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January 2009 malware and spam geographical and vertical trends
January 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report highlights the following trends: Geographical Trends: Although, spam levels in France fell by 0.3 percent in January, France …
PayPal UK customers can now use strong authentication passwords
Internet users in the UK now have the option of using VeriSign Identity Protection on their PayPal account as an extra layer of security to protect their online identity. …
First Valentine’s Day malware attacks
As February 14 approaches, security vendors start to detect dozens of malware strains aimed at infecting users’ computers using Valentine’s Day as bait. The first …
Serious security alert for Monster.com and USAJobs.gov users
IT security and control firm Sophos is advising all users of careers website Monster.com and USAJobs.gov, the official job site of the US Federal Government, to change their …
Netgear unveils ProSecure STM series of threat management appliances
Netgear launched its new line of Security Threat Management (STM) products. The ProSecure STM Series offers three platforms, each with a different level of horsepower, to …
Heartland CEO calls for adoption of end-to-end encryption
Heartland made a PR move with their CEO in order to alleviate some of the anger targeted towards them because the recent breach of their security. The Heartland CEO Robert …
Removal tool for Trojan found in pirated copies of iWork ’09
SecureMac released iWorkServices Trojan Removal Tool, a free utility created to remove the iWorkServices Trojan from infected Macintosh computers running OS X. This tool is in …
Video: General Manager of IE talks about Internet Explorer 8 RC 1
Robert Vamosi sat down with Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of IE at Microsoft. In the video below you can hear him outline what he believes are the compelling reasons to …
MythBusters to keynote RSA Conference 2009
RSA Conference, the world’s leading information security conferences and expositions, today announced that Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, Discovery Channel television …
Latest list of top spamming countries
Between October and December 2008, the United States relayed most of the world’s unwanted emails. China has leapt back into second place, relaying a larger proportion of …
Screenshots of a Comerica phishing attack
Comerica is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas. Today we received numerous phishing spam emails trying to snatch information and token codes of Comerica …
Symbian trojan that steals money from mobile accounts
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, has detected a new malicious program capable of controlling a user’s mobile phone account.  …
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