Anti-Spyware and PC Security News

Archive for July, 2008


27
Jul

Hackers Attack Businesses, Blogs and Web 2.0 Sites

Cybercrime gangs enlist the help of Blogspot, Facebook and Angelina Jolie in first half of 2008.
IT security and control firm Sophos has published new research into the first six months of cybercrime in 2008. The Sophos Security Threat Report examines existing and emerging security trends and has identified that criminals are increasingly using creative new […]


17
Jul

Report: cybercrime groups starting to operate like the Mafia

By Emil Protalinski
Cybercrime is evolving. The lone hacker who steals and resells credit card numbers is being replaced by a well-structured business model. The game is no longer simply about hacking for fame, but rather about creating a business where you have frequent customers who buy your stolen product. The latest research report from […]


13
Jul

Virusheat Does More Than Heat Up Your Computer

It never fails. When you think we’ve covered every nasty rogue anti-spyware program there is out there, another one rears its ugly head. This time it is in the form of Virusheat and it is one of the newest ones infecting computers world wide. Getting rid of this nasty little program takes a lot patience […]


09
Jul

Major Internet Security Flaw Exposed

by Deborah Gage
A security researcher Tuesday revealed a flaw that makes it possible for someone to take control of the Internet.
The flaw is in the design of the Internet’s Domain Name System, a fundamental feature of the Internet that makes it possible for computers to find Web sites. DNS works like a phone book–computers […]


07
Jul

Study: 637 million Google users surfing with insecure browser

by Ryan Naraine
According to a new study from researchers at Google, IBM and ETH Zurich, there are about 637 million Google users surfing the Internet with a vulnerable Web browser.
Using data from Google search queries and security vulnerability aggregator Secunia, the study (HTML or PDF) found that a whopping 45 percent of Google users “were […]

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