Back in the good old days of the Internet, the hacker was a teenager motivated by high-tech pranks and bragging rights. Today, the online thief could be anyone with 'Net access after a quick buck.
In its first appearance, CounterSpy was the only antispyware product that correctly identified every piece of spyware in our current active-detection test. It did very well in active scanning, on-demand detection, and complete spyware removal. We also like its overall look and feel.
A New Zealand teenager has been questioned in connection with a scheme by hackers to remotely take over more than 1 million computers worldwide and use them for criminal activity, New Zealand police and the FBI said Thursday.
Hackers infiltrated the diva's MySpace page last week, showing that online scammers like social networking too
Internet veterans have long complained about the steady erosion of civility -- and worse, intelligence -- in online discourse. Initially the phenomenon seemed to be a seasonal disorder. It occurred every September when freshmen showed up for college and went online. Tasting for the first time the freedom and power of the Internet, the newbies would behave like a bunch of drunken fraternity pledges, filling electronic bulletin boards with puerile remarks until the upperclassmen could whip them into shape.
There's an old saying in the news business that says if your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.
What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier practical jokes, has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal computer virus.
The nightmare begins early in the morning with an innocuous-looking e-mail on your mobile phone instructing you to check a specific Web site for information about repairing your credit score.
PCTools Spyware Doctor is one of the last independent antispyware apps on the market, and, until this recent release, was one of the better choices.
Internet pirates have begun to turn away from traditional attack modes such as viruses and worms and are increasingly using targeted emails and other techniques to swipe critical personal information, according to an Internet security report released Monday.
Back in the good old days of the Internet, the hacker was a teenager motivated by high-tech pranks and bragging rights. Today, the online thief could be anyone with 'Net access after a quick buck.
In its first appearance, CounterSpy was the only antispyware product that correctly identified every piece of spyware in our current active-detection test. It did very well in active scanning, on-demand detection, and complete spyware removal. We also like its overall look and feel.
A New Zealand teenager has been questioned in connection with a scheme by hackers to remotely take over more than 1 million computers worldwide and use them for criminal activity, New Zealand police and the FBI said Thursday.
Hackers infiltrated the diva's MySpace page last week, showing that online scammers like social networking too
Internet veterans have long complained about the steady erosion of civility -- and worse, intelligence -- in online discourse. Initially the phenomenon seemed to be a seasonal disorder. It occurred every September when freshmen showed up for college and went online. Tasting for the first time the freedom and power of the Internet, the newbies would behave like a bunch of drunken fraternity pledges, filling electronic bulletin boards with puerile remarks until the upperclassmen could whip them into shape.
There's an old saying in the news business that says if your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.
What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier practical jokes, has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal computer virus.
The nightmare begins early in the morning with an innocuous-looking e-mail on your mobile phone instructing you to check a specific Web site for information about repairing your credit score.
PCTools Spyware Doctor is one of the last independent antispyware apps on the market, and, until this recent release, was one of the better choices.
Internet pirates have begun to turn away from traditional attack modes such as viruses and worms and are increasingly using targeted emails and other techniques to swipe critical personal information, according to an Internet security report released Monday.
A disgruntled hacker with a personal grudge against Symantec, which provides anti-virus software to leading Fortune 500 companies, could be behind a new, crippling computer virus that's already hit a division of at least one big U.S. corporation on Thursday.
You're savvy. You've read lots of network security horror stories, so you've taken all the usual precautions. You've installed firewalls, password-protected your gear, and created offsite backups. ...
ID theft, pretexting, security holes in browsers, targeted Web advertising, the kids' MySpace profiles, the company's monitoring software, phishing, spyware, Wi-Fi break-ins. CAN'T A PERSON GET A L...
Call it the battle of China's Internet tigers. Yahoo! China has gone to court in Beijing claiming rival portal Qihoo is engaged in unfair business practices. At issue: Qihoo's new anti-spyware prog...
AOL is digging for gold in an effort to recover millions owed by a man it sued for sending out spam, searching for gold and platinum bars he is believed to have buried.
When it comes to cell phones, the smarter they are, the harder they fall - for viruses.
The Internal Revenue Service warned American taxpayers Friday to be on the lookout for a so-called "phishing" scam in which criminals send e-mails promising tax refunds.
Many small business owners have a bull's-eye on their back, and they don't even know it.
It's just the news that hardworking taxpayers want to see in their inbox: an update on their refund from the Internal Revenue Service.
Cybercrime is on the rise -- and today's attacks are often silent, hard to detect and highly targeted, according to a new survey.
What do Trojan Horses, the Kama Sutra and a worm have in common?
Many computer users around the globe apparently heeded the warnings about a worm with a sexy name and took precautions to protect their data from the destruction of "Kama Sutra."
