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'Cookie dynamic' - new anti-phishing security solution
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Trojan, threat of financial security
Technology criminals will be online with you in transactions to steal money. The warning of experts on a new situation worrisome in financial transaction security. Troja…
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Strength Google gets viruses exploited to spread
Authors of attack software are increasingly creating new tools to take advantage of the huge search system to determine the target. This is the latest trend in the hacke…
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The first virus attacked Mac OS X
Apple's operating system became the target of an attack software called Leap.A, via the instant messaging service iChat IM. This virus automatically forwards its copy as…
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Cyber security 2006: There will be a change in cybercrime
IBM has published the content of the 2005 Global Business Security Index report and makes predictions about potential cyber threats that will likely happen in 2006. IBM…
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Spanish Hacker was sentenced to 2 years in prison for DDoS attacks
According to British security firm Sophos, Santiago Garrido, 26, has spread a network to control computers and denial of service (DDoS) attacks, causing one-third of Int…
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Russian stock market staggered because of the virus
Russian stock exchange system (RTS - Russian Trading System) was forced to stop all transactions within one hour on Thursday (February 2) last week after being attacked…
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Latest vulnerability in Winamp
Over the weekend, the popular Winamp music player was attacked by a spyware attack through a vulnerability available in the software. In fact, the code for exploiting th…
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IBM: 2006 is the year of
The results of a recent IBM study have helped confirm what security experts have warned about the shift from computer-based worm virus attacks to targeted attacks. ti &…
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Skype can become a control tool
Internet telephony services such as Skype and Vonage may inadvertently help cybercriminals send spam and denial of service (DDoS) attacks to knock down websites. Communi…
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Tet: Be wary of high-tech crime
Lunar New Year, the longest holiday of the year for Vietnamese people, cyber security experts recommend that computer users be wary of cybercrime. According to statistic…
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New deep variant exploits Oracle errors
The malicious code has the ability to exploit security vulnerabilities and cause serious damage to previously distributed Oracle database software that has been widely m…
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Virus attacks Microsoft's latest IM software
Security firm F-Secure has said the latest IM version of Microsoft, MSN Messenger 8, is being attacked by a virus after being officially tested not long ago. It is a new…
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2005 signaled the decline of computer viruses
Cybercrime now enhances the construction of spyware, in order to collect personal information for sale or self-exploitation later. Previously, virus writers only wanted…
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2006: Hackers will focus on attacking the financial industry
In the 2005 Global Security Situation report, MessageLabs stated that in 2006, hackers will increase, focusing on the financial and administrative sectors. Attacks inclu…