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InternetNews October 27, 2010 |
Malware Scams Pick Up In Retail Sector Targeted attacks are becoming more and more common as hackers seek out specific individuals or groups to steal proprietary information. |
InternetNews June 4, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Fake Microsoft E-Mail Carries Real Malware Security experts are warning of deceptive e-mails that claim that Microsoft Outlook needs an update. |
InternetNews October 31, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Symantec's Latest: Customized Threat Protection Symantec announced a custom threat analysis and protection service through its Global Services Security Response unit. Managed Threat Analysis, is designed to help companies facing more targeted attacks from criminals looking to steal intellectual property. |
InternetNews January 13, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
AVG Buys Sana For ID Theft Protection Pure play antivirus vendors are making sure they don't become extinct. |
InternetNews April 22, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner |
Who's Taking the Bait: 'Phishing' Skyrockets Online security groups say the scamming technique used for identity theft is proliferating as fast as viruses, with attacks up over a thousand percent since September. |
InternetNews February 9, 2010 |
McAfee Finds Spike In Malware From China A new study by security software vendor McAfee finds a growing number of cyber attacks originating in China and predicts even more malware scams will target fans of popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. |
InternetNews May 13, 2010 |
One Gang Responsible For Most Phishing Attacks More than two-thirds of all phishing attacks in the second half of 2009 were the work of one gang, according to an anti-phishing group. |
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Online Trust: A Thing of the Past? Malware attacks are turning the Web upside down, and complicating the efforts of security vendors and users to cope with the threats. |
InternetNews January 29, 2007 Michael Hickins |
Microsoft Warns of New Zero-Day Flaw Microsoft is investigating new public reports of limited "zero-day" attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000. |
InternetNews July 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
U.S., South Korea Under Cyber Attack Governments and security firms are working together to fight an attack which, though massive, contains very primitive components. |
Wall Street & Technology December 19, 2007 Melanie Rodier |
U.S. Banks Are Targets in 60 Percent of Worldwide Phishing Attacks Phishing attacks against global banking brands target U.S. institutions most, according to security solutions provider RSA. |
InternetNews February 2, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Are Legitimate Sites the Next Malware Threat? Businesses may be exposing their customers to malware by leaving their sites unpatched, IBM warns in a new study. |
InternetNews February 25, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Phishing Attacks Jump 42 Percent An anti-phishing group says scam e-mails that seek users' personal information increased sharply last month. The types of attacks are also expanding. The United States had the most phishing sites, with China and South Korea placing second and third, respectively. |
PC World November 2005 Erik Larkin |
Threat Alert: Spear Phishing Targeted e-mail attacks try to lure you in with specific, convincing messages. |
InternetNews July 8, 2005 David Needle |
CERT Warns on Latest Trojan Horse Attacks Targeted e-mail viruses may be behind some recent Internet outages. The trojan horse viruses can evade anti-virus software and appear to be from a trusted source. |
InternetNews May 20, 2010 |
South America Emerges As Cybercrime Hotspot China gets all the bad press but it turns out that Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands and a bunch of South American countries are actually the least discriminating when it comes to filtering malware. |
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Tim Gray |
Browser-Based Attacks on the Rise Browser-based attacks such as pharming and phishing scams are now the fastest-growing security threat on the Internet. |
PC Magazine November 29, 2006 Robert Lemos |
Hacking for Dollars Viruses and worms are so last-decade. Today's PC users have to worry more about online burglary than stolen bandwidth. |
InternetNews December 16, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Several Attacks Behind CheckFree Data Breach The cybercriminals who breached the CheckFree bill paying service last week used a combination attack that may be almost impossible to stop. |
InternetNews November 23, 2009 |
IBM Outlines Top Security Trends for 2010 IBM's X-Force security team sees cyber crooks getting social and heading for the clouds. |
InternetNews December 18, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Real Phishing Tool Probes User Gullibility Now you can find the weakest point of security in your company: your staff. Core Security Technologies has updated its CORE IMPACT software to test an internal infrastructure against phishing attacks. |
InternetNews August 10, 2009 |
IBM Adds Web App Defense to Security Portfolio IBM today unveiled new enhancements to its security suite aimed at safeguarding Web applications and data, as attacks preying on such targets continue to dominate the headlines. |
InternetNews September 29, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
IM Attacks on The Rise New IM attacks are more stealthful than before so you might not even know you've been hit. |
Search Engine Watch January 20, 2010 Jason King |
Google's New Approach to China: A Closer Look at the Attack Heard 'Round the Web Taking a look at the numerous security implications for Google users after last week's cyber attack on Google by China. |
InternetNews March 2, 2011 |
