Mac OS X vulnerabilities jump 228 percent in three years
Security experts warned today that malware attacks targeting Macintosh OS X are on the rise – and by no small margin.
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Russian virus exchange creator jailed
Russian authorities have jailed a hacker who not only created his own malware, but ran two websites distributing more than 4,000 different computer viruses.
Postini study: IM attacks jump sharply
Instant messaging (IM) attacks jumped sharply during April, while spam and virus volumes held steady, new threat assessment data from Postini has revealed.
Vietnamese DDos attacker arrested
A Vietnamese man accused of launching a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a commercial website was arrested by local authorities.
MessageLabs: U.S. top malware nation
U.S. hackers account for more malware, spam and phishing attacks than those in any other nation, new research has claimed.
U.K. Cabinet Office backs security enhanced Linux
Steve Marsh, director of the U.K. government’s Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA), has announced that IBM, and its partners Tresys Technology and Belmin Group, are working with the U.K. Cabinet Office to demonstrate one of the first mainstream mandatory access control (MAC) environments. The design is based upon Security Enhanced Linux and IBM WebSphere.
MessageLabs gains U.K. quality award
The MessageLabs Anti-Virus Service was awarded the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA) Claims Tested (CCT) mark – a U.K. government quality award initiative for information security products and services.
Quiz: Web users blind to spyware
Internet users who think websites with clean, appealing graphics and national advertisers on their home pages are safe need to think again, as such seemingly respectable sites often harbor malware, according to a pop quiz on spyware.
U.K. squeezes BlackBerry security
CESG – the information assurance arm of the U.K. government communication headquarters (GCHQ) yesterday granted approval for government employees to use BlackBerry devices from Canadian vendor Research In Motion (RIM) to handle restricted data.
E-crime experts warn of ‘enemy within’
A new survey revealed today that almost half of global e-crime experts believe the biggest threat to organizations’ data comes from “the enemy within,” rather than external hackers.
