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Article | 1/09/2005 Zotob author may be virus mastermind

The teenager arrested on suspicion of writing and distributing the Zotob Windows 2000 worm may have authored more than 20 other viruses, it has emerge...

Article | 29/08/2005 Intel demos worm cut-off technology

Intel researchers have demonstrated a new hardware system designed to rapidly and automatically quarantine PCs infected with worms of viruses.

Article | 3/08/2005 Phishers hack eBay

A flaw has been discovered on eBay's website that would have allowed fraudsters to successfully redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site.

Article | 25/07/2005 Bust of Internet fraud ring produces 310 arrests

Spanish authorities are reported to have arrested 310 people as part of an international investigation into one of the Internet's most active "419" or...

Article | 20/06/2005 Study: AOL leads ISPs in "zombie" computer infections

AOL is the global network most infected with "zombie" PCs, according to a new study.

Article | 10/06/2005 Gartner slams security hype

A number of the most promoted security risks are nothing more than a load of hype, Gartner has said in an unexpected outbreak of sober assessment.

Article | 18/05/2005 Phishers force UK banks to delay payments

Four of the UK's largest banks have started delaying the time it takes to make an online bank transfer in an attempt to clamp down on phishing fraud.

Article | 17/05/2005 New IM worm infects AOL software

Users of AOL's instant messaging software, AIM, should be on the lookout for an innovative new worm, variously named "Oscarbot-B" and "Doyorg" by anti...

Article | 13/05/2005 Mastercard battles phishing fraud

MasterCard has shut down 1,400 phishing websites in the last eleven months alone, the company has revealed at its annual Global Risk Management Sympos...

Article | 6/05/2005 PDAs make a surprise comeback

Global sales of personal digital assistants (PDAs) have rebounded to record levels in the first quarter of this year, acoording to Gartner.

Article | 22/04/2005 Symbian games plagued by hidden Trojans

The number of Trojans targeting smart phones with the Symbian platform is double the number previously discovered, mobile antivirus vendor SimWorks ha...

Article | 14/03/2005 The latest security risk: Dungeons & Dragons

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have sent a clear message to would-be recruits who like playing fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons: don't bother.

Article | 1/03/2005 Biometric security in the palm of your hand

Fujitsu is launching what it claims will be the world's first biometric palm scanner, checking veins in the human hand to verify someone's identity.

Article | 25/02/2005 Windows Server still dogged by 'blue screen' bug

Microsoft has taken the unusual step of releasing an unscheduled fix for a problem that caused some PC's upgraded to Service Pack 2 (SP2) to crash in ...

Article | 10/02/2005 Symantec hit by large-scale flaw

Symantec has issued patches to fix a "high impact" security hole that affects almost every product it currently sells.