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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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Everyone thinks that Panda bears are cute, and I sure like 'em too, but what I really don't like is a virus that turns icons into Pandas. I'm talking about the Fujacks worm here and its story, from the beginning. Fujacks is a worm type virus, which means it can spread itself really fast and infect a lo... |
24 September 2007
08:59 GMT |
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It's all about a virus that is spreading over the Messenger - infected computers will send instant messages to users in the infected one's contact list. The messages contain a link; if you click it, you will get the virus as well and then guess what - you'll start sending those messages as well. The vi... |
21 September 2007
09:10 GMT |
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I was reading the press on the web when I stumbled upon an article on the future of anti-viruses and whether they do have a future or not. For a moment I asked myself the same question - do they have a future? Sure they do! As long as cyber-threats exist, so will AVs. It's just about evolution. And if you don�... |
20 September 2007
08:41 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
04:06 GMT |
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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
03:10 GMT |
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With all the massive campaign against HIV, the infection is booming amongst young homosexual men in New York City, as stated a preliminary data from the Health Department. Since 2001, HIV diagnoses among MSM under age 30 have risen by 33%, from 374 to almost 500 in 2006. The numbers were double among MSM aged 13 to 1... |
14 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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In this case, you just might get yourself a nasty virus. Chinese authorities have announced that users should be wary of downloading virus-infected mooncake greeting cards as Reuters informs. Hackers just might take advantage of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. This thing has happened last year too, on the same o... |
14 September 2007
11:04 GMT |
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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
05:40 GMT |
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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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What you saw yesterday in science fiction movies can become the reality of our days. The fans of the Dune series may see now something resembling the stillsuit and the rehydrator that took water from sweat, fecal matters, or urine.The Life Saver water bottle is employed by the troops as a water sanitizer that can tur... |
14 September 2007
04:29 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
08:15 GMT |
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Have you seen the spam top for the first half of the year? Well, spammers mainly focused on shares, knockoff products, drugs and stuff like that. People have been warned about those spam-scams and many know how to dodge 'em. But what worries me most is that last place in the chart, dubbed "other". There are spam... |
13 September 2007
06:42 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
04:00 GMT |
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This virus has changed its face so many times, that I, for one, have lost track of them. It began its spam campaign with a storm in Europe and since then it sent mails regarding many subjects out of which I can mention celebrity videos, Labor Day cards and account authentication related mails. Of course, now it has m... |
10 September 2007
10:45 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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In the race for an anti-HIV vaccine, scientists have just opened another chapter, discovering the molecular mechanisms that make a few antibodies effective against HIV, while most of them fail. Vaccines have been fighting for long successfully against many infectious diseases, but scientists still do not know how exa... |
7 September 2007
07:06 GMT |
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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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Boy, is this a persistent threat! I never had anything to do with it, but it still annoys me! This virus has been plaguing users for three months now! Do these hackers know no shame? I mean they use every possible reason to send spam. Jesus! Now they're using Labor Day as an excuse to send electronic greeting ca... |
5 September 2007
05:58 GMT |
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This article is about the method cyber-criminals use to get a lot of money via online poker. It is nowhere near legal, and I'm only going to describe this vaguely so that you get the basic idea and learn how to watch out. Here's how they do it:First they go and infect some people with malware, but not just ... |
4 September 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Every time a user tries to insert a file into an email message on the Gmail platform, the antivirus bundled into the technology automatically scans the file and, if it's infected, it blocks the sending process. Being known the fact that some antivirus products also provide fake notifications, the Gmail security ... |
3 September 2007
17:06 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
03:42 GMT |
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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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This mysterious virus can kill you in just one week while you're experiencing jaundice, pancreatitis, weight loss, delirium and neuropsychiatric symptoms, hemorrhaging, hypovolemic shock and multi-organ dysfunction with liver failure and even external hemorrhaging from bodily orifices, just like in Ebola. 23-25%... |
31 August 2007
06:42 GMT |
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Important things first: whatever you do, do NOT visit the Bank Of India official website! Or at least not until further notice. It has been trojan infested and it is dangerous. So stay away from it, if you don't want to get your PC infected. There is not just one threat on the site, two or three, but 25. Yep, th... |
31 August 2007
04:15 GMT |
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This is certainly one of the hackers' greatest ideas. People want to be safe from spyware so they install programs that are supposed to kill any threat of this kind. Now, what the hackers are doing is cleverly disguising spyware as anti-spyware. This is a clever thing indeed. They have always used credible stuff... |
30 August 2007
10:42 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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We hear all the time that many diseases are linked to obesity. But now, a team led by a researcher of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge Louisiana State University, Dr. Magdalena Pasarica, born in Romania, has found that obesity itself is a disease. More precisely, ... |
