Viruses And Malware

VIDEO: Get Safe Online Week 2009 begins

Get out your bunting - Get Safe Online week 2009 has officially begun. Get Safe Online is an initiative between the government, the Serious Organised Crime Agency and various private sector partners which aims to educate individuals and small businesses on how to keep...

iPhone gets Rick Astley virus

It seems like viruses for the iPhone are on the increase, following the discovery of a security hole by a Dutch hacker. A worm has popped up that appears to be infecting jailbroken handsets in Australia.

The Ikee worm doesn't do anything terribly malicious - it...

The A to Z of cyber crime

The profile of the hacker has changed dramatically since their first appearance on the consumer internet radar 20 or so years ago and, with it, so has the nature of their crime. Whereas online attacks were anarchic attempts to undermine the system, what we've seen these...

Tips for creating a strong password

With Google confirming that a large number of passwords to its email accounts have been stolen in an "industry-wide phishing scheme", which affects Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and a number of other service providers, there is no better time to change your password...

New AVG 9.0 available this month

AVG Technologies has announced that its next free and paid-for internet security products, AVG 9.0, will be available this month.

"Significant enhancements" in speed see a 50% faster boast, while levels of protection, ease of use and end user experience are...

Microsoft's free antivirus now available

Microsoft's free antivirus package, "Microsoft Security Essentials", is now available to anyone, just over three months after it went into a beta test period in June that was limited to US users.

But now everyone can grab the bare-bones security package from...

Microsoft's free antivirus software nears public release

Microsoft's free antivirus product, "Security Essentials", is leaving beta and a final version will be released "in the coming weeks", according to an email sent to participants in the beta test.

Although it's not been officially available in the UK, British...

Symantec launches Norton 2010 products

Following the beta releases earlier in the year, Symantec has now officially launched its 2010 Norton products.

Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010 get new security tech, codenamed "Quorum", for what's said to be fast detection of ever-changing...

Snow Leopard includes antivirus software?

If rumours are true, then the next version of OS X - Snow Leopard - contains baked-in antivirus software. A screenshot has surfaced of a DMG downloaded by Safari being stopped in its tracks by the operating system.

The dialog box names the virus as "OSX.RSPlug.A"...

Changes to some tag homepages and feeds

As we continue to tidy up the database and make the site work better for you, we are changing the names of a handful of categories.

As a result, if you are subscribed to the RSS feed it will stop working and you will have to tweak the url in your feed reader....

First SMS trojan identified - "Sexy Space"

Malware defence company F-Secure has identified three Chinese companies as being behind the "Sexy Space" trojan. The virus, which got through the Symbian Foundation's digital signing process, spreads itself by text message.

For applications to work on S60 handsets,...

Norton Internet Security and AntiVirus 2010 betas available

Symantec has released Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010 betas ahead of their official launch in autumn 2009.

Offering a new protection model, codenamed "Quorum", the new software features new "reputation-based security technologies" that...

Experts say websites should no longer mask passwords

Two leading security and UI experts have said that websites should stop the practice of masking passwords as users type them in, as it doesn't improve security, but does impede the user experience.

Jakob Nielsen and Bruce Schneier say that the masking process...

VIDEO: New Twitter threats identified

Two new Twitter security threats have been revealed, as users of the micro-blogging site appear to be increasingly targeted for malware attacks.

Sophos brings news that Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account has been used to spread malware that targets both Windows...

Microsoft Security Essentials not available in Britain

We brought you the news that Microsoft's free security software, codenamed "Morro" would launch very soon - and it has - but not for those in the UK.

The Microsoft Security Essentials beta is now available now in the US for download for Windows XP, Windows...

Worm attacks greedy Twitter users

Twitter users are being targeted in a new scam that promises to dramatically increase the number of their Twitter followers.

Twitter users may see a tweet in their stream that reads. "OMG I just got over 1000 followers today from http://twittercut.com".

D-Link adds CAPTCHAs to routers

D-Link says it has become the world's first company to add CAPTCHA to its home routers, which is says provides an extra level of security for its users.

As most of you will know, a CAPTCHA, graphical authentication technology, is a challenge response test that...

17-year-old admits to Twitter StalkDaily worm

“I am aware of the attack and yes I am behind this attack”, said Mikey Mooney a 17-year-old programmer who did it out of boredom, sending users to a website which he was trying to promote.

The comments, made to newswire service BNO come as Twitter says that...

Twitter compromised by StalkDaily attack

Twitter has been compromised by a virus the micro blogging service is reporting.

"Earlier today we were informed of a malicious site that was spreading links to StalkDaily.com on Twitter without user consent via a cross-site scripting vulnerability. We’ve taken...

Mac users warned of web-based malware

Sophos is warning Apple Mac users to "be on their guard" against websites hosting malicious code designed to infect their systems.

This follows the discovery of a new version of the OS X/RSPlug Trojan horse that is being distributed via a legitimate-looking...

Auctiva infected with Trojan virus

Auctiva.com, a web site that offers eBay auction tools, has infected user's PCs with a Trojan virus. The malware was detected by Google that displayed warnings to users.

"It appears the reason these virus alert warnings started showing up on our site is because...

Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for Conficker conviction

Microsoft has announced a $250,000 reward for information that results in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the Conficker worm.

Part of a wider announcement that sees Microsoft in partnership with tech industry leaders and academia in a coordinated,...

Pirated iWork 09 could contain Trojan horse

Mac users who've chosen to avoid the £54 price tag for Apple's newly announced iWork 09 software suite could get a nasty surprise.

Intego, a company that specialises in security software for the Mac, has discovered a Trojan horse, the OSX.Trojan.iServices.A....

Hacker puts message in Trojan for Microsoft

An unnamed Russian hacker has sent Microsoft's Windows "Defender" team a message written into the code of a malicious Trojan horse program.

The message was found in a variation of "Win32/Zlob", a Trojan program that tricks its victims into installing it on...

London hospitals hit by computer virus

A virulent computer virus is causing mayhem at three major London hospitals.

The virus has already defeated It staff at St Bartholomew's, The Royal London and the London Chest Hospital after striking on Monday, and now the computer systems have had to be shut...