AP - THE BOTNET: The so-called Mariposa botnet was made up of as many as 12.7 million virus-infected personal computers. Malcious software on those machines stole credit card numbers and online banking credentials.
Publ.Date : Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:29:01 GMT
PC World - A new security hole in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 can be targeted via code on a poisoned Web site, Microsoft warned today. A successful attacker could install malware on a victim PC or run any other remote command.
Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:49:00 GMT
PC Magazine - In his keynote at the RSA conference Tuesday, Microsoft's Scott Charney, corporate vice president of their Trustworthy Computing Group, raised several ideas for improving the general security of users on the Internet. One was to bring outside administration to consumer PCs.
Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:58:29 GMT
AFP - Microsoft on Tuesday warned that hackers are targeting a freshly-uncovered weakness in some earlier versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser software.
Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:10:49 GMT
AFP - US government cybersecurity efforts are being hampered by a need to better define the roles of the agencies responsible for defending against cyber threats, a US Congressional watchdog said Friday.
Publ.Date : Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:03:09 GMT
NewsFactor - Spanish authorities say they have nabbed the hackers behind the Mariposa botnet. The botnet, which was developed for large-scale theft of information, took control of more than 13 million computers in 190 nations.
Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:04:52 GMT
Reuters - Militant groups, foreign states and criminal organizations pose a growing threat to U.S. security as they target government and private computer networks, FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Thursday.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:46:58 GMT
AFP - Internet crime in Japan jumped to a new record last year, led by ID theft and database attacks, child pornography posts and copyright violations, the national police agency said Thursday.
Publ.Date : Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:58:32 GMT
NewsFactor - Some Windows PC users may hope the Energizer bunny didn't keep going and going. It turns out the Energizer DUO USB battery charger is a vehicle for attacks on PCs, according to the Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
Publ.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:06:28 GMT
AFP - Spanish police said Wednesday they had arrested three men suspected of building the world's biggest network of virus-infected computers which hijacked more than 13 million PCs.
Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:44:19 GMT
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