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| Twitter fights off computer worm
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| AFP - Micro-blogging service Twitter was targeted by a wave of attacks by a computer worm over Easter weekend, a co-founder of the Web messaging company said.
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| Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:12:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| Password Stealers Sit on Popular Download Sites
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| PC World - You might already know that it's easy for the bad guys to buy malware kits and ready-made digital nasties on black market Web sites. But some tools are even easier to pick up, such as a blatant IM password stealer available on a major download site. -- read full article |
| Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:25:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| Book a bed and breakfast, catch a computer virus
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| Reuters - The number of computer viruses is growing extraordinarily fast and shifting from phishing e-mails to being hidden in seemingly safe websites such as a local bed and breakfast, says Internet security company Symantec Corp in a new report on Tuesday. -- read full article |
| Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:15:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| Mutating Worm Plagues Twitter with Malware Tweets
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| NewsFactor - In another attack against social networks, a malware author targeted Twitter over the weekend -- and the worm was still spreading in mutated form on Monday. Security experts warn that Twitter may be battling variants of the worm throughout the week. -- read full article |
| Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:03:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| Low-tech tools take out phones in Silicon Valley
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| AP - Forget, for a moment, computer viruses and sophisticated cybercrimes. A hacksaw and a few other tools were probably all it took for someone to sever eight fiber-optic cables in Silicon Valley this week, knocking out cell phone, landline and Internet service.
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| Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:49:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| Conficker Awakens, Starts Scamming
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| PC World - The Conficker worm is back in action and stumping security experts once again. One of the most craftily designed pieces of malware recently got an update and is finally starting to behave like other worms. Here's what's going on: -- read full article |
| Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:04:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| Conficker Launches Money-Making Scam
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| NewsFactor - Researchers discovered a new variant of the Conficker worm Thursday whose mission is to cash in on unsuspecting PC users. Security companies are warning that the variant is attempting to download malicious code onto victims' systems, possibly including copies of the Waledac Trojan, a spam-oriented application that has propagated through bogus e-mail messages. -- read full article |
| Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:41:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| It's Malware Time as Conficker Awakens and Updates
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| NewsFactor - This is no April Fools' joke. The Conficker botnet is alive and well, and is using its peer-to-peer communications system to update itself as it downloads fake antivirus programs to millions of Windows machines previously infected with the virus. -- read full article |
| Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:30:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| Huge computer worm Conficker stirring to life
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| AP - The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm's authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared. -- read full article |
| Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:50:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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