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BitDefender And Symantec Researchers Warns About New Worm That Spreads Through IM
A new variant of an old computer worm is being distributed via spam for IM malware. BitDefender, Symantec researchers have warned.
A short message with...
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BitDefender announces ranking of online threats for March 2010
BitDefender has released its ranking of online threats virulent identified for the month of March 2010.
The security firm BitDefender has launched its ranking...
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New worm via Facebook, Watch out for fake Facebook login page click carefuly
To bring the news and the warning Nick FitzGeraldOn AVG's official blog.
Facebook, thanks to its public and more and for some time also become
an...
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Microsoft Report Reveals Resurgence of Worms
Microsoft Corp. released the seventh volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv7), which indicates that worm infections in the enterprise rose by nearly...
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Apple “worm” writer outed
INFORMATION SECURITY Sell Out, the anonymous writer of what he claims is an Apple worm, has been identified.
According to another anonymous security Sell Out...
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Christmas IM Worm a Nasty Present
IMLogic warned Tuesday that a new instant messaging worm that attempts to get users to visit an apparently harmless Santa Claus site was making...
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Sober worm plans 5 January attack
Security outfit iDefense is reporting that the next Sober worm attack will take place on 5 January - the 87th anniversary of the founding...
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New IM worm chats with intended victims
A new worm that targets users of America Online's AOL Instant Messenger is believed to be the first that actually chats with the intended...
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New AIM Worm ‘Talks’ to Victims
A new worm on the AOL Instant Messenger service is believed to be the first that will actually "talk" with a victim in an...
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Sober worm stalls MSN, Hotmail
The pesky Sober worm is to blame for disrupting e-mail traffic between Comcast account holders and users of Microsoft-based e-mail, Redmond said on Friday....
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AIM worm plays nasty new trick
A worm found spreading via America Online's Instant Messenger is carrying a nastier punch than usual, a security company has warned.
The unnamed worm...
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Botnet operation controlled 1.5m PCs
A recently foiled botnet operation has turned out to be 15 times larger that police initially thought. On further investigation, authorities found that the...
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MicriSoft Confirms Win2K Worm Hole Patch Is Buggy
Microsoft Corp.'s patch for a worm-vulnerable security flaw in the Windows 2000 operating system is causing problems for some users. The software giant late...
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MSN-Yahoo! IM love-in could spread worms
The planned bridge between MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger has one drawback, experts warn: it could act as a conduit for a massive IM...
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Microsoft Patches ‘Critical’ Win2K Worm Hole
Microsoft Corp.'s October batch of security patches comes with a terse warning for Windows 2000 users: Pay special attention to MS05-051, a critical bulletin...
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Sober Worm Resurfaces in Wild
A new variant of the mass mailing Sober worm has surfaced in the wild, according to a threat advisory issued by McAfee Wednesday night....
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New worm spoofs Google, Yahoo and MSN sites
Security experts have discovered a malicious program aimed at tricking users into clicking on phony search results on fake Google, Yahoo and MSN sites....
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New Worm Hijacks Google Requests
PandaLabs has announced the emergence of a new worm that spreads via peer-to-peer networks including Shareaza and iMesh, which hijacks visits to Google.com and...
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Creative Zens Ship with Worms
Looks like somebody turned off the virus scanner at the Creative production plant—it would appear that about 3,700 5GB Zen Neeons shipped since July...
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Sysadmins taking brunt of blame for Windows worm attack
Sysadmins are taking a big chunk of the blame for the latest worm attacks on Windows - said to have already infected 250,000 machines.
An...
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‘Zotob’ Worm Makes Windows Rounds
A new worm has been detected spreading on unpatched Windows systems faster than previous worms, but reported infections have remained low for the moment....
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IBM says mobile devices vulnerable to viruses and worms
In 2005, cell phones, handhelds, and wireless networks will come in for aggressive attacks from viruses, worms and other security threats, IBM said in...
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New Santy Mutant Offers ‘Help’
Another mutant of the Santy worm has started squirming, this one depositing a so-called patch for vulnerable Web forums powered by the phpBB...
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New Cabir Worms Reported
Cabir, a virus that infects cell phones, has reappeared in three new variants. The virus, which spreads through the phones' Bluetooth connections, affects only...
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Santy Worm now hits AOL, Yahoo!
The Santy worm, which struck Google last week, has spawned variants that target Yahoo and AOL as well as Google.The latest variants threaten any...
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