Move over all you unsolicited ads for Vicodin and Viagra. Make way senders of ads for phony Rolex watches and new mortgages. You are about to share in-box space with something much more ethereal. Spiritual spam is on the rise. Managed e-mail and Internet security firm MessageLabs has spotted an emer...
Some Internet security experts don't place much hope for pending antiphishing legislation to do much to prevent ID theft and related scams. They view the prospect of new laws as being too little, too late to stop an out-of-control problem. Phishing scams trick e-mail recipients into clicking a link ...
Viruses and spam -- and the techniques used to create, disguise and distribute both -- are converging into a single threat in which the two computer disruptions depend on one another in a sort of symbiotic manner, according to security experts. Security firm MessageLabs highlighted the convergence i...
MessageLabs, Sophos and Keynote Systems have released alerts about the new W32.MyDoom.O worm variant that has been circulating the Internet today and causing traffic slowdowns. This latest variant in the MyDoom virus family was first identified by MessageLabs at 4:40 ET July 26th 2004. "Sadly, peopl...
The reports about the worm, a variant of a Web attack called MyDoom, came as outages on the search site Google.com hit in the United States, France and Great Britain. In many places the site was said to be working normally.
Viruses delivered by e-mail, phishing attacks and spam are becoming as much a part of using computers as accidents, tolls and bumper-to-bumper delays on the freeway are in commuting to work each day. Both situations cause frustration, steal productivity and cost money. Phishing scams trick e-mail re...
It appears writing viruses is becoming as easy as ABC, particularly given the deluge of worm variants in the Bagle, Netsky and Phatbot families. But the collections of worms are causing some confusion among virus fighters as well as increased danger for users. The latest example is the Bagle.Z varia...
If one thing is definite about Internet security and worm attacks, say experts, it is that cyber attacks are on the rise in 2004. Consider the worldwide effect of highly publicized worms like last year's SoBig series and the recent Sinit Trojan and MyDoom outbreaks. Given the potency of some of thes...
The past year has had no shortage of costly and complicating computer viruses and worms -- SoBig, Swen, Klez and Yaha, among others -- but what might be more troubling is the intersection of these attacks with the world of spam, which not only is pouring on in quantity, but also is carrying more des...
In response to what is being called the fastest-spreading computer virus of all time, SCO Group -- targeted by the MyDoom worm's estimated 3 million infected machines in a planned denial-of-service (DoS) attack scheduled for February 1st -- is offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to th...
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