30 August 2007
03:03 GMT |
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Not even Google's defenses can fight off such a virus. It pounded on Blogger and infected a lot of its sites! It's had 1000 faces and it continues to wreak havoc on the Internet. Storm has been plaguing us since the beginning of the year and it's one heck of a resilient threat. I don't think I�... |
30 August 2007
02:55 GMT |
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What's the best type of AV? And how do I protect myself? These are common questions these days so I'm going to rant about this a little bit so that people can get a better idea on how things stand...Anti-viruses have two approaches on malware. One is for them to know the threat by its signature. How do they... |
29 August 2007
09:10 GMT |
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The United Nations' HIV/AIDS portal for Asia Pacific has been hacked and infected, as has been discovered by Websense Security Labs. This is just low! It's one thing to hack eBay, or Amazon or AOL and other sites like that, but to go and infect such a website that has been created to help people with AIDS (... |
28 August 2007
09:45 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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It hasn't stopped yet; the Storm virus still rages on the Internet, and now it has changed a bit, in order to trick users even better. Of course it still uses standard-issue hacker technique - involving high-profile names to create an illusion of credibility. According to eWeek, this has actually nothing to do w... |
28 August 2007
03:36 GMT |
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In case you haven't read part I and II of these reports, let me say it all in a nut shell for you. It all started last week when a trojan virus called Prg assaulted the job search website "Monster" and stole a lot of user account data. It also jumped other similar sites but Monster was the most affected one. Thi... |
24 August 2007
03:00 GMT |
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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
03:16 GMT |
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Well, if you're in China, you could get $12.500, but it's more probable to get 5 years... or more! Malware developers that have created the annoying Fujacks worm are being trialed in China for their deeds. The culprits Li Jun, Wang Lei, Zhang Shun and Lei Lei are facing charges in a people's court in H... |
22 August 2007
09:35 GMT |
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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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Yesterday, I wrote an article about the Prg trojan, a dangerous virus that steals data like no other while being impossible to stop by anti-viruses because of its self-mutating code. Prg is still at large and continues to wreak havoc on job search sites.I decided to write this "Part II" because I think this is a real... |
21 August 2007
04:46 GMT |
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This has got to be the worst case scenario ever! I have never seen such hacker geniality before. Malware creators have recently designed a new type of trojan called Prg. We all know trojans can't do much to a computer, and neither does this one, but it's great at stealing data. The really impressive part is... |
20 August 2007
05:33 GMT |
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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 |
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We have become more familiar with the Egyptian mummies. Or the Peruvian or Siberian ones. Now, scientists have been surprised to find a drove of mummies in South Korea. Accidentally mummified, the 700-year-old bodies could come with clues to prevent a deadly modern-day infection but they also reveal an Asian variant ... |
27 July 2007
05:20 GMT |
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The FBI federal agents decided to install a spyware file on the computer owned by a MySpace registered member in order to find private information and arrest him for bomb threats concerning a high school in Olympia, Wash, ZDNet reports. According to the same source, the FBI required the court approval that agreed to ... |
19 July 2007
10:29 GMT |
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AOL has just rolled out a new version of the Internet Security Central, a special portal that allows you to use a freeware set of tools to protect your computer from viruses, hackers, spyware and other infections. The folks from AOL proudly announced that they managed to partner with McAfee in order to bundle McAfee ... |
19 July 2007
04:10 GMT |
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Our immune system cannot be turned on or off like a light switch. On the contrary, it responds to an invasion of bacteria, viruses or parasites through a combination of defensive weapons which adapt smoothly to the situation. The simplest reaction of the immune system is for example that triggered by a mosquito bite:... |
16 July 2007
14:16 GMT |
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They're not really functioning cybernetic organisms, but they may be a new step towards taking this concept from the sci-fi productions and bringing it to the real world. A new generation of electronics was now created by combining semiconductors with biological viruses, in what could be considered an environmen... |
14 July 2007
04:52 GMT |
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Biofilms are slimy layers of bacteria formed by large agglomerations of bacteria, many times of several species, kept together by adhesive molecules. They can appear almost anywhere, even on your teeth when you don't brush them for a day or two. They can be resistant to many types of antibiotics and when they f... |
10 July 2007
02:42 GMT |
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FlexiSPY is one of the most frequently used applications when it comes to monitoring everything that a mobile phone user does with its device. Although the producing company considers it a mere program, many people see it as an insidious and unwelcomed software.Who in the world would like being monitored in absolute... |
3 July 2007
05:52 GMT |
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There are just three species of blood-sucking bats and just one of vampire bats which attack humans. But even if tiny, this non-Transylvanian Dracula (they live just in tropical America) can still kill you. Not because of the amount of blood it sucks (no more than two little spoons), but by infecting you with rabies.... |
28 June 2007
05:22 GMT |
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The classical concept states that HIV gradually decreases the body's immune ability to fight infection. But a new research proves that this principle is wrong, turning upside-down all the researches in the field. HIV is known to attack the human immune cells called T helper cells. Their loss can occur over many... |
26 June 2007
08:35 GMT |
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