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It has been a long time coming, but a virus writer has finally been arrested by the Japanese authorities. According to security specialists Sophos law enforcement agencies in Kyoto, Japan, have arrested three men who stand accused of plotting to infect users of a popular P2P file-sharing network...
Read More | Jan 28th, 2008 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Jan 29th, 2008
Kaspersky Lab has published its list of the most prevalent viruses for the end of 2007, and although an email worm retains the top spot the more interesting stuff is happening immediately below it in the rankings of shame.
Specifically, the second, fourth and seventh places which are all occupied...
Read More | Jan 2nd, 2008 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jan 7th, 2008
Mention mobile phone viruses and the chances are you will get one of two responses:
It is a money making exercise for security vendors who have created the mobile phone virus myth so they can sell protection nobody needs.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha.However, the arrest of a 28 year old man in Valencia,...
Read More | Jun 25th, 2007 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Jun 28th, 2007
Leading security vendor Kaspersky Lab has uncovered the first ever proof of concept virus designed with the sole intention of infecting the iPod media player. Like all proof of concept viruses though, Podloso poses no real world threat to users. For a start it requires a Linux installation, not on...
Read More | Apr 6th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Apr 7th, 2007
My original news story here at DaniWeb has certainly caused something of a media frenzy. Everyone from specialist GPS and gadget websites through to national newspapers have been covering how TomTom let an unspecified number of its GO 910 satnav devices escape from the factory with not one but two...
Read More | Feb 1st, 2007
It started with an email from a worried satnav user, Lloyd Reid of Trichromic LLP an IT consultant who knows his way around a computer and knows a virus when his AV software flags one up. The cause for his concern being a newly purchased TomTom GO 910 satnav unit that, once connected to his PC,...
Read More | Jan 28th, 2007 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: 1 Day Ago
According to my Finnish friends, F-Secure, Bagle looks like it might be back in business. Not that it has ever really gone away of course, as it is one of the most prevalent of worm families.
F-Secure have noticed new activity during the last couple of days, which sees a number of old Bagle...
Read More | Dec 2nd, 2006
Kaspersky Lab has released its latest Malware Evolution report, covering the period between June and September 2006 and, as usual, it makes for interesting reading.
Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst, Kaspersky Lab comments that the first six months of 2006 was “notable for the complexity of...
Read More | Nov 20th, 2006
If you think of a virus as being something that replicates itself, spreading from computer to computer, until seemingly everyone has it installed, then maybe you could classify Google’s Gmail service as being one.
If you happened to be using Microsoft Windows Live OneCare security over the...
Read More | Nov 14th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Nov 15th, 2006
A number of owners of new iPods could be getting more than they bargained for, as Apple has admitted that a ‘small number’ of iPod video products sold after 12th September are infected with the RavMonE.exe virus. Mistakes happen, and while Apple has been forthright about owning up to the...
Read More | Oct 24th, 2006 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Nov 1st, 2006
