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No sooner did Microsoft make Windows 7 RC available for download, than pirated versions began to appear through Torrents and news groups. The only problem is that they are infected with malware Trojans aimed at recruiting the infected computer to a criminal botnet. Even worse, the Trojans are so deeply...

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 website vulnerabilities of popular, trusted...

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 quite primitive at the moment (they are initiated...

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 vulnerable for 10 days before hackers posted a...

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 employees can inadvertently download malicious code...

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 USB sticks and other removable drivers. The worm...

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 the fact that Microsoft issued a patch to deal...