All the news that's fit to exploit--Google Trends

" Caution: Web sites about the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team and the U.S. vice presidential debate may cause serious harm to your computer. Cybercriminals who want to steal data and take control of computers are...

Scareware: Clicker Beware

Just because it's done over the Internet, doesn't mean that no law covers it. This applies to fraud, too, of course. This sort of thing is still in the news because malware companies continue to profit on users' lack...

Instructor teaches students how to code viruses

A California computer instructor is teaching students how to code and think like a hacker, much to the chagrin of computer anti-virus companies. He says he hopes to shake up the internet security sector by teaching...

Computer security consultant charged with infecting a quarter million computers

I came across this story which was published on the US Department of Justice website today and after reading the story, I had to share this with the NowPublic community.This 26 year old has been controlling OUR computers without our knowledge for sometime now.  The thing...

Windows Users At Risk From MP3s, Multimedia Files

Another trojan virus is around. This time is uses MP3 and Multimedia files to spread it malware.   " Windows Users At Risk From MP3s, Multimedia Files Jul 18th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General Security firm TrustedSource reports that a new trojan has been...

Mmm... Malware...

Attention, Simpsons fans! If you're using AOL Instant Messenger, avoid any downloads from Chunkylover53, whihc was once an online alias for one of the show's writers. These days, it's an alias for "infect your...

OECD report on malicious software.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report titled Malicious Software (malware): a Security Threat to the Internet Economy last week on the international state of Internet security. This report, developed in collaboration with...

Computer viruses hit one million

UPDATE with how to protect your computer from viruses. Computer viruses has reached the one million mark from the first day they were born. So far, my computer has been infected by 28 of them. How's about yours?...

NZ Teen Convicted of Cyber Crime

Sophisticated teen programming whiz kids were de rigeur in the era of glamorized cyberpunk computer hackers. But what happens when hackers choose to use their supercomputing powers for evil instead of good?...

Malware and the Battle for Tibet

Those who would thwart the efforts of the free-Tibet movement have added a new weapon to their arsenal: malware. Indeed, human -rights groups have begun receiving malicious code smuggled in innocent-seeming email...

Happy New Year and Dangerous Computer Infections

lthough we're all expecting to see a rise in the number of web attacks, there are only a few weak spam campaigns currently in progress with low damage potential and pretty easy to detect malicious attachments. Security company F-Secure today found another spamattack...

Flirtbot: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

Russian chatroom denizens are falling afoul of a social-engineering chatbot that, rather than injecting malware into a target system, gets those flawed, flawed humans to divulge their personal info. "A program that...

Spyware Warning - Massive amounts of malware redirects in searches

"BREAKING: Massive amounts of malware redirects in searches We’re seeing a large amount of seeded search results which lead to malware sites. These are using common, innocent terms — one researcher landed on a...

New MSN Messenger Trojan Spreading Quickly

If you use MSN Messenger, beware. A new trojan has already infected thousands of computers by sending what looks like picture files from one of your contacts. These files, when opened infect the computer with a bot...

Its Halloween! Spooks, Specters and Spyware!

It was late, I had put off going to the Software Convention till the last minute. I just had to watch my favorite show on TV, "S-Files".  Its that episode where the Computer Salespeople all turn into Pod People and ,,,,well never mind. Its really scary!  So I'm...

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