An increasing variety of malware like worms, spyware and adware threatens both personal and business computing. Modern malware has two features; malware evolves rapidly; self-propagating malware can spread very fast. These features lead to a strong need for automatic actions against new unknown malware.
According to PandaLabs of computer security firm Panda Security, it has identified another mode of dissemination for malicious software named the MySecurityEngine FAKEAV.
Internet cafes, how convenient and especially when you?re on holiday somewhere. It?s hot, sticky and sunny. You?ve been swimming and lounging about all day and you suddenly remember an important email from your boss or you may want to quickly check your online bank to see how much you?ve been spending on your holiday.
A recent spate of virus-ridden computers has left me feeling philosophical about the state of desktop management. Fortunately for me, these computers were not part of my corporate network, instead they were personal computers or servers maintained by other systems administrators. The cases come from all over. Family, friends, that nice shopkeep with the excellent wonton soup, or a friend of a friend in over his head with a server he maintains for charity.
Spam isn't taking a holiday in the upcoming summer season. According to the latest information from MessageLabs, spam is just getting started. The new report finds that 90% of all email is now spam, more botnets are getting set in Africa and malware is now focusing on the upcoming Soccer World Cup events. Here is the break-down:
Mark Gasson, a senior research fellow working at the University of Reading’s ‘infected’ himself with a computer virus by implanting an RFID chip into his hand.??
Not long after I launched this blog, I wrote about the damage wrought by the Eleonore Exploit Kit, an increasingly prevalent commercial hacking tool that makes it easy for criminals to booby-trap Web sites with malicious software. That post generated tremendous public interest because it offered a peek at the statistics page that normally only the criminals operating these kits get to see.
Mark Gasson, a University of Reading researcher has recently become the first known human being to be infected by a computer virus.
You might be wondering how such a thing could be possible. Humans infected by computer viruses?
PROXIEZ-NET, an Internet Service Provider based in Russia, that cyber-thieves popularly used for stealing logins for online banking is said to have been cut off from the Internet on May 14, 2010 following services severed from DIGERNET, the ISP's upstream provider. PROXIEZ-NET harbored around 13 command-and-control servers of the notorious Zeus Trojan prior to being cut off from DIGERNET.
Security experts are warning of a clickjacking worm spreading via Facebook which tricks users into posting it on their status updates, although it does not appear to be malicious.
According to F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hyponnen, the worm posts the following message: "try not to laugh xD http://www.fbhole. com/omg/allow.php?s=a&r=[random number]". Clicking on the link takes users to another page which displays a fake error message.
