New malware is spreading via Christmas and holiday greetings, security researchers said today, a tactic reminiscent of those used last season by the notorious Storm Trojan horse. Researchers at the Bach Khoa Internetwork Security Center in Hanoi

Photo frames bundle malware with holiday cheer - Ars Technica
There’s nothing quite like waking up on your holiday of choice to the gift of a shiny new gadget that adorned your wishlist for the last couple of months only to find out that, upon plugging it into your PC, it attempts to install a virus

Holiday themed based Malware courtesy of Fast-flux - Thetech Herald
With little more than three days before Christmas, criminals are boosting efforts to spread a different kind of Holiday cheer. Picking up where the Storm botnet left off, the new wave of Email-based Social Engineering uses the pending Holiday theme

Malware threat to Iphones and Google handsets grows - The Inquirer
T HERE’S A growing threat to Android and Apple handsets, says security specialist, ESET . It is also predicting a rise in Windows malware. These including proof-of-concept attacks and attacks against Webkit-based browsers found in Iphone and Google

Malware Mobilizes - Unstrung.com
It is not difficult to search the Internet for a Website that attempts to explain away mobile malware by stating that the number of mobile malware attacks ranks significantly behind that of the number of malicious attacks against PCs. However, that

Report: Smartphones Need Malware Protection - Digitaltrends.com
A new report from Unstrung’s research service finds smartphones need better malware protection and expects everyone to get in on the act. A new report from Unstrung ’s paid research service Unstrung Insider finds that smartphones need stronger

Gmail notice touts Chrome and Firefox, dismisses IE - Infoworld
Google is pushing users of its Gmail e-mail service to dump Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for its own Chrome browser or Mozilla ’s Firefox . When users of IE6 reach Gmail.com, a “Get faster Gmail” message appears in the Web-based service’s menu bar

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