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- Google: Malware Sites on the Upswing
- New statistics released by search giant Google indicate that it is crawling an ever-growing number of URLs that somehow seek to infect end users' computers. Despite that fact, the search market leader claims that it is delivering fewer nefarious sites in its search results, thereby shielding greater numbers of Web...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Web-based malware infections rise rapidly, stats show
- The number of Web sites hosting malicious software, either intentionally or unwittingly, is rising rapidly, according to statistics to be released on Tuesday from Dasient.More than 640,000 Web sites and about 5.8 million pages are infected with malware, according to Dasient, which was founded by former Googlers to offer services...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Microsoft's IE 8 Effective at Blocking Phishing, Malware, Report Says
- Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 is more effective at blocking both phishing sites and socially engineered malware than Firefox, Safari and other browsers, say two new reports from NSS Labs. Microsoft is pushing its community to upgrade from Internet Explorer 6 and 7 to the new browser, which it says can...
- News items 2009-08-17
- IE8 whips rivals in blocking malware sites
- Computerworld - Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 8 again trounced rival browsers in a test of their malware-blocking abilities, catching 81% of attack code-infected sites, according to a testing company. IE8's skills at sniffing out malware sites improved by 17% since March, said Rick Moy, president of NSS Labs, the firm...
- News items 2009-08-14
- Mac Game: Art project or malware?
- The Lose/Lose game warns players before they launch the application that they are likely to have files deleted.(Credit: Lose/Lose)As part of his Master of Fine Arts thesis project, Zach Gage wrote a game to run on Macintosh computers that resembles Space Invaders, but with a digital roulette twist -- for...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Gumblar malware's home domain is active again
- IDG News Service - ScanSafe researchers are seeing renewed activity regarding Gumblar, a multifunctional piece of malware that spreads by attacking PCs visiting hacked Web pages. Gumblar can steal FTP credentials as well as hijack Google searches, replacing results on infected computers with links to other malicious sites. When the...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Kaspersky tool detects malware in Twitter links
- Kaspersky unveiled a new tool on Thursday called "Krab Krawler" that analyzes the millions of tweets posted on Twitter every day and blocks any malware associated with them.The tool looks at every public post as it appears on Twitter, extracts any URLs in them and analyzes the Web page they...
- News items 2009-10-30
- New malware emerges for jailbroken iPhones
- A new worm targeting the iPhone was recently identified, and security experts believe it is the most sophisticated malware yet to target the popular smartphone.The malware, called iBotnet.A, attempts to steal online banking credentials and is capable of spreading across a network and hijacking the iPhone and iPod Touch for...
- News items 2009-11-23
- Fetch as Googlebot and Malware Details in Webmaster Tools Labs
- The Google Webmaster Tools is taking the "Labs" route of introducing and testing new features. And they just rolled out two new Webmaster Tools Labs features - Fetch as Googlebot and Malware Details. Malware details makes it easier to determine which pages on your site is distributing malware by providing...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Snow Leopard's Secret Anti-Malware Feature
- Posted by: Stephen Wildstrom on August 27 Snow Leopard, the new version of Apple's Mac operating system, is sufficiently short on new user features that Apple wouldn't have hidden one of the more significant additions. But that's exactly what they've done, presumably because it conflicts with the company's marketing message....
- News items 2009-08-27
- Fake LinkedIn profiles promise prurient pics, send patsies malware instead
- With the mobility of employees and the ease with which external devices can be brought in and out of a network, continuing to build your security plan for network servers and clients is a must. Fortunately, there is much that organizations can do to protect themselves from attacks - internal...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Live Webcast: Web Attacks: How Hackers Create and Spread Malware
- The web has become the key vector for online attacks and even trusted websites are no longer safe. With hackers continually changing tactics, the majority of businesses are left unprotected against modern web-based malware. Businesses can no longer get by with just protecting their email and endpoint systems. ...
- Webcasts 2009-11-16
- Crude Michelle Obama image dumped by site owner
- The owner of the Web site that had published an offensive caricature of Michelle Obama has removed the image, and it is disappearing from Google Image Search. First Lady Michelle Obama, on 60 Minutes last November.(Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET)Google took out an ad earlier this week above Google Image...
- News items 2009-11-25
- Do You Have Malware or Just Crappy Code? Google Will Tell You
- Nothing will scare a web site marketer more than either of these two situations: 1. Google flagging your site: "This site may harm your computer" 2. Seeing exactly how your site looks to Google's spider Well, Google has announced two new Webmaster Tools Labs features that help with either of...
- News items 2009-10-13
- A site to see.(Technofile)(internet security)(Brief article)
- AS THE NUMBER OF Internet-based threats grows, it becomes more and more difficult to assign a single name to malicious code. Spyware, malware, crimeware--what word can be used to describe a whole galaxy of threats? A new Web site established by experts at several top universities...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Twitter (Finally) Starts Protecting Users From Malicious Links
- With people sharing millions of links on Twitter—and often through URL-shorteners like bit.ly that mask their final destination—spammers and hackers have been able to drive tons of traffic to malicious sites. Whether it's a fake link to a celebrity sex tape, or a "get thousands of followers quickly" scam,...
- External links 2009-08-03
- Adobe Flash Security Model Permits Malware
- The flaw involves a way to exploit the same-origin policy of Adobe Flash to upload and serve malicious files. "The short version of all this, of course, is that if I can convince a server to serve up a file on my behalf, I can use that...
- News items 2009-11-12
- Kaspersky Lab Introduces Enhanced VirusList Weblog; Leading Anti-Virus Lab Brings Weblog Readers In-Depth & Timely Virus and Malware Research, Updates and Analysis
- WOBURN, Mass. -- Kaspersky Lab, home of one of the world's foremost Internet security labs, today presents a new version of Viruslist.com, its online virus information resource. The new Viruslist.com is designed to provide Internet users with the vital and timely information necessary to safely operate in today's environment of...
- Research articles 2005-04-26
- WestWorld Productions Launches New Security-Focused Web Site
- WestWorld Productions, Inc., announced today the launch of Storage & Security ( www.StorageandSecurityOnline.com ), an online publication dedicated to providing the latest information on the technologies shaping the computer security industry. Storage & Security will focus on providing the latest information for securing data. Content will provide...
- Research articles 2007-08-14
- Google Launches New Webmaster Tools
- Google has launched a couple of new Labs features for Webmaster Tools. One is "malware details" and the other is "fetch as googlebot."Google is providing snippets of code from pages it considers malware, in order to help webmasters eliminate the malware on their sites quickly."To help protect users against malware...
- News items 2009-10-13
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