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take it in our stride, thinking it's inevitable. The fact is that there are known causes behind this degradation of computer performance, and if these causes are resolved, the computer runs faster again. In the case of a...
By Aharon Etengoff Friday, 20 November 2009 16:46 SophosLabs has identified a mutated Koobface worm that is apparently capable of hacking into Skype accounts. According to researcher Numaan Huq, the new Koobface variant...
Eric Sites is well known in the IT security business as CTO of Sunbelt Software. He’s also a member of the Conficker Working Group, which was established in February 2009 with a brief to combat the Conficker worm. A Actually,...
Davey Winder reveals how the Conficker worm became one of the world's biggest security problems and how the experts dealt with it 21 November marks exactly a year since the Conficker worm was unleashed upon an unsuspecting...
The Malicious Software That Spell Big Trouble for Computers Contrary to the popular belief that malware is nothing but a virus, It is not exactly true - all viruses may be malware, but all malware are not exclusively virus....
Hardly a day goes by without some online news reference to ‘phishing’, sometimes also known as ‘carding’ or ‘brand spoofing’. It involves tricking computer users into disclosing their personal details [username, password, PIN...
British police have made the first European arrests connected to the spread of a data-thieving virus thought to have infected tens of thousands of computers worldwide, Scotland Yard said. The electronic crimes unit of London's...
Two suspected computer hackers have been arrested by detectives investigating a sophisticated virus which steals personal details from people using the internet. Thousands of computer users have been struck by the Zeus or Zbot...
Police arrest two suspected hackers over virus that has infected tens of thousands of computers around the world Two suspected hackers have been arrested by police investigating a "trojan" computer virus that gathers...
It is common knowledge that viruses, worms and malware attack computer systems but what is novel is that they also enter your smartphones. The prime reason being that almost everything we access on a computer can be accessed on...
