It seems the promise of private (and presumed) nude photos of strangers may be too much for some folks to resist. The Mimail.C worm was discovered on October 31st and ... Read More

Trend Micro's latest offering is packed full of pleasant surprises. Their already stellar antivirus protection has been expanded to prevent everything from credit card theft to spam. But the biggest ... Read More

A mass-mailing email worm that seems to have little going for it - bad English, no special tricks, and obviously executable attachments - nonetheless seems to have no trouble picking ... Read More

Emails falsely claiming to be from the likes of Citibank, NatWest, and other reputable banking entities attempt to entice recipients into divulging their ATM/Debit card and PIN numbers. A recent ... Read More

A whopping 85% of computers in China were infected with viruses this year, according to a survey performed by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security. Antivirus vendor Sophos reports on ... Read More

Reputable firms such as eBay and PayPal have been besieged by email scammers attempting to pilfer valuable credit card details from unsuspecting customers. Here's how to ferret out these scams. Full ... Read More

It seems Aaron Caffrey, the teen accused of launching a digital attack against a U.S. seaport's navigation system, successfully defended his claim that his PC was hijacked by a Trojan. ... Read More

Microsoft has issued a critical patch to resolve a vulnerability in the Windows Messenger service which could allow an attacker to remotely run malicious code. Disabling the Messenger service is ... Read More

Want to get even with the viruses, hackers, and spammers that plague your system? Kaspersky Labs has released version II of their popular Virus Hunter online game. I had ... Read More

A teen accused of launching a digital attack against a U.S. seaport's navigation system claims his PC was hijacked by a Trojan...read more

We have just charged your credit card for money laundry service in amount of $234.65 ... Yeah. Right. Sadly, though, the scam continues to thrive so somebody must be responding. ... Read More

Van T. Dinh, a 19 year old Drexel University student , faced losses after making a speculative deal on Cisco stock. To prevent those losses, Van Dinh tricked another investor ... Read More

SunnComm CEO Peter Jacobs has decided not to sue a Princeton student who defeated their CD copyright technology with the simple press of the Shift key. "I don't want ... Read More

SunnComm is threatening to sue a Princeton student for releasing details of a flaw in their CD copyright protection software. SummComm alleges, "Halderman and Princeton University have significantly damaged SunnComm's ... Read More

SOFTWIN, producer of BitDefender - one of the antivirus Top Picks - has announced the opening of its new office in Germany. Martin Siemens, former CEO of H+BEDV, has been ... Read More

Computer Associates has a new online scanner that is incredibly quick and easy to use. The scanner will initially update its signatures, if necessary, then present a tree of drives ... Read More

British high-tech crime investigators are looking for clues in viral code to determine if any of the miscreant creations are linked to organized crime or terrorist groups. The NHTCU hopes ... Read More

California film-maker Marcy Levitas Hamilton has initiated a class action suit against Microsoft, blaming them for her security problems. The lawsuit just happens to coincide with, and borrow language from, ... Read More

A mysterious new Trojan, dubbed QHosts-1 (a.k.a. Delude.B), has been responsible for several recent drive-by DNS "hijackings". The exploit results from a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that allows malicious attackers ... Read More