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Article | 29/12/2008 Samsung shipped infected digital picture frames
For the second year in a row, some of those digital photo frames lying under the Christmas tree may come with a nasty surprise.
Article | 29/12/2008 Microsoft kicks fake security software off 400,000 PCs
In the second month of a campaign against fake security software, Microsoft has booted the rogue application "Antivirus 2009" from almost 400,000 PCs,...
Article | 29/12/2008 Fake Christmas, holiday greetings spread new malware
New malware is spreading via Christmas and holiday greetings, security researchers said last week, a tactic reminiscent of those used last season by t...
Article | 23/12/2008 Researchers sound alarm about bug in free antivirus scanner
A bug in Trend Micro's free online virus scanning service can be used by hackers to hijack Windows PCs running Internet Explorer, security researchers...
Article | 19/12/2008 As phishing evolves, criminals switch to malware
The scammers began to see serious problems with their phishing scams sometime around April.
Article | 17/12/2008 Auditor: IRS doesn't check cyberaudit logs
The US Internal Revenue Service's IT staff hasn't routinely checked its cybersecurity audit logs, according to a report released this week by the agen...
Article | 18/12/2008 Yahoo to scrub personal data after three months
Yahoo said Wednesday it will anonymize most of the data it collects about people's Web searches after three months, a move that could put further pres...
Article | 17/12/2008 Microsoft preps emergency IE patch for release
Microsoft will issue an emergency patch on Wednesday to quash a critical bug in Internet Explorer (IE) that attackers have been exploiting for more th...
Article | 16/12/2008 Apple patches 21 Mac OS X vulnerabilities
Apple Monday patched 21 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, including seven flaws in Flash that the popular media player's maker, Adobe Systems, fixed more t...
Article | 15/12/2008 Security vendors leaving old-school malware detection behind
Step 1: Identify a computer virus specimen. Step 2: Create a "signature" to detect and eradicate the virus, and push the signature file out to a compu...
Article | 12/12/2008 Intel, Ericsson team up on mobile security for laptops
Intel and Ericsson are offering to protect lost or stolen laptops by sending an SMS (Short Message Service) to the laptop will render it useless to th...
Article | 12/12/2008 HP, Symantec warn employees after laptop thefts
Technology vendors Hewlett-Packard and Symantec are warning employees that their names and Social Security numbers may have recently fallen into crimi...
Article | 11/12/2008 Microsoft confirms newest IE bug went unpatched yesterday
Microsoft today said it's investigating reports of a new unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) that did not get patched in yesterday's mas...
Article | 10/12/2008 Microsoft issues mammoth security update
Microsoft this week patched 28 vulnerabilities, nearly all of them marked "critical," in the biggest update since it switched to a regular monthly upd...
Article | 10/12/2008 Spam levels climb as criminals replace crippled botnets
Four weeks after spam levels plummeted when a rogue hosting company was yanked off the Internet, junk mail volumes are again up, a researcher said Tue...
Article | 9/12/2008 Malware most often spread by visiting malicious Web sites
Computer users are their own worst enemies, a security company warned Monday as it released data that showed software bugs were the source of just 5 p...
Article | 5/12/2008 MS slates 8 bug updates for year's final Patch Tuesday
Microsoft will deliver eight security updates next week, six of them marked "critical," to plug holes in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and other ...
Article | 5/12/2008 Apple yanks antivirus advice from its Web site
Apple late Tuesday yanked a controversial support document from its Web site that had urged Mac users to run antivirus software because the recommenda...
Article | 5/12/2008 Microsoft targets auctions in counterfeit crackdown
Microsoft continues to crack down on people it believes are counterfeiting and selling its software. On Thursday the company will add another 63 legal...
Article | 5/12/2008 Record growth in malware in 2008: F-Secure
The year 2008 has seen another record of explosive growth in the amount of malicious software (malware) on the Internet, according to F-Secure.

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