CNET News - In a paper (PDF) presented at last month’s HotBots 2007 conference , researchers from Google say they’ve found malware downloads lurking on 1 out of every 10 Web sites visited. For this study Google analyzed 4.5 million URLs. The researchers determined

IM Attacks on The Rise
InternetNews.com - It seems like hackers go on holiday for the summer and come back with fresh attacks in the fall,” Chris Boyd, director of malware research at FaceTime Security Labs, told internetnews.com . Perhaps the hackers spent the summer brushing up on their

SanDisk, Microsoft Join to Replace U3
Beta News - Security will also play a more central role this time around, as SanDisk will offer up its TrustedFlash technology, which is designed to prevent the spread of viruses and malware. A new entity will be created by Microsoft and SanDisk to support the

IT Wrestles with Microsoft Monoculture Myopia
eWeek - As network administrators ponder the end of the worm era, for-profit malware attacks have grown dramatically. According to information culled from Microsoft’s MSRT (Malicious Software Removal Tool), the biggest threat on the desktop comes from bots

SCADA Security Pioneer Renames as Industrial Defender
ManagingAutomation.com - The centerpiece of the renamed company remains its Industrial Defender product, which is installed on premises to provide IT-based threat prevention and detection threats that can come from hackers, malware, employees, outside collaborators, and

The Full Horror of Vista
Mac Observer - Then there is the sad fact that we need to make sure all of our Windows’ anti-malware apps are kept up to date. Even with everything set as automatic as it can be made, this still involves a significant chunk of time weekly dealing with technophobes

15 Tech Myths: Busted and Confirmed
PC World - We hate to break it to you, but Bill Gates is not going to give you money just for forwarding an e-mail. Eating Pop Rocks and drinking soda at the same time won’t cause your head to explode (though we don’t recommend mixing Mentos and Diet Coke

New gang war raging on the Internet
CNET News - The primary groups are responsible for the Warezov and Zhelatin worms; these worms then download Trojans that are in turn responsible for a majority of the spam and malware circulating on the Web. Basically, new spam and new phishing attacks are

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