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Cabir bluejacks cellphones (About.com)
The newly discovered cellphone worm - Cabir - uses Bluetooth to spread. However, the worm isn't in the wild and doesn't have a malicious payload. Let's just hope its discovery doesn't result in yet another round of needless hoaxes. Full...
Zafi.b worm (About.com)
Zafi.B is a mass-mailing email worm that can also spread via network shares and P2P networks. The worm also has a rather devious payload.Full Story...
Browser hijackings (About.com)
Often accused of being drive-by downloads, these pesky Internet parasites can quickly take advantage of an improperly secured system, embedding themselves as a "browser help object" and redirecting you to a host of unsavory sites. Full Story...
Online bookies TKO'd by hackers (About.com)
Criminal hackers are trying to win the extortion lotto, hitting up online bookies for loads of cash. If the bookies don't pay up, the hackers DoS their sites. Andy McCue of Silicon.com reports....
Microsoft patches released on June 8, 2004: (About.com)
Vulnerability in Crystal Reports Web Viewer Could Allow Information Disclosure and Denial of Service (MS04-017)Affected Software: Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft Business Solutions CRM Visual Studio .NET 2003 Gold, Microsoft Business Solutions CRM Gold Moderate http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS04-017.mspx Vulnerability in DirectPlay Could...
Plexus worms jump on Shrek2 bandwagon (About.com)
A new family of worms dubbed Plexus spread via the Internet, email, network shares, and filesharing networks such as Kazaa. The worms exploit the LSASS vulnerability first exploited by the Sasser worm and the RPC/DCOM flaw made famous by the...
Will Harry Potter hooplah lead to infection? (About.com)
Antivirus vendor Sophos is warning users that fanfare surrounding the newly released 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' movie may signal a rebirth of the Netsky.P worm. Netsky.P is both an email and filesharing worm, and can spread via...
Scam emails lead to Trojaned websites (About.com)
Criminal emailers are increasingly enticing users to visit websites that have been booby-trapped with downloader Trojans. The carrot may be a promise of porn or a scare tactic similar to a phishing scam where the user is urged to visit...
Old cellphone hoax finds new believers (About.com)
Further proof that old hoaxes never die, the cellphone hoax is once again alive and well thanks to new groups of gullible users willing to pass it along....
Cleaning up cyberspace, one crook at a time (About.com)
It's been a bad week for cyber criminals - making it a great week for the rest of us. Wang An-ping, a 30-year-old computer programmer from Taiwan has been arrested for writing and distributing the Peep Trojan, Howard Carmack a.k.a....
Mac OS X flaws (About.com)
According to Apple, Mac OS X Panther "offers breakthroughs in innovation, ease of use and reliability". Apparently, these breakthroughs are also providing fertile ground for malware. Full Story...
Spammer using fake websites in fraud gets 46 months in pr... (About.com)
A 20-year-old man, Zachary Keith Hill, was sentenced in Houston, TX to 46 months in prison for a rash of phishing expeditions designed to con folks out of credit card and personal financial details. Yahoo News reports....
Was Cisco source code stolen? (About.com)
Robert Lemos of CNet reports that Cisco is investigated rumors that 800Mb of the networking giant's source code was compromised. Cisco provides hardware, software, and services designed for Internet communications and security. According to Lemos, snippets of the alleged stolen...
Bitmap trojan results from source code leak (About.com)
Last February's disclosure of leaked Windows source code immediately led to the publishing of an exploit involving bitmap image files (.BMP). Now, antivirus vendors report a Trojan has been discovered which uses this same exploit to gain remote control of...
750,000+ infected by Phatbot (About.com)
A report in Heise Online reveals at least 750,000 Phatbot infected systems giving attackers remote control of impacted systems. According to Lurhq, the Phatbot trojan is a direct descendant of Agobot (a.k.a. Gaobot). According to McAfee AVERT, there are over...
IBM to launch a managed e-mail filtering service (Computer World)
IBM's new E-mail Security Management Services is based on a set of services from MessageLabs and is designed to filter messages for viruses, spam and inappropriate content before they reach a company's network.
Microsoft on track to offer antivirus software (Computer World)
Microsoft Corp. is still on track to offer an antivirus product that will compete against similar software offered by Symantec Corp. and Network Associates Inc., the company said.
Retail PCs can reach customers without latest patches (Computer World)
Buyers of new PCs may not realize that those machines might have been sitting in a warehouse for several months, and might lack the most recent patches required to keep them safe from viruses and worms.
Cisco to use Trend Micro antivirus technologies (Computer World)
Cisco Systems said it will incorporate Trend Micro virus and worm technologies into intrusion-detection system software used on its routers and switches.
Intrusion-prevention start-up touts 'memory firewall' (Computer World)
Determina Inc. today is launching a memory firewall technology that takes a new approach to host intrusion
Sidebar: Microsoft Sees Need to Escalate Efforts in Secur... (Computer World)
A Microsoft security executive said last week that the threat of potentially more destructive viruses makes it difficult to tell if the company is winning the war to protect its products from malicious attacks.
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