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Tuesday, 28. November 2006, 04:09:24
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Friday, 10. November 2006, 21:34:20

A virus is a program which replicate by copying itself, either exactly, or in a modified form, into another piece of executable code. Viruses can use many types of hosts, some of the most common are :
Thursday, 9. November 2006, 03:16:20
Virus hoax messages are all too familiar to most email users. One of the main reasons for this is that they play on peoples ignorance - users are understandably concerned about viruses, and so consider it 'helpful' if, as suggested by the majority of hoaxes, they forward the message to all contacts in their address book.
Tuesday, 7. November 2006, 20:07:55
Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have advised Mac OS X users not to panic following the discovery of a new proof-of-concept virus.
The worm, dubbed OSX/Macarena, has caused headlines in the press because new Macintosh malware is so rarely encountered compared to malicious code designed for Windows PCs. At the time of writing Sophos has received no reports of any customers who have encountered the malware, and only source code versions have been uncovered.
Tuesday, 31. October 2006, 21:39:24
The growing popularity of online video has caught the attention of malicious hackers and hi-tech criminals.
Security firms are reporting more and more instances of booby-trapped Windows codecs - file compressors - required to play some video formats.
Some of the codecs let users play types of net-based video, but also have spyware and adware wrapped inside.
Others, say experts, are outright fakes that just want to infect victims with data-stealing programs.
"Everyone is watching movies on their PC," said David Robinson, UK head of security firm Norman Sandbox, "they are downloading the latest, greatest clips."
While sites such as YouTube and Revver try to make it easy to watch video online, many of the downloadable clips posted on the web require extra software, called a codec, to play them.
Mr Robinson said many security firms were now logging instances in which spyware and adware firms are turning out software bundles that claim to roll together many popular codecs or just have the one needed to play a particular clip.
Some of the codecs do help to play clips, but others are disguised as a variety of nuisance or malicious programs.
Some rogue codecs plague users with pop-up adverts, while others invisibly install keyloggers that try to grab confidential data.
Anti-spyware firm Sunbelt Software discovered one codec that became a program that found fictitious security problems on a PC and demanded payment to repair them.
Many downloads look benign when scanned with an anti-virus program, but, once installed, download updates from other websites that contain the malicious payload.
Mr Robinson said the growth of booby-trapped video codecs was just another example of how hi-tech criminals have moved on from the old days in which a virus only travelled by e-mail.
Now, he said, they maintain a diverse portfolio of attack methods and will tailor these to whatever is proving popular online.
Mr Robinson said his company Norman Sandbox, which analyses captured samples of malicious code, gets hundreds of new variants of malicious programs submitted to it every day.
David Emm, senior technology consultant at anti-virus firm Kaspersky Labs, said it was only a matter of time before virus writers turned to sites such as YouTube and booby-trapped popular clips with bugs.
"YouTube is almost by definition unregulated," he said, and was ripe for exploitation by malicious hackers. "It gives an almost endless stream of stuff to tap into."
Already spyware firms are known to be using the popularity of some clips on YouTube and social networking site MySpace to install their wares on the PCs of more victims.
Increasing numbers of malicious attacks were pegged to news or other events, said Mr Emm, which helped to catch people out.
The upcoming Halloween holiday is already being exploited by malicious hackers who are baiting websites with viruses and trojans.
Go to BBC News website.
Tuesday, 31. October 2006, 21:11:56
Below you will find graphs displaying trends of released Secunia advisories from 2003 until today. All graphs are continuously updated as new information is released.
Graph displaying the amount of released Secunia advisories.
Graph displaying the number of released Secunia advisories that could be exploited by an attacker to gain system access, and where criticality is "Highly" or "Extremely" critical.
Graph displaying the share of Secunia advisories rated at our different "Criticality" levels.
Graph displaying the share of Secunia advisories in our different "From" categories.
Graph displaying the share of Secunia advisories in our different "Impact" categories.
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The Sophos Security Threat Report and podcast examine existing and emerging security trends, highlighting the new techniques cybercriminals are using in an attempt to make money out of internet users.
Cybercrime gangs enlist the help of Blogspot, Facebook and Angelina Jolie in first half of 2008.
Roll-out of new Facebook profile design marred by security slip-up.
Owen Thor Walker escapes jail, but ordered to pay $11,000 in fines.
Social networking sites and mobile phones used to spread unwanted messages, as United States retains top spot in Dirty Dozen spam-relaying countries.
US-Iran war story used as hook for malware barrage.
Working group of ISPs and net operators issue traffic calming guidelines.
Loophole in Google's AdSense solved, but new flaw quickly uncovered.
EU body issues warning, ICANN, Japan and Yahoo! take on spammers and phishers.
'Spam Kings' Wallace and Rines fined maximum amount under federal law.
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