"There are a lot of people who are going to be very unhappy on the third of February," said Professor Merrick Furst from the Georgia Tech College of Computing.
A "botnet" is a network of zombie computers -- thousands surreptitiously are infected with code that allows an unauthorized user to control them via the Internet. The computers can be used to spread spam, launch denial-of-service attacks against Web sites and conduct fraudulent activities.
A recent survey estimated that almost two million Internet users in the U.S. inadvertently gave personal information to cyberscammers last year. Increasingly the weapon of choice is a "phishing" ex...
Windows users worried about malicious attacks helped prod Microsoft to release a patch for a vulnerability five days earlier than expected.
Microsoft has released a patch for a vulnerability in some Windows graphics files.
A British Internet-security firm is warning people to not get hooked by an e-mail scam promising tax refunds from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
To many, the name Kevin Mitnick is synonymous with hacking, the cinematic sort where a snot-nosed kid thumbs his nose at authority. But, Mitnick says, the characterization is a bit overdone and the legend untrue, if not libelous.
Internet criminals want your computer, your money and your identity. And their tactics are becoming increasingly refined and organized, according to security experts.
Internet criminals want your computer, your money and your identity. And their tactics are becoming increasingly refined and organized, according to security experts.
Phishing? Cracking? Firewall? If these terms are just so much nerdy gobbledygook to you, better wise up -- because they're describing something that could happen to you.
A computer worm unleashed itself on systems running Microsoft's Windows 2000 Tuesday, causing computer systems to crash across the United States and reportedly as far away as Germany and Asia.
We're all subject to life's little frustrations. Take, for example, those annoying subscription cards that fall out of magazines. It's enough to drive you batty.
A German teenager confessed to creating last year's Sasser worm -- which wreaked havoc on hundreds of thousands of computers -- as he went on trial on charges including computer sabotage, a court official said.
Computer criminals have launched a new type of online attack that steals information, encrypts it, then demands a ransom from the computer owner to get the material back.
YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW SCOTT Richter, but there's a good chance you've gotten e-mail from him. Once ranked the world's third-largest spammer, he is estimated to have sent 250 million unsolicited e...
It's the oldest trick in the virus writer's handbook.
IBM unveiled a service Tuesday that sends unwanted e-mails back to the spammers who sent them.
If spam was the corporate horror flick of 2004, then spyware is 2005's sequel--infiltrating computers, deluging them with viruses, and tracking behavior. Though the software has plagued home PCs fo...
Don't open those e-mail attachments that appear to be from the FBI. They might contain a computer virus.
Researchers have identified a new computer virus that masquerades as news headlines from CNN's Web site.
As David Perry left a cyber-security conference in Luxembourg in 2004, an airport terminal handling international flights was in chaos.
Grinch-like virus writers are spreading their version of holiday cheer by embedding a variant of the so-called "Zafi" e-mail worm inside electronic greetings.
This holiday season, there's one gift you don't want to give -- your identity. But there are a slew of con artists trying to get just that.
Anti-virus software maker McAfee Inc. is warning about a new version of the Mydoom worm that infects computers of people who click on a link in e-mail they receive.
PHOENIX (Komando.com) - It only takes 20 minutes on the Internet for an unprotected computer running Microsoft Windows to be taken over by a hacker. Any personal or financial information stored on that computer is ripe for the taking -- passwords, bank accounts, credit card numbers, and more. A firewall is your first line of defense and it works, so long as it is used properly.
Melissa, PoizonBox, Code Red, Slammer, MyDoom--it's nasty and brutish out there in cyberspace. Viruses and worms are every- where. How can you make sure you have the proper defense? Here are steps ...
Federal agents armed with search warrants conducted raids in three states Wednesday as part of a nationwide crackdown on the theft of copyrighted materials through the Internet, the Justice Department announced.
Dozens of arrests of people charged with crimes related to junk e-mail, identity theft and other online scams will be announced Thursday, according to a published report.
Phishing is a particularly pernicious type of Internet identity theft scam. So far, little has been done to stop it. But that will change if a promising new anti-phishing bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy becomes law.
Someday soon, if it hasn't happened already, you'll open an e-mail from eBay (or Citibank or Visa or another merchant or financial institution) informing you that your account has a problem. It will ask you to visit the company's Web site to straighten it out.
Besides slowing down your computer and subjecting you to annoying pop-ups, worm and virus attacks can do serious harm.
Imagine what could happen if every keystroke or mouse movement made on your computer was being tracked.
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it won't endorse a national 'do-not-e-mail' registry, saying current plans are so flawed they might actually boost the amount of junk e-mail.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A cyber crime task force has arrested several people in a number of countries for hacking into the computer systems of Valve Software, stealing and ultimately releasing the source code for "Half Life 2," one of the gaming industry's most anticipated titles.
