Displaying items by tag: Cyberthreats
Tuesday, 21 April 2009 09:05
AVG releases free link scanner download
AVG reckons on any given day around the world something like two million web pages are poisoned by hidden threats, and the security firm has just released a free link scanner download which it says will protect Internet users against these “random, invisible online threats”.
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009 17:02
Forget Conficker, there's a new threat driving past your computer!
Security warnings about the impending Conficker worm attacks on computers around the globe have been with us for a while now, and as iTWire reported just a few days ago, while the predicted apocalypse didn’t engulf the world after all, the worm’s still out there. But, be warned, we’re now in the midst of a new security threat of large-scale proportions, according to Kapersky!
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 15:28
Forget the drive-by-shooting, it's the drive-by-download to watch out for!
So-called drive-by download components dominated the latest security threats to our computers during February as cybercriminals attempted to compromise the security of users’ systems.
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Friday, 20 February 2009 03:39
Time for an online banking security revolution
With 2008 showing just how big the “underground economy” has become,
and with numerous examples of banking Trojans and malware reaching new
heights of nefariousness, 2009 is a do-or-die year for the banking
industry – especially in the midst of the global financial crisis.
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Fuzzy Logic
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Sunday, 15 February 2009 11:11
Valentine's viruses vandalise victim's PCs
Ongoing virus and malware threats won’t stop anytime soon, with
Valentine’s Day proving to be the latest opportunity for malware
writers to wreak havoc on PC users – but shouldn’t PC users be well
aware of the threats by now?
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Wednesday, 11 February 2009 16:36
Habbo survey: Security conscious Aussie teens battle online threats
On line bullying and constant attempts to extract personal information for its misuse are part and parcel of life online for Australian teenagers, if the results of a survey of 2,800 teens are a fair representation of what goes on on the Internet.
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Thursday, 05 February 2009 16:17
Unpatched computers hit hard by attacks in January 2009, reports Fortinet
There’s yet another internet threats report released today, this time by Fortinet, a provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions.
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