Matt Hines at InfoWorld reports:
Security researchers have been touting the growing nature of professionalism among virus authors over the last several years, but new evidence points to increased cooperation between malware writers spread around the globe, according to some experts.
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Among the diamond covers for mobile phones all the way to the best of breed technology from Iran, the traditional security hall at Cebit has stretched to almost 3 halls and some vendors are extended out to the prestigious hall 1. The exhibitors say this year Cebit is better then last year, the visitors are [...]
Anti-virus leaders Kaspersky and F-Secure paint a grim picture of the battle against malware. Reporting from CeBIT, the article describes an overwhelming ‘avalanche’ of malicious code.
Read what Mikko Hypponen and Kaspersky himself had to say in the Deutsche Welle article:
At Tech Fair, Experts Say War Against Viruses Could Be Lost
(Thanks to Haggai for this article)
Our International Business Development team is in the midst of the monster of IT events, CeBIT in Hannover Germany. F-Secure’s CEO described the experience and provided an illustrative photo on the F-Secure blog:
It is that time of the year again. CeBIT, the world’s largest IT fair starts today in Hannover, Germany.
As usual, CeBIT is massive. [...]
Image spam tricks spam filters, clogs networks
By Sue Hildreth, contributor
15 Mar 2007 | SearchSecurity.com
”A picture is worth a thousand words,” goes the old saying. What is true in art and journalism is proving equally apt in the more modern field of spam. As the recent surge in image-based spam shows, pictures can be a very [...]
More sour news for Microsoft’s managed security service OneCare. The overzealous quarantine has reported to be swallowing clean mail files.
“OneCare seems to have deleted my Outlook.pst file,” posted a user with the handle of Richard.Potthoff. “Is there a chance to recover it? If not, OneCare will have done more damage than any virus in my [...]
“These perpetrators effectively cut out the middleman of the old-fashioned pump-and-dump scheme, eliminating phony stock promotions, creating their own artificial trading demand, and consummating their fraud in as little time as a couple of hours.”
- SEC Office of Internet Enforcement Chief John Reed Stark
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Gmail anti-spam engineer calls to users to report spam. From a recent google blog entry
“How can you help in the fight? Your most powerful tool is the “Report Spam” button. Use it early and often. That isn’t just there to get the spammy message into the spam folder. It sends valuable information back to the [...]
SANS Institute is a serious and, probably, the most trusted information security organization. They issue SANS Newsbit email letter covering interesting security-related news. Today, one of the topics they covered was Securityfocus.com’s article about Storm Worm trojan defeating AV products. Why am I so excited that I even decided to blog about it? Ah, you [...]
Verizon Wireless has won a permanent injunction against Specialized Programming and Marketing LLC, prohibiting the company from sending text message spam to Verizon Wireless customers. Specialized Programming and Marketing is also required to pay $200,000 in damages.
Text message spam has been on the rise in the recent years. Wireless services providers understand that an outbreak [...]
