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Preventing Spam with Unique Disposable E-Mail Services
I really don’t need to talk about the current situation with spam on the Internet. I have 10+ mailboxes, all of them receiving at least 50 spam e-mails per day, but I …
Something “completely different” – Independence Day trojan
Malware writers are out to cash in on the Independence Day celebrations of United States. A new email in circulation poses itself as a July Four greeting card sent by a friend …
MySpace attacks and malicious code
PandaLabs wrote about the appearance of several malicious codes that are using MySpace pages to spread. In some cases, these pages have not been specifically created to spread …
The threat of virus infected talking computers
If your computer starts talking to you and tells you that you are infected and your files have been deleted, it’s no joke, you have just been infected by the BotVoice.A …
Malware over real-time communications channels shows no sign of slowing
FaceTime Communications reported today that security incidents targeting public IM and P2P channels have increased by 5 percent in Q2 2007 compared with Q1 2007. In contrast, …
Easy Packet Sniffing on Mac OS X
If you have more than one workstation, you administer several machines connected to a network, or just frequently connect to various networks, sooner or later you’ll …
New Fujitsu secure 300GB 2.5″ portable external hard disk drive
Fujitsu today launched its new travel-ready and world’s highest capacity 2.5″ External Hard Disk Drive for the U.S. market. Featuring up to 300GB of storage space …
Digital trust essential to enterprise business prosperity
Since January 2005, there have been more than 150 million identity breaches in the U.S. alone, and there is a growing market exploiting online theft. The average credit card, …
Netsky.q returns to top of virus chart
NetSky.q, the all-time leader for 2004 and 2005, has returned to head the virus Top 20 for June, according to information security software vendor, Kaspersky Lab. Hot on its …
Financially motivated threats still the most frequent malware in June
According to PandaLabs, Trojans and adware accounted for 49.6% of infections detected by Panda ActiveScan in June. Trojans, which increased by 0.75% this month, caused 26.89% …
The Evolution of Self-Defense Technologies in Malware
This article explores how malware has developed self-defense techniques and how these techniques have evolved as it has become more difficult for viruses to survive. It also …
Watch out new iPhone users – anyone can listen to your voicemail
Altough this problem was found out more than a year ago, new users that are buying iPhones and migrating to AT&T/Cingular should know that their voicemails can be …