Security and spyware news

When we hear the word "keylogger" , malicious software comes to mind. More

You hear about scams that lurk online every day. When you see as many articles about successful phishing attempts as this year, you may think that whole online scam thing is exaggerated. More

Security researchers report a dramatic decrease of phishing emails targeting PayPal and eBay customers. More

Computer scientists of SRI International based in Menlo Park, California, have developed a program that is meant to deal with botnets, especially those belonging to Storm, the nature of which is still not clear: some say it is a Worm, other say it's a Trojan. More

Australia’s finally realizing the threats of cyber attacks to the country’s government institutions and business sector, which were attacked dozens of times this year, and now it’s raising concerns about the safety of personal and financial data of users. More

Recently Microsoft announced that it would release necessary patches for a vulnerability related to the URI protocol handling technology. More

Military and governmental systems use the Citrix technology to put up GUIs. More

A project against phishing, Phishtank, has released a report with the annual statistics on this issue. More

Sun Microsystems, the company behind Java Runtime Environment , has released an update that fixes many security flaws, indluding some that could allow hackers to compromise or steal data from unpatched systems. More

Due to a programming flaw with the "reply" function, one reply became 2.2 million replies, clogging federal inboxes of the USA. More

The recently infamous 13 month old QuickTime flaw, which Apple failed to patch in March, has finally been taken care of in Quicktime version 7.2. More

Although China has been accused of government-backed attacks , China itself has been attacked: one of the country's internet security sites contains malicious code. More

Storm isn't necessarilly the most ingenious or heinous malware circling around the net, but it is or will soon take the place of the most productive, with an estimated 1 million computers infected globally. More

Certain modems, used by Eircom customers, are vulnerable to Wired Equicalent Privacy software exploits. More

A new type of phishing scam has been noticed last week, which offers a tax refund from the US IRS . More