New variant of MyDoom discovered
Wednesday January 28, 2004
A new variant of the fast spreading Mydoom worm was discovered on January 28th. Mydoom.B has a little trick up its sleeve to prevent infected parties from accessing antivirus vendor ... Read More
Mydoom, Mimail.R, Novarg, Shimg virus
Monday January 26, 2004
The Mydoom, a.k.a. Mimail.R, a.k.a. Novarg, a.k.a. Shimg virus is wasting no time spreading worldwide. So many copies of the email worm are circulating that many are calling it the ... Read More
Dumaru.Y worm has lofty financial goals
Saturday January 24, 2004
A new variant of Dumaru, discovered on January 24th, 2004, seems specifically designed to target clients of certain financial institutions, with the apparent goal of capturing valuable account information. Worse, ... Read More
FDIC phishing scheme
Friday January 23, 2004
Imagine getting an email from the FDIC that not only claimed your bank account was in jeopardy, but warned that you were under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security ... Read More
In the name of God
Friday January 23, 2004
The latest Nigerian 419 scheme, a fraudulent attempt to bilk gullible people out of their cash, does so by invoking the name of Christ and offering millions to anyone that ... Read More
Internet voting plan flawed, experts warn
Wednesday January 21, 2004
Johns Hopkins University, the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are just a few of the security experts warning that SERVE, the Secure Electronic Registration and ... Read More
Bagle worm discovered
Sunday January 18, 2004
It would seem the tersely worded email sent by the newly discovered Bagle worm would be enough to tip off potential victims. However, in spite of the email's non-existent social ... Read More
Exploit-urlspoof-b
Friday January 16, 2004
An erroneous warning about a possible computer virus is in reality a ploy to trick users into downloading malware from a China-hosted website. The link contained in the email appears ... Read More
Personal Firewall Day
Thursday January 15, 2004
Today, January 15th, is the first annual Personal Firewall Day. What does this mean to you? If you're savvy and you "get" the importance of a personal firewall, share that ... Read More
Top Windows antivirus for 2004
Tuesday January 13, 2004
A new year means new versions of antivirus software. This year, the new offerings did not disappoint, some of them offering much improved protection to holistically encompass spyware and spam ... Read More
Citibank phishing email
Sunday January 11, 2004
Since Microsoft has thus far declined to offer a patch to fix a critical flaw in Internet Explorer, a recent Citibank phishing expedition exploiting the flaw came as no surprise ... Read More
Organized crime and your PC
Saturday January 10, 2004
In their ThreatLab 2003 Retrospective: The Year the Mafia Moved In, Clearswift's Pete Simpson looks at the virus arena from the perspective of a wide angle lens. The resulting snapshot ... Read More
Xombe Trojan masquerades as XP patch
Friday January 9, 2004
Antivirus vendors warn of a malicious email that was mass-mailed to users on January 8th or 9th. The email pretends to be from Microsoft and instructs users to udpate their ... Read More
2003: Year of the Black Sheep...
Wednesday January 7, 2004
...and a real virus mess
It seems appropriate that the Chinese dubbed 2003 as the Year of the Black Sheep. Among other things, the sheep is a symbol of untidiness - ... Read More
The high cost of "free"
Tuesday January 6, 2004
Has this ever happened to you? One day you're browsing the Internet as normal. The next day your browser's homepage has been changed to some off-color site and your desktop ... Read More