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Worm uses a video on YouTube to conceal its malicious action
A new worm, SpreadBanker.A, uses a YouTube video to trick users and spread, according to PandaLabs. The worm has two components. When the user runs the first of these, it …
Quick and slow virus infections
One of the most infamous viruses is “Friday 13′ and its name originates from the day in which it deleted all .exe files on computers. Apart from this virus, which …
Symbian-Based Smartphone Security Software
With over 110 million Symbian smartphones shipped worldwide, this OS is becoming very popular and the need for security tools is growing. Presented here are applications you …
Search engine safety study key findings
McAfee recently updated their study titled “The State of Search Engine Safety”. Among the study’s new key findings are: ” 4.0 percent of all search …
Possible exploitable bug in Safari for Windows
Researcher Aviv Raff found a bug in the just released version of Safari web browser for Windows. Although it is still in beta, his blog post highlights Apple’s note on …
$200bn of credit card transactions will not meet PCI Security Standards in 2007
ExaProtect calculates that over $200 billion in consumer and business credit card transactions made during 2007 will not meet the data security standards managed by the …
Prevx upgrades its enterprise-class anti-malware tool
Prevx announced the availability of Prevx 2.0 for enterprises, small and medium businesses and consumers. Prevx 2.0 enables users to manage IT security from a position of …
EarthLink starts an online security center
EarthLink started offering a new layer of protection with the launch of the EarthLink Security Center. Available to all Internet users, this Web site is a source of news, …
Fortinet expands its multi-threat security appliances
Fortinet expanded its FortiGate-3000 Series of multi-threat security appliances with the introduction of two new products – the FortiGate-3810A and the FortiGate-3016B …
AmbironTrustWave Acquires SecureTrust Corporation
AmbironTrustWave is now directly issuing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates as a result of the company’s acquisition of certificate authority, SecureTrust …
New version of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner helps with PCI compliance
Acunetix announced the release of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner v5 which includes an extensive compliancy reporting tool amongst others, to aid companies achieve PCI …
90% of mail received by companies in May was spam
According to data compiled by TrustLayer Mail, the managed security service from Panda Software, 90 percent of email that reached companies in May was spam. This data has been …
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