Archive for September, 2007

New Skype virus arrived yesterday, September 9, 2007, and it was capable of infecting large number of computers. It uses the same tactics as other Skype related malware: it sends random message to a victim and offers to view an erotic screensaver/picture. If someone is curious enough to click the link, he or she gets an infected file which starts to mess a computer and sends itself further to everyone on Skype contact list. More...

It has been going on for a week now: Chinese hackers were mentioned TV news, printed on the first pages of newspapers and security websites. If you still don’t now what has happened, here’s a story: German government computer systems were compromised and several cyber attacks were launched against USA and UK governments. And guess what? All the tracks lead to China, which by the way has openly discussed cyber attacks as great possibility to fight more powerful military. More...

Spyware Doctor’s scan time has remarkably decreased since the 5. 0. 5 version. More...

Aladin (a security company based in Israel) reported large scale attacks against several popular websites. The attacks were launched through botnet – a network of infected computers. These zombie computers were used to spread a trojan to random computers. More...

New type of scam appeared on the United States of America. This new type should have been expected before: this time fake email messages appeals to those who are concerned about identity theft. Needless to say the whole purpose of this scam is to steal identities. More...

Ponemon Institute made a conclusion for more than 125 separate studies and the conclusion is: the amount of spam is getting bigger and it becomes more sophisticated. However the same report reveals the other side of spam: people give away their personal information easily. It’s not a big surprise to hear that the bad guys work day and night to get around spam filters, to create more convincing spam messages, to put malicious code into places you don’t expect it to be. More...