Olympics – A Major 2008 Computer Threat

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

2008 may be a busy year when it comes to computer threats, as the attackers prepare an avalanche of malicious attempts over our systems, Websense wrote in the "2008's Top Ten Security Threats" report published today. Although the security vendor presented all the top ten threats which may appear next ...

Beware, Monster Attack Confirmed!

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

It's been a while since Monster.com left out the news and remained focused on its businesses. But today, the famous employment website is again one of the main news topics as it got hacked once again after a few months of calm and quiet atmosphere. Roger Thompson of Exploit Prevention ...

Dangerous Virus Delivered Through Box Office Movie Downloads

Monday, November 19th, 2007

It happens again and this is a pretty obvious sign that the virus creators are evolving as they attempt to adapt their infections to every new event happening all over the world. Today, Li Ting of Rising International Software Co. Ltd., told Reuters that a new virus is currently targeting ...

Windows Live Messenger Targeted By Virus

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Although it happened in the past, I decided to write this article because this type of threats tends to become too dangerous affecting more and more users. Back in October, The Hindu reported that some sort of virus aims to steal the usernames and the passwords of MSN/Windows Live Messenger ...

Yippee! QuickTime Vulnerable Again!

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

It's been a while since QuickTime was the main subject of the security advisory as the Apple technology managed to dribble the flaws and remain 100 percent safe to use. But today, both Apple and security company Secunia advised the users to update to version 7.3 as the prior versions ...

United States – The Most Vulnerable Country

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Security company Sophos rolled out the report concerning the spam evolution in the third quarter of the year, revealing that the United States won the first position with 28.4 points. This means that "almost one in three of all the world's spam emails is being sent through a compromised US ...