PDF Malware on the Rise: MessageLabs Latest report from security vendor Symantec's MessageLabs unit highlights surge in malicious software hiding in PDF attachments, while overall email threats are on the rise. |
InternetNews September 17, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Have We Reached The End Of The Virus? Not quite. The old-fashioned virus infestation is fading as the biggest nuisance for computer users in favor of Trojans, Symantec's new malware study finds. |
InternetNews February 17, 2009 Sean Gallagher |
Social Networks a Magnet for Malware Just like the crooks robbed the banks because that's where the money is, malware will go where the people are. |
InternetNews May 13, 2010 |
APWG Fingers 'Avalanche' Phishing Syndicate The Anti-Phishing Working Group says one highly sophisticated and well-organized group of cyber thieves was responsible for a huge spike in phishing attacks late last year. |
InternetNews July 6, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Trojans on The March Is it all Microsoft's fault? One security vendor suggests that users may well want to switch to a less-targeted OS. |
PC Magazine August 17, 2005 Sebastian Rupley |
Beyond Viruses The cost to U.S. companies of doing battle with network attacks has fallen significantly. |
InternetNews March 25, 2010 |
Symantec: China Is Tops in Targeted Malware Symantec's latest report pinpoints China as the leading source of malware tailored to hoodwink execs in specific industries. |
InternetNews May 6, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner |
The Cost of Phishing Hits $1.2 Billion The wider impact to the enterprise is an erosion of consumer trust, a new Gartner research study suggests. |
InternetNews November 7, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Salesforce.com Scrambles To Halt Phishing Attacks Another example of why humans - not technology - are the weakest link in security. |
InternetNews March 30, 2010 |
IBM to Help Defend FAA From Cyber Attacks IBM will test a new system to monitor and safeguard the FAA's networks against hackers, data theft and malware. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Twitter Now Alerts Users To State-Sponsored Attacks More than 20 users received a notice saying their Twitter accounts were among "a small group of accounts that may have been targeted by state-sponsored actors." |
InternetNews April 9, 2010 |
Phishers Rev Up IRS Scams for Tax Time With tax season in full swing, online scammers are blanketing the Internet with polished messages posing as the IRS trying to entice users to click on a link that could expose their personal information. |
National Defense December 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Defense Department Partners With Industry To Stem Staggering Cybertheft Losses The amount of intellectual property hackers are stealing from U.S. companies and sending to China is said to be staggering. The private sector's crown jewels are being moved off nominally secure networks and transmitted to the Asian nation every day: usually from 9 to 5 -- Beijing time. |
InternetNews June 11, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Malware Keeps Creeping Onto Mac OS X The Apple Mac is still seeing far fewer attacks than Windows experiences, but researchers say there's a disturbing trend at work. |
InternetNews June 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Symantec Says Phishers Have New Tools Automated toolkits are making it easier to attack services such as Facebook, Twitter and financial services brands. |
InternetNews February 25, 2010 |
Malware Thrives Despite Improved Security: IBM Security researchers at IBM's X-Force find 6,601 new software vulnerabilities in 2009, down 11 percent from last, but that hasn't stopped hackers and phishers from finding new ways to rip off consumers. |
InternetNews December 28, 2010 |
Security 2010: The Year in Review Stuxnet, embarrassing data leaks and sophisticated phishing attacks dominated the data security landscape in 2010. |
National Defense August 2012 Eric Beidel |
Companies Rush to Tailor Products to New Cyber-Attacks The cybersecurity marketplace is flooded with products that tout the ability to keep networks and computers safe from intruders. |
InternetNews August 25, 2005 Clint Boulton |
China Sites Said Behind U.S. Network Attacks Report says the latest spate of attacks from China-based sites on U.S. government networks raises new concerns. But one analyst wonders about the alarm. |
Registered Rep. May 24, 2011 Lauren Barack |
Cyber-Hackers: Faster, Better Equipped Than You Security should be the responsibility of all employees - not just the chief technology officer, or the principal of an advisory firm. |
InternetNews February 15, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Another Week, Another MS Word Exploit Emerges Microsoft is investigating new public reports of "very limited, targeted attacks" against Microsoft Word. |
InternetNews February 25, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Online Trust Takes a Hit in Gmail Chat Phishing Security experts are warning that a phishing attack on Google's Gmail's chat feature not only poses a danger to users, but could be a harbinger of things to come. |
InternetNews May 26, 2006 Tim Scannell |
Jamie de Guerre, Director, Partner Programs, Cloudmark Spam isn't going anywhere, and Jamie de Guerre's company is tracking its trails through our inboxes. |
InternetNews February 26, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner |
Worms Continue to Wriggle, Wreak Havoc 'Zero-day' exploits and new styles of viruses send security firms scrambling to patch the latest holes in the network. |
CRM September 1, 2005 Coreen Bailor |
Statistically Speaking An independent study of 6,000 mobile users found that the average mobile worker... The number of people targeted by phishing e-mail attacks grew 28%... The global ERP market is like to rise through 2009... etc. |
InternetNews March 3, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Digg Hackers Strike Next at YouTube Attacks are on the rise, with malware authors dabbling in spreading worms and scareware via comments. |