2008" report, underlining, once again, that our USB sticks are in danger due to the popularity of INF/Autorun. Thus, no less than 10.3 percent of the total number of threats discovered in March 2008 was re... |
11 April 2008
17:31 GMT |
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The Taleban (also known as Taliban), the nationalist Afghanistan movement, threatened today to attack mobile networks and mobile companies offices across the country, unless the carriers agree to switch off their signals during night-time. Taleban militants say that foreign troops, including the US one, are us... |
25 February 2008
10:21 GMT |
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Apple is riding a success wave fueled by the market performance of the Mac computers. And while the Cupertino-based hardware company was pushing in excess of 2.15 million Macs per month back in the third quarter of 2007, ahead of the advent of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, its proprietary operating system also grows its own... |
16 January 2008
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A few days ago, the first iPhone threat spotted in the wild made the tour of the virtual world, as security companies warned the owners of the Apple device that a fake firmware update might be more dangerous than they had expected. But before getting into today's piece of news, let's do some recap. As you m... |
10 January 2008
05:32 GMT |
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The iPhone, that extremely popular gadget built by the Cupertino company Apple, is one of the latest devices threatened by some malicious packages, as Orla Cox of Symantec today warned. What's interesting is that this threat, if we can name it so, is not as dangerous as it may sound, because the only thing it do... |
8 January 2008
03:31 GMT |
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The VoIP technologies are pretty popular among the Internet users, but the number of small and large companies adopting such a tool is quickly growing up. However, it has been proved several times that these solutions are not always 100 percent secure, so an improved security system would be welcomed. Shocking or not... |
12 December 2007
14:11 GMT |
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It's been a while since we last saw such a powerful worm, although its overall risk rating was set to low. Security company Trend Micro wrote in the WORM_VB.GOZ security advisory that this new threat affected the majority of Windows versions including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003. But as the title says,... |
11 December 2007
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2008 may be a busy year when it comes to computer threats, as the attackers prepare an avalanche of malicious attempts over our systems, Websense wrote in the "2008's Top Ten Security Threats" report published today. Although the security vendor presented all the top ten threats which may appear next year, I pr... |
6 December 2007
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As the computer infections and threats evolve day by day, the security companies struggle to design new technologies able to block them all... although we have to admit it's pretty difficult to do that. Security vendor McAfee today released the top 10 predictions for computer infections in the next year, expecti... |
19 November 2007
05:38 GMT |
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I must admit the Commtouch Malware Outbreak Center is a really amazing technology which is pretty useful if your computer is infected with some malicious code. Let me tell you some hot details about it. First of all, the product is meant to provide information about viruses, malware, Trojan horses and other dangerous... |
12 November 2007
10:10 GMT |
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A new survey commissioned by security vendor McAfee revealed that most employees are allowed to download music at work although there are numerous risks when it comes to files downloaded from the web. According to Reuters, the survey included no less than 1,000 computer managers who revealed that the employees of the... |
9 November 2007
09:55 GMT |
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The Turkish side of MSNBC was recently affected by a malicious code which could infect all the visitors' computers with password stealing utilities without any user action. Security company Websense reports that attackers could do this using an external JavaScript file which included dangerous content apparently... |
8 November 2007
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The coming Olympics in 2012 have aroused many passions and there were many talks around it. The one that made the news today is in no direct connection to it but rather to its location: Newham, where Europe's largest mosque is set to be built. Councilor Alan Craig is a member of the Christian Peoples Alliance an... |
6 November 2007
08:57 GMT |
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Here's a great offer for you! Click on a link and not only get a free Kitty Card from Psycho Cat, but you also get a nice virus infection! How about that? I haven't written anything about Storm in quite a while - it was about time it popped up again! You know, Storm, it's old, but always new. Storm is ... |
12 October 2007
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Malware seems to have a certain graphic that it loyally follows and once it heads for a certain direction, it keeps going that way like there's no turning back. Well, that is what happens most of the times, but it seems that as of late, we've had our share of retarded malware and by that I mean threats that... |
