The amount of cyber-criminal activity associated with the Zeus family of financial Trojan programs has increased during the past few months, according to security researchers from anti-virus vendor Trend Micro. “The notorious ...
Tags: anti-virus, banking, BitDefender, Bogdan Botezatu, Citadel, CNME
Mobile devices are getting hit by a boom in malware similar to the one that hit PCs starting with the rise of the Web, a security software executive said Tuesday. "Mobile platforms, for a lot of attackers, represent a new target-rich ...
Tags: Mobile Malware, Computer Products, Android
Twitter has reached a settlement with Skootle that prohibits the Tennessee-based company from spamming Twitter users' feeds with marketing and other promotional content. The case, which dates back to a lawsuit that Twitter brought against ...
Security researchers from Damballa have found a new variant of the Pushdo malware that's better at hiding its malicious network traffic and is more resilient to coordinated takedown efforts. The Pushdo Trojan program dates back to early ...
Tags: Pushdo Botnet, Takedown Attempts
The Android threat landscape is growing in both size and complexity with cybercriminals adopting new distribution methods and building Android-focused malware services, according to a report from Finnish security vendor F-Secure. The ...
Tags: Android, Computer Products
According to Kaspersky Lab’s latest spam report, spammers are reverting to old tricks in order to avoid detection from spam filters. One such method being employed by spammers during Q1 2013, Kaspersky said, was the use of ...
Tags: Computer Products, Tricks, Spammers
While moving storage to the cloud via off-premise data centres is becoming a popular choice even for operations as small as a school, Wellington College in Berkshire has recently seen results with some good, old-fashioned data-crunching. ...
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Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center ...
Teaching engineers cyber security skills is vital in order to protect the UK's critical national infrastructure, according to cyber expert at the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Hugh Boyes. The IET is trying to raise ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
A 35-year-old Dutch man suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on antispam organization Spamhaus was extradited from Spain to the Netherlands on Monday evening, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said Wednesday. A judge in ...
Tags: software, Computer Products
This week was a week for email milestones.?Spam – that scourge of the Internet – turned 35 years old. And Microsoft pulled the plug on its hoary webmail service Hotmail. The first spam message sent on?what was to become the ...
Consumers' home PCs were no safer than they were last year, our annual State of the Net survey found. Heavy spam afflicted 43 percent of those surveyed. We've used our survey to extrapolate the number of consumers affected nationally. ...
A 35-year-old Dutch man was arrested Thursday in Spain, as part of an investigation into a large-scale DDoS attack that targeted a spam-fighting organization called the Spamhaus Project in March. The suspect was arrested by Spanish ...
Tags: Computer Products, DDoS Attack
The man suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on an anti-spam organisation that caused intermittent Internet hiccups drove around Spain in a van he used as a mobile office, Spain's Interior Ministry said Sunday. The van was ...
A Dutch citizen arrested in Spain on suspicion of launching what is described as the biggest cyberattack in internet history operated from a bunker and had a van capable of hacking into networks anywhere in the country, officials say. The ...
Tags: Cyberattack, Computer Products