8 Feb 2008

3000+ Good Reasons to Dump Windows. Every day…

Everyone knows that there are lots of Viruses, Malware, Spybots and the like out there…. But now, according to the BBC these malicious programs have reached unprecedented levels. Reports vary but some estimates suggest there were five times as many... (posted on 8 Feb 2008 by The Open Sourcerer)

5 Feb 2008

Security Companies Agree To Testing Standards

IBM, Microsoft, McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro, and Panda Security are among those in Spain this week hammering out details of the anti-malware group.Despite their business differences, computer security companies are coming together to standardize... (posted on 5 Feb 2008 by Presto Vivace Blog)

5 Feb 2008

Malware Testing Evolving

The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) announced has been established by a group of leading anti-malware vendors to address an: industry-wide concern about the increasing mismatch between what anti-malware technologies actually do, and... (posted on 5 Feb 2008 by Realtime Messaging and Web Security)

28 Jan 2008

Blogs Set Up to Push Malware

Ken Steinberg of Savant Protection has discovered attackers are using script generated blogs to push malware. Dark Reading reports the story of how malware pushers are shifting from just using posts to actually hosting entire blogs. The blogs are... (posted on 28 Jan 2008 by Realtime Messaging and Web Security)

24 Jan 2008

Cybercriminals Use Heath Ledger’s Death to Spread Malware

Trend Micro is reporting that within hours of the news that popular actor Heath Ledger had been found dead in his New York apartment, several malware sites appeared at the top of search listings for the words “heath” and “ledger”. Users... (posted on 24 Jan 2008 by Gadgetell)

24 Jan 2008

Thinking Outside the Legal Box

How is this for creative thinking, when you can't charge someone with distributing malware try hitting them with a copyright infringement. That just happened in Japan where three men confessed to deploying a Trojan that wipes out MP3 and movie files. (posted on 24 Jan 2008 by Realtime Messaging and Web Security)

23 Jan 2008

The Drive-by Download Menace

Security researchers are finding more malware pushed from Web sites, including trusted sites that have been compromised. Both Sophos and Websense have reported increased activity on this front; for more on the Websense report, see yesterday's post, When... (posted on 23 Jan 2008 by Realtime Messaging and Web Security)

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