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Microsoft has broken its monthly cycle of security updates to plug a few holes in its Internet Explorer browser, including the Download.Ject scripting weakness that caused a widespread, Web-based attack scare in June. The Download.Ject vulnerability and similar browser weaknesses prompted many secur...
As U.S. elections draw near, computer science experts and e-voting critics are making dire predictions about the outcome if paperless, closed-code touch-screen machines are used by Americans casting their ballots. The criticism grew into a challenge at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas ...
Virus writers busily scribbled code during the first half of 2004, introducing 4,677 new viruses into the wild, a 21 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a report released by Sophos, an international maker of antivirus and antispam software. "There's a greater interest in wr...
Don't click on those alleged Osama bin Laden "suicide" pictures. The pictures are a hoax. They connect curious viewers to a damaging "Trojan horse" program. Word about the images spread fast late last week and through the weekend via Usenet postings, instead of the usual method of attaching them to ...
Computer virus companies spent yesterday scampering to develop defenses for the newest strain of the MyDoom virus, dubbed MyDoom.O. By mid morning yesterday, thousands of e-mail inboxes were filling up with headers designed to encourage opening. This latest worm variant of the MyDoom family was spre...
Computer virus companies spent yesterday scampering to develop defenses for the newest strain of the MyDoom virus, dubbed MyDoom.O. By mid morning yesterday, thousands of e-mail inboxes were filling up with headers designed to encourage opening. This latest worm variant of the MyDoom family was spre...
The reports about the worm, a variant of a Web attack called MyDoom, came as outages on the search site Google.com hit in the United States, France and Great Britain. In many places the site was said to be working normally.
An online security firm warned Saturday that the latest Internet virus was using spectacular claims about terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden to trick people into infecting their own computers.
In today's world of warnings, dangers and the need for safety precautions, even surfing the Internet for business or pleasure is fraught with hazards. Despite the growing epidemic of spyware infections, many computer users remain unfazed by the call to arms in the fight for safer computing practices...
Experts at Sophos have warned computer users that a file posing as photographic evidence that Osama Bin Laden has killed himself is in fact infected by the Hackarmy Trojan horse. Thousands of messages have been posted onto internet message boards and usenet newsgroups claiming that journalists from ...
Security experts are praising the international bust of a Russian Internet extortion ring, but they also warn that cyber strong-arm schemes -- which use viruses, worms, trojans and the threat of denial of service (DoS) attacks -- are increasing and spreading to different targets, including e-commerc...
Antivirus company Sophos's virus researchers reported the first ever virus to infect the Microsoft Pocket PC operating system. The Duts virus (W32/Duts-A) is able to infect PDAs running the Pocket PC operating system, and it was reportedly written by the 29A virus writing gang. This is the same grou...
One prominent computer hacker has been sentenced and a suspected hacker was indicted in the past week, both of them saying their cyber exploits were designed to point out security deficiencies. Infamous hacker Adrian Lamo, 23, who was known as "the helpful hacker" because he reported his exploits to...
Since wireless phones have become so inexpensive and easy to use, their use is rapidly rising in corporations. While the phones can deliver alluring productivity benefits, they also can present a new security risk: Corporate assets, such as new products, manufacturing floor layouts, and business pla...
Those who get caught stealing personal identity information to commit theft or fraud -- whether by sifting through trash or posting bogus Web sites on the Internet to trick users into divulging data -- will be facing more time in jail thanks to a new federal law. The Identity Theft Penalty Enhanceme...
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