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Top Security Threats

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
08:30 GMT

More on Storm

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

Security Freaks in the US

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
10:53 GMT

Hackers Hit Parking Lot

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
13:56 GMT

Small Virus, High Price

Every user, at least once in his entire life, was prompted by his anti-virus that said it deleted some trojan. If this didn't happen to you, you probably heard it happened to your friend or some relative. This type of virus is probably one of the most common and one of the less dangerous threats until now, anyw...

14 August 2007
10:23 GMT

Wild Threat Attacks Yahoo Mail

Security company Symantec detected a new threat that is meant to harm Yahoo Mail and to exploit a vulnerability that seems to exist in the Sunnyvale company's email product. JS.Yamanner@m is a worm created in JavaScipt that cannot be executed in the last version of Yahoo Mail Beta so only the users of the classi...

13 August 2007
09:23 GMT

Teen Sexual Pics Spreading on Internet

A new survey reveals that 4 percent of the US teenagers are asked to offer a sexual picture to send it on the Internet although they communicate with unknown persons. The research included 1500 persons with ages from 10 to 17 and according to News24.com, it was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Basically...

23 July 2007
09:34 GMT

100.000 New Phishing Websites Every Week

The Kassel X-Force content research team made a market research to find out how many phishing websites appear every week and how many of them are really dangerous for the users. The results were really shocking: 100.000 new phishing pages are rolled out every week, 99.8 percent of them being based on automated phishi...

22 June 2007
17:06 GMT

Viewing YouTube Clips Might Infect Your Computer

The security companies from the Internet warned that the popular YouTube is infected with the Ziob trojan so, watching some certain clips might infect you computer as well. Secure Computer and ComSentry Network were the two security firms that discovered the presence of the threat, adding that the video clip assaults...

21 June 2007
14:36 GMT

YouTube to Become Dangerous for Your Computer

The Websense Security Lab released an advisory announcing the popular online video sharing service YouTube is being used in an attempt to steal private information from an affected computer. The entire exploitation is based on a file named YouTube04567.exe that must be downloaded and executed by a user with administr...

12 June 2007
10:36 GMT

Beware! More Spam and Viruses Coming to Your Inbox!

It's well know the fact that our computers are more and more affected by malicious files but when we have exact numbers, it is even more frightening. Security company MessageLabs conducted a special research to observe the evolution of the threats in May 2007, revealing that our systems are becoming more and mor...

8 June 2007
10:41 GMT

Bill Gates And Hotmail In Top May Internet Threats

The Internet is not a safe place even for the protected users because the number of threats is increasing every day. Security company Sophos released its monthly report concerning the top threats discovered in May 2007, revealing that China and United States are still the top two countries hosting malware-infected we...

4 June 2007
03:51 GMT

80 Percent of the Blogs Are Dangerous

The online blogs tend to become somehow mandatory because almost every Internet user owns a blog or is looking for a powerful service to host one. However, the blogs are not always useful and efficient because they might represents an easy way to exploit several vulnerabilities on the visitors' computers. Accord...

24 April 2007
17:06 GMT


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