iTWire has published a number of stories on the recent iPhone / iPod Touch virus Ikee and it was alluded in these that the naughty boys would pick up on the basic code and make it do something useful. Guess what, they have already!
Everybody loves Twitter -- especially the spammers, scammers and black hat hackers. Lately, they've been ramping up via Direct Messages and Trash Tweets. This has been hugely embarrassing for many businesses and brands whose hard-won Follows have targeted with either nonsense DMs or spammy "make $100's a day online" and "Find out how Twitter can make you money, get massive followers and Tweet yourself to some cash!" If you're wondering if you've inadvertently picked up a virus, there's an easy way to check and then remove it:
The "Conficker" and "Taterf" computer worms are still going strong a year after they made their first appearances, U.S. experts say.
Eric Sites, chief technology officer of anti-virus firm Sunbelt Software, told Monday's USA Today the viruses may be unstoppable, but observed, "The sad fact is worms and viruses would be wiped out if everyone used best security practices."
A newly discovered worm is said to affect owners of Jailbroken iPhones and/or iPod Touches who have installed SSH and not changed the default password. The origin of the worm has been traced to Australia, since there is where iPhone users first reported their devices were infected. There’s no reports of iPhone infections in other countries yet.
Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses — the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it's your reputation that's stolen.
Apple's super-skinny MacBook Air is one of the most desirable laptops on the planet - which means it's not too surprising if criminals try and take advantage of its allure to infect unsuspecting computer users.
And that's exactly what hackers are doing today in a malicious email campaign that has been spammed widely out across the internet.
Detecting the presence of malicious code is one thing, successfully eradicating it is entirely another.
According to AV-Comparatives.org’s recently released malware removal test evaluating the effectiveness of sixteen antivirus solutions, only a few were able to meet their criteria of not only removing the FakeAV, Vundo, Rustock and ZBot(Zeus) samples they were tested against, but also getting rid of the potentially dangerous “leftovers” from the infection. More info on the tested antivirus solutions , and how they scored:
A new report from the FBI cyber crime division said hackers have attempted theft of $100 million from online bank accounts, using sophisticated malware that steals bank account passwords.
The $100 million total attempted theft as of October 2009 has resulted in about $40 million of unrecovered losses, the Washingotn Post has reported, while the FBI is seeing "several new victim complaints and cases opened every week," the agency said in a warning published Tuesday.
In the year since the inception of the Conficker worm, a malicious strain of virus that has infected computers all over the globe, security researchers have tracked its spread to as many as 7 million machines.
Although internet security researchers at the Conficker Working Group advise that it is impossible to track the exact number of PCs infected by Conficker, the latest estimates put the worm's spread at around the 7 million mark, a milestone in the making of a huge botnet, according to Computerworld.
Security firm Dasient has compiled some interesting numbers regarding the slums of the internet, in particular the number of pages hosting malware. Combined with numbers released earlier this year by Microsoft and Google it leads to a disturbing and messy forecast.
