Central Command: Top 12 Viruses For August 2003
August 2003 is worse virus month in history; Worm/Sobig.F dominates the chart MEDINA, Ohio September 1, 2003 – Central Command, a leading provider of PC anti-virus …
Vigilar Partners with F5 Networks to Provide Complete Traffic Management Solutions for Enterprises
Information Security Services Firm Adds F5 to its Roster of Best-of-Breed Partners Atlanta –August 28th, 2003 — Vigilar, a comprehensive information security …
Sobig Virus Damage Breaks World Record
London, UK, 11:00 GMT 29 August 2003 – Sobig has risen to become the most damaging virus ever according to the mi2g Intelligence Unit as it continues to choke bandwidth …
Teenage Blaster Worm Creator Suspect Named
Media reports from the US have named the 18 year-old suspected of writing and releasing a variant of the Blaster worm as Jeffrey Lee Parson from Minnesota. Parson, who is …
nCipher Announces Security Module Integration with Windows Server 2003
Woburn, MA — August 26, 2003 — nCipher plc (LSE:NCH), a leading provider of cryptographic IT security solutions, today announced integration with the recently launched …
Weekly virus report – Kelaw Worms, HackTool/NTRootKit, Blaster.E and Sobig.F
This week’s virus report focuses on the variants A and B of the Kelar worm (W32/Kelar.A and W32/Kelar.B), the hacking tool, HackTool/NTRootKit, associated to these …
FBI Set To Arrest 18 Year-Old Blaster Worm Suspect
According to several US media reports, the FBI is expected to arrest a man today in connection with one of the various variants of the Blaster internet worm. An unnamed …
New Variant E of the Blaster Worm Appears
Panda Software’s Virus Laboratory has detected the appearance of the new variant E of the Blaster worm. Like its predecessors, this malicious code exploits the RPC DCOM …
Citadel Security Software’s Hercules Technology Undergoes Common Criteria Upgrade to Level 3
Hercules Only Vulnerability Remediation Tool Registered to Undergo Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 3 DALLAS, TX -August 26, 2003-Citadel Security Software …
Citadel Security Software Vulnerability Remediation Solution Automates Attack Clean Up in Response to Latest Threats
Hercules Automates the Process of Removing Sobig, Nachi and MSBlast Worms from Infected Computers; Cutting Down Clean Up Time by up to 95 % Dallas, TX – August 26, 2003 …
The “Cure” Causes More Trouble Than The Illness
The virus known as Welchia is a derivative of the Lovesan worm virus that spreads via the Internet to computers running Microsoft operating systems that have not been patched …
Excedent Customers Protected From the Sobig.F Virus
One in 10 Emails Contain the Most Widespread Virus Ever Vienna, Virginia (August 28, 2003) – Excedent Technologies, a global leader in business email outsourcing, …