10 October 2007
10:01 GMT |
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Some of us, the normal users, know what e-mails to dodge and when to be cautious about hackers. But some people can't help it - they're compelled to open certain e-mails, as it's in the nature of their workplace. And hackers have noticed this, and now they're exploiting it! Anybody that has a hig... |
25 September 2007
11:01 GMT |
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Things aren't always clear when you're talking about cyber security, and this is why some times, things go bad. Malware is a vague term and refers to a lot of threats, it comes from "malicious" and "software" and a lot of people use this word to dub any cyber-threat. Some don't use "malware" but use "v... |
20 September 2007
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A virus has been disclosed by the Kaspersky company within the Maxtor 3200 Personal Storage - that's an external hard drive. Thing with it is that you get it for free, when purchasing the products. This is the second news item of this type that we had in the past ten days - last week we found out that some lapto... |
20 September 2007
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Perhaps you've heard of Angelina, or Stoned. Angelina… it's the same thing actually. It's a computer virus that when infecting a machine, will spread all over it and possibly damage a floppy disk. Most people have stopped using floppy disks for some time now, so they are not going to be affected by thi... |
14 September 2007
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A few days ago, I got a complaint from a friend that had trouble with his computer. He said it just kept rebooting. That was bizarre - I know that most rebooting problems come from CPU fans not working properly, but his PC was brand new. So I went and checked it out. I turned on the machine, it booted from Windows XP... |
14 September 2007
05:14 GMT |
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A lot of companies make profit on the Web and basically, the Internet helps them expand. Of course, the competition doesn't like that and they might appeal to some evil tactics, in order to bring the other firm down. Here are a few methods of sabotage and advice on how to avoid them.One thing is to limit access ... |
14 September 2007
03:44 GMT |
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These guys are serious about fighting the Storm virus. It has many names and many faces, but all of you know what threat I'm talking about. It's the Trojan bot that has formed the world's largest botnet with more computing power than BlueGene! In any case, Threatstop came up with something to hit Storm... |
13 September 2007
10:06 GMT |
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This is the hot top 10 viruses, containing the old Netsky.P that is still holding up against Storm and with the Kobcka Trojan as a new-entry. Many viruses pop up every day, others fade away, while still others plague us for a very very long time. The Netsky.P is dubbed as 'ancient' by the BitDefender expert... |
13 September 2007
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Corporate network security is something we'll always talk about because it's such a huge subject. And when thinking about it, you have to consider your threats carefully. What can happen? Where do the problems come from and who can really do something bad? When you work in a corporation that handles importa... |
12 September 2007
05:39 GMT |
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Hackers have stolen graphics from VIRUSfighter's website and have made a malware that pretends to be the AV. When being infected with it, the user will receive a prompt claiming that an infection has been detected and that they have to pay to get it quarantined. This is not ransomware, as nothing actually happen... |
11 September 2007
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A new virus, a worm to be more exact has been discovered to be transmitted by Skype and to affect the same program. It's called W32/Skipi.A (as dubbed by F-Secure) or W32Pykspa.D. (the name Symantec gave it) and you can get it by clicking on a link in a conversation.This is not something new, the same type of vi... |
11 September 2007
03:40 GMT |
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Keyloggers are dangerous tools that hackers use to steal data. They can get your account and passwords and anything else they like. Keyloggers simply record everything that you type and give the hacker access to a text file containing the stored key strokes. As you can see, they can be pretty dangerous. So why not st... |
10 September 2007
09:59 GMT |
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IBM has been making supercomputers for a long time now and they have a lot of experience in this domain. Their machines' computing power is huge, but it has been recently surpassed by new-comer Storm. It may sound as this "Storm" is a creator of such machines, but actually - it's not. It's a virus.Thin... |
7 September 2007
10:16 GMT |
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I guess that the Germans have panicked a bit because of all the hackings that took place this year and now they are deploying more and more security measures. This is not a bad thing, but it's sad that hackers had to set examples, for countries to act on cyber-security...Anyway, they have an even newer program t... |
6 September 2007
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August has passed and a lot of security experts have been writing reviews on the threats of the month. One of the best reports I've seen was made by the Sophos researchers. I gotta hand it to 'em, they really did a nice job. In any case, I was looking at the rankings of the roughest and toughest web-based m... |
