eEye Digital Security has discovered a critical vulnerability in Symantec's antivirus enterprise software -- a remotely exploitable flaw that provides system level access to affected machines. Following expected protocol for such discoveries, eEye notified Symantec on Wednesday evening, Mike Puterba...
Blue Security, an Internet security firm that tried to fight spam with spam, has shut down after a prolonged denial-of-service attack launched by the spammers it hoped to put out of business. The Israel-based company tried to use the tactics of spammers against it, using a system that automatically ...
Phishers are targeting potential victims through yet another channel: voice over IP systems. Cloudmark, a provider of messaging security applications, this week discovered two separate e-mail schemes that direct recipients to VoIP systems in an effort to steal their personal data. The scam works lik...
Some 97 percent of Web surfers are just a click away from infecting their computers with adware and spyware, according to anti-malware software maker McAfee, of Santa Clara, Calif. McAfee came to that conclusion after analyzing 14,464 responses to a spyware quiz taken by consumers at its SiteAdvisor...
SophosLabs is warning computer users about Troj/Zippo-A, also known as Cryzip, this week, and offering the secret code to crack the scam. The Trojan horse encrypts computer data and attempts to extort a US$300 ransom. Zippo-A searches for files, such as Word documents, databases and spreadsheets, a...
An error made by security software provider McAfee has caused users' systems to delete or quarantine a number of executable files, including some Microsoft Excel documents, that had never been infected by a virus. The error occurred when McAfee released a new virus definition file with code targetin...
Significant concentrations of the Blackworm virus remain in Peru, India and the United States -- currently infecting about five percent of the world's PCs overall -- though the coordinated "disinfection" of most enterprise PCs was successful, according to new research provided to TechNewsWorld. The ...
Consumer and corporate Windows users had the chance to reminisce about the good old days of computer malware as the latest worm, dubbed Kama Sutra, made its expected appearance on Feb. 3. The worm, which at least one computer security expert believes is the creation of a teenager bent on creating ha...
After a slight hiatus during the holidays, malware writers returned with vigor to their malicious ways in January, creating thousands of new software nasties. According to Sophos, an international malware-fighting firm, 2,312 pernicious programs were introduced last month. Anti-virus software maker ...
The last time Microsoft introduced a security service pack -- Windows Service Pack 2 in mid-2004 -- the market could hardly wait. Viruses, worms and other Internet malware were disrupting companies' and individuals' computer use on a regular basis. When Microsoft finally unveiled the long-awaited fi...
Court decisions recognizing the CAN-SPAM Act, which is now almost two years old, have been few and far between. However, recent actions have made up for lost time, say proponents of the law. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Fifth Circuit Court's summary judgment that the University of T...
As the security world awaits yet another Sober variant scheduled to attack today, Sophos revealed the top 10 viruses and hoaxes hindering businesses around the world during December 2005. Sober-Z is atop that list. Sober-Z took the world by storm in December, accounting for a massive 78.9 percent of...
Sony BMG Music Entertainment has reached a tentative settlement with consumers who filed a class action lawsuit over the music giant's digital rights management (DRM) software on CDs, according to documents filed in New York federal court on Wednesday. The settlement will likely be considered in a h...
Blackmail, the shakedown and the sting are age-old forms of thuggery in the analog world, and now they're finding the digital world a fertile place for their poisoned fruits, according to security experts interviewed by TechNewsWorld. The experts say that criminal elements -- including organized cri...
Sony BMG is seeing a revolution of sorts, but perhaps not the kind it was hoping for this holiday season. U.S. band My Morning Jacket is up in arms over its record label's controversial copy-protection software. The uproar started when the band's fans discovered they could not transfer the album "Z"...
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Apple Hedges Bets on Chips in Talks with Intel, Samsung
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Pet Robots Edge Closer to Reality
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Malware Threats Accelerate Across Critical Infrastructure
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AI’s Real Bottleneck Is Power, Not Compute
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Experity AI Care Agent Helps Cut Admin Workload in Urgent Care
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Amazon Brings Alexa+ to the Web as AI Competition Heats Up
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Law Firms Grapple With Hallucinated Legal Logic, Shadow AI
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Malicious Traffic Surges 245% Since Iran War Began
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AI Apps Generate Revenue but Struggle With Retention
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Google and MediaTek Move to Challenge the PC Status Quo
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Meta Enlists AI to Enforce Age Restrictions
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Robotics Framework Aims to Prevent Conflicts in Shared Spaces
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Favored Google Search Results Can Cost Consumers Cash
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MWC 2026 Signals the End of the ‘Dumb’ Smartphone Era
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Australia Bans Social Media Accounts for Minors
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Data Centers in Space: Pi in the Sky or AI Hallucination?
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