The fast-spreading computer worm Sasser has wreaked more havoc on computer users worldwide, affecting several businesses, banks and government offices, including Britain's Coastguard.
Don't you wish virus writers would discover girls and beer? Life would be better, for them and us. Unfortunately, they take out their adolescent urges in cyberspace, and the rest of us have to suffer.
Computer security experts are dealing with at least four variants of a worm that is spreading quickly through Windows operating systems.
Like many small companies, J.B. Racing of Taveres, Fla., depends heavily on its local-area computer network to manage its operations. Earlier this year Dennis King, head of sales and marketing and ...
AOL is giving its subscribers a chance to profit from spam.
Wall Street can't seem to get enough of the taste of spam...the e-mail kind.
Technology stocks slid further away from the key 2,000 level Wednesday as investors shunned equities after monthly data showing a record trade deficit cast doubt on the soundness of the economic recovery.
Maybe e-mails should start to come with a Surgeon General's warning:
So, are you getting less spam now or more than you got in December?
Microsoft became the latest company to offer a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the creator of the MyDoom virus -- an e-mail worm that is expected to cost companies up to $250 million in lost productivity and technical support expenses.
A sneaky e-mail worm continued to clog Internet traffic Tuesday, spreading faster than previous Web bugs by appearing as an innocuous error message.
Hackers unleashed an agile worm Monday -- using a sneaky, fairly new tactic to get unsuspecting computer users to diffuse their malicious code.
Lower mortgage rates, improve your sex life, cell phones at no cost, free DVD player, zero balance, larger breasts or cheap cigarettes ...
E-mail users on both sides of the Atlantic hoping for a legislative reprieve from spam are feeling let down.
Somewhere in the inner circle of hell where virus writers and spammers maintain their offices, a young entrepreneur is crafting a marketing campaign for pills that will shrink your penis and enlarg...
Jim Haney hopes to protect his company from the next big Internet virus attack, but he's not sure he can. "We've been lucky so far," says Whirlpool's chief security officer, "but our time is probab...
Pessimism can seem a virtue after this year's technology calamities--from the Great Northeastern Blackout to the plague of nasty computer worms. If you convince yourself that terrible things are go...
George Kurtz may be his own worst enemy. In just four years Kurtz, CEO of Foundstone, and Stuart McClure, its president, created one of the best-known U.S. computer-security companies by exposing t...
Where are the schlocky movie producers when we need them? If this were 1956 or 1968, we would have already had at least one hastily made, campy horror flick with a title like Spam! or It Came From ...
In a darkened room on the 18th floor of a downtown San Francisco high-rise, Wilson Cheng scans his e-mail. "Cheapest Viagra Guaranteed." "Affordable Mortgages NOW!!!" "Toilet Cams JUQYZJIV." He get...
The numbers are stunning: According to statistics compiled by Symantec's security-check website, 31% of users were susceptible to virus attacks and 56% were vulnerable to exposing private data onli...
Spam, the unsolicited e-mail pitches that clog your mailbox, is an annoyance that's only getting worse. I have four separate e-mail addresses (at AOL, Earthlink and Yahoo), and on average I get at ...
It's an all-too-typical morning in some small business. The company's accounting files are gone from the computer network, having been replaced by pornographic images. How can that happen? There ar...
We are entering the plague years for computer viruses. There are more viruses appearing than ever before, and unlike earlier versions, which were mainly annoying, these new ones are increasingly mo...
In more innocent times, people often left their front doors unlocked. The odds of a burglar trying the front door on any given day were small, especially in rural communities.
James McAlpin (not his real name) doesn't know precisely when the hackers first got into his computers. Last summer he wired his house with a cable connection to the Internet, giving himself and hi...
In the global market for software that fends off viruses and hackers, Risto Siilasmaa is an upstart--small fry. In his home of Finland, the CEO of security software maker F-Secure is something else...
You know the symptoms of this electronic-age database-driven plague: a mailbox bursting with junk mail, incessant phone solicitations, surprises on your phone bill and computer-crashing e-mails, al...
"On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. B...
The Internet can be a nasty place. Stealth viruses roam the electro-ether, automated programs systematically try to break into corporate Websites, hackers sniff the wires for confidential data. Bef...
This is it. We're in. There are things here I can now destroy. This is a good thing. The geek in me is happy. --Three hackers in San Antonio, 11:10 p.m.
A small disclaimer: Compared with their counterparts in Silicon Valley, the eight non-American high-technology entrepreneurs profiled in these pages are not all surfing at the cutting edge of the n...
Whatever you think of a Spam sandwich, there's a new kind of Spam clogging the Internet that online users are finding hard to stomach. We're talking about electronic junk mail from advertisers, ter...
An anxious computer industry billed December 2 as National Computer Security Day to raise a public warning about computer crime. Frank S. Smith III, senior manager of information security services ...
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