6 September 2007
10:01 GMT |
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Security on the Internet is just a dream and you know it. If a hacker wants to do something, he or she can do it. If one system is secure and cannot be hacked, then they will steal the data of someone who has access to it, and then, do the "work" from the inside. Do you think you're safe just because some sites ... |
3 September 2007
03:48 GMT |
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It was recently reported that Google's blogging technology Blogger was attacked by a Trojan horse that compromised numerous blogs hosted by the Mountain View company but the search giant's representatives never confirmed it. The Blogger team posted a message on the official blog of the service in order to c... |
3 September 2007
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The first computer virus was written before some of you were even born. Since then, about 25 years have passed and the virus "market" has changed a lot. At the beginning there were just "Hey, look how cool I am" viruses. They weren't the type of malware that would screw up your PC, they were somewhat harmless. A... |
3 September 2007
03:23 GMT |
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Kaspersky has deemed Zango applications as threats and every time a user with KAV wants to install a Zango program, the anti-virus says it's malware. Surely, this did not please Zango, as it affects good marketing... so they took action.Zango sued Kaspersky in a try to make them remove Zango software from the Ka... |
31 August 2007
11:12 GMT |
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Kaspersky Senior Virus Analyst Alexander Gostev wrote a report on malware evolution for the April-June period of this year. It has appeared on Viruslist. It seems that hackers have stopped bothering with writing new types of malware. Sure, there have been some rather tough viruses in this period, but none was anythin... |
30 August 2007
08:33 GMT |
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Google's video service YouTube is more and more affected by security problems especially because the online video sharing platform is very popular and has millions of users every day. Because of that, the hackers and the attackers are turning to YouTube in order to find vulnerable victims to exploit their comput... |
28 August 2007
08:33 GMT |
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The fact that a virus does not go on a daily rampage does not mean it's not on the Internet or that it's obsolete. Many viruses have periods when they infect anything and then, for certain periods of time, they just sit quietly infecting one or two users per day. And this is just something normal for all th... |
28 August 2007
06:33 GMT |
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This was quite a mild week in security, I can't say that we had major issues, except for that outrageous Trojan that hit job sites and wreaked havoc on Monster. There were some spam news, but nothing out of the ordinary. Spam spikes have been plaguing us all year, so we had all sort of messages to rant about, so... |
25 August 2007
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This is a site where security researchers auction their most recent disclosures. Is this right? Sure, it's great that these guys are finally getting some dough for all their work, but what if these flaws are bought out by hackers that will never disclose them to the original program/site creators? I don't t... |
24 August 2007
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The New York Times is one of the largest publications in the entire world, having millions of readers in both offline and online mode. In order to read all the information provided by the online version, the folks working at the NYT created a special Windows application, codenamed 'Times Reader', that downl... |
23 August 2007
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Trend Micro is a software company that has the mission of developing, delivering and supporting the most flexible and customizable Internet security solutions to address the ever-changing threats on the Web.Yesterday, they have published a semi-annual threat roundup and forecast, that can be found on their website. Y... |
21 August 2007
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Some people are curious and sometimes click on dubious links they receive in their e-mails, then they get infected with viruses. There has been a lot of recent talk about the Storm virus that sends a lot of spam with links to different websites, all containing malware. So, now you will get to know what such messages ... |
21 August 2007
06:47 GMT |
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A site's content has alarmed US policemen that took immediate measures, just in case the news was true. The site, debka.com, stated that there is soon going to be a terrorist attack in either Miami, New York or perhaps Los Angeles. They were also giving information about how the attack was going to be like - the... |
16 August 2007
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A parked domain is a certain domain that is being used in advertising, as follows: Internet advertising publishers as well as domain name registrars want to make money off a website and the traffic that website has. The domain will usually contain lots of ads and links. Of course, these sites bring their owners some ... |
15 August 2007
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