The FBI used spyware to catch a Massachusetts man who tried to extort money from Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp. by cutting 18 cables carrying voice and data in 2005, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Wired.com revealed yesterday.
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Spyware Protect 2009 is a rogue anti-malware program that uses false results, fake malware, and fake security alerts to scare you into purchasing the software. Historically, Spyware Protect 2009 has been installed via a variety of Trojans and malware.
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Spyware Protect 2009 is a rogue anti-malware program that uses false results, fake malware, and fake security alerts to scare you into purchasing the software. Historically, Spyware Protect 2009 has been installed via a variety of Trojans and malware.
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An updated version of the Conficker worm is installing malware that attempts to lure people into buying rogue anti-virus software. Security researchers also say the worm is downloading malware tied to the notorious Waledac botnet.
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Microsoft Corp. today said it will issue eight security updates on Tuesday, the most since October 2008, to patch problems in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), DirectX, Excel, Word and the company's security software.
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The use of scareware and exploits that take advantage of common file formats like PDF, Excel and Word rose in the second half of last year as online scammers realized people are getting smarter about recognizing spam and phishing e-mails, according to a Microsoft security report released on Wednesday.
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XP-Shield is a rogue anti-spyware program that is in the same family as AntiVirProtect and WinXProtector. When XP-Shield is installed, it will scan your computer and list a variety of security risks that can only be removed if you first purchase the software.
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The experts at SRI International, who have been tracking the Conficker worm as closely as anyone, have released the source code to the scanner they wrote to detect the active P2P scanning that Conficker-infected machines perform.
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It seems like everyone is putting out their spam stats this week. It was inevitable that mass mailers would begin using more localized information to target their spam at end users, if you think about it they've already been doing that for a long time, depending on what language the messages display when they arrive in your inbox.
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An interesting bird this Conficker. A botnet, a worm, a USB infection... a media darling and technological masterpiece, yet, a wraith whose true intentions have yet to have been laid bare. An April Fools' Day joke punch line undelivered.
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For the second time in five weeks, Microsoft Corp. warned that hackers were exploiting a critical unpatched bug in its popular Office application suite. In a pre-patch security advisory issued late yesterday, Microsoft confirmed that attackers were using rigged PowerPoint files to trigger the vulnerability in older editions of the presentation maker.
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A new version of the Neeris worm is exploiting the same Microsoft flaw as Conficker. The Neeris worm dates back to 2005, according to Microsoft. An updated version of an old worm is targeting the same Microsoft vulnerability exploited by variants of Conficker.
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Once a Conficker infection is suspected on a system, the anti-virus software installed on that system can no longer be trusted. The malware terminates a number of security mechanisms and prevents the start of certain programs.
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The threat from Web-based malware is growing at a rapid pace, with nearly 200 percent more malicious sites identified this month, according to a new report from MessageLabs.
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April 1 has come and gone in some parts of the world, and the Conficker worm is still here. While the day in security passed by relatively uneventfully, there are still people at risk.
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There were no significant changes to this ranking in March. The network worm Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.ih, also known as Conficker and Downadup, topped the list. However, we don't expect to see the latest version of this now infamous malicious program among the leaders in the following months.
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As a result of some tremendous work done by researchers at the University of Toronto, we now know that there is an enormous network of compromised machines in more than 100 countries around the world, many of them in government agencies, embassies and other sensitive locations.
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Spyware Guard 2008 is a rogue anti-spyware program that uses deceptive advertising methods. This program is promoted through the use of fake online anti-malware scanners that state your computer is infected and that you should download and install Spyware Guard 2008 to protect it.
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A cyber spy network based mainly in China has tapped into classified documents from government and private organizations in 103 countries, including the computers of Tibetan exiles, Canadian researchers said Saturday.
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A cyber spy network based mainly in China has tapped into classified documents from government and private organizations in 103 countries, including the computers of Tibetan exiles, Canadian researchers said Saturday.
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Online attack code has been released targeting a critical, unpatched flaw in the Firefox browser. The attack code, written by security researcher Guido Landi was published on several security sites Wednesday, sending Firefox developers scrambling to patch the issue.
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The Conficker worm continues to slither its way across the Internet, and a major update for the malware is looming on April 1. Just what will happen is anyone's guess, security researchers say, but there are malware removal tools and protections out there for users.
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Security researchers are in the dark about what will happen next week when the newest variant of Conficker, 2009's biggest worm by a mile, begins trying to contact its controllers.
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In a new cyber-crime report, security vendor Finjan found a traffic management server that showed a ring of cyber-crooks redirected 1.8 million users to a site that installed rogue anti-virus over the course of two weeks, raking in an average of $10,800 a day.
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The Conficker worm is scheduled to activate on April 1, and the unanswered question is: Will it prove to be the world's biggest April Fool's joke or is it the information age equivalent of Herman Kahn's legendary 1962 treatise about nuclear war, "Thinking About the Unthinkable"?
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Security experts are warning that some new "scareware" programs, software that tries to frighten consumers into purchasing bogus security products, also encrypt the victim's digital documents until he or she agrees to pay a $50 ransom demand.
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We thought to have some peace and more security for a while on our Internet searches and instead they are back again: the rogues. It is now the turn of innocent searches regarding National Invitational Tournaments brackets for 2009 year.
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Microsoft officials at the company's MIX09 conference here said IE 8 will become available for download from the Internet Explorer 8 Website at 9 a.m. PDT on March 19.
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