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Symantec saw a 265% increase in malware attacks in 2008 according to their Internet Security Report XIV published today. The figure was 1,656227, up from 624,627 in 2007 which was up from 140,690 in 2006. One of the most common forms of attack is to exploit...
A critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer is being actively attacked by cyber criminals, Trend Micro reports. Although Microsoft issued a patch to seal this last week, it is still vulnerable by reverse engineering the patch. Although the attacks are...
Amid the glow of red faces, Kaspersky’s Roel Schouwenberg admitted that their database of 2500 customers email addresses and 25,000 authenticating codes located in the support part of usa.kaspersky.com had been hacked. He admitted that the site had been...
The web based threats we face today have exploded in numbers. In 1988, there were 1,738 different malware threats; in the first 2 months of 2008, we faced 1.1 million. Trend Micro have come up with a new way of protecting against them. The “ Smart Protection...
With the increase in malicious attacks on IT systems, especially virus attacks, it is vitally important to keep your clients security up-to-date. Web based e-mail such as Yahoo and Gmail is not scanned the way employees Exchange mail is. Consequently...
Google's analysis of spamming activities indicate that they have increased hundred and 50% in the last two months, as the spammers have now found alternative web hosts following November’s closing of McColo Corp. With security experts estimating that...
Microsoft is urging users to download the KB958644 Security update , to help stop the spread of Conficker. According to the BBC today, the worm uses a weakness in the autoplay function in Vista and early versions of Windows 7 beta to load from infected...
In late November 2007 a new .DLL worm was detected as WORM_DOWNAD.A. Also known as Conficker and Downadup has been able to build the largest botnet on record thanks to the length of time it is taking network administrators to apply security patches. Despite...
With so much security software around, it is sometimes difficult to decide which brand to use. I installed Trend Micro Internet Security on my home computers several years ago, following annoying experiences with both Symantec and Norton. Like all security...
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