The backdoor left in place by MyDoom.O infections appears to be deliberately targeted and exploited by the same author, via the newly discovered Zindos worm. The new worm seeks out ... Read More

A new variant of MyDoom was discovered on July 26, 2004. Antivirus vendors are split on what to call it. Antivirus vendors Sophos and McAfee refer to the variant as ... Read More

Newsgroup miscreants are posting links to alleged pictures of an Osama bin Laden hanging, claiming the photos are from CNN journalists. In reality, there is no photo, simply a backdoor ... Read More

This week, federal prosecutors indicted yet another hacker found guilty of breaking into Acxiom servers and stealing their 'customer management information' (spam lists). Ironically, Acxiom, which collects vast amounts of ... Read More

Nigerian 419 schemes are quite old, dating back to pre-Internet days when the scam was carried out via fax. Basically, someone (usually from Nigeria or South Africa), claims to be ... Read More

Antivirus vendors are warning that the newly discovered Bagle.AI worm poses a medium threat to users. Like its predecessor, Bagle.AG, the Bagle.AI worm is a mass-mailing email and filesharing worm ... Read More

Bagle.AG, a.k.a. Beagle.AC (Symantec), is a mass-mailing email worm that opens a backdoor on infected systems and attempts to shutdown a wide range of security software. Bagle.AG description

When antivirus vendor BitDefender published details concerning terrorist connections with the recently discovered Atak.B worm, antivirus vendor McAfee was quick to attack. Who was right? Full Story

A new variant of the Bagle worm was discovered on July 15, 2004. Dubbed Bagle.AF, early reports indicate the worm is being seen in several locales in high numbers. Bagle.AF description

Spybot Search and Destroy, a.k.a. Spybot-S&D (or just plain Spybot), is one of the most capable anti-spyware packages available. It is also free. Developed by Patrick M. Kolla of PepsiMK, ... Read More

Evaman is a mass-mailing email worm that harvests addresses from a public Yahoo database. Though the worm is considered a low risk, it does raise some interesting questions about Yahoo's ... Read More