Storm Worm uses e-cards to push spam near all-time high
Spam — spearheaded by a Storm Worm-related spike in malicious e-card messages — has driven the level of junk messages to more than eight in 10 emails.
Spam — spearheaded by a Storm Worm-related spike in malicious e-card messages — has driven the level of junk messages to more than eight in 10 emails.
Sourcefire announced today that it has acquired open-source anti-virus project ClamAV.
Users of Yahoo’s instant messaging platform are being warned to avoid webcam invites from unknown sources after a vulnerability in the platform was disclosed this week.
Citrix announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire XenSource, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based virtual infrastructure solutions provider.
More than four in 10 users of the Facebook social networking site give up personal information after simple inquiries, according to a study released today by anti-virus vendor Sophos.
Microsoft announced Thursday that it will release nine patches — six of them deemed critical — on Tuesday, just a day after a vulnerability for Windows was revealed.
The bad guys are in a creative crisis, and unable to conjure up new attacks to target networks, according to Kaspersky Labs most recent quarterly Malware Evolution report.
Traditional image spam is again on the decrease, but attachment spam – containing images as part of Microsoft Office files – is on the upswing, according to Symantec’s “State of Spam” report for August.
End-users have a 25-percent chance of becoming a cybercrime victim, according to Consumer Reports State of the Net survey for 2007.
VeriSign, the digital certificate vendor responsible for the internet's .com and .net domains, suffered a data breach last month when a laptop was stolen from an employee's vehicle.