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How rogue antivirus software vendors avoid scrutiny from credit card companies
In a bid to trace the flow of loot to vendors of rogue antivirus software, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara infiltrated three scareware affiliate networks as part of a
McAfee adds virtual network traffic analysis to its IPS
Security vendor McAfee says it has updated its intrusion prevention system (IPS) with the ability to analyze network traffic from virtual machines (VMs). Specifically, Network Security Platform
New ransomware tricks with bogus Windows activation
A new Trojan has been spotted that tries to scare by a series of messages that attempt to emulate Microsoft's ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) activation process. As reported by Computerworld, an infected computer
Trend Micro bumps a Zeus botnet server off the Net
Security vendor Trend Micro on Wednesday announced that it has successfully eliminated a Zeus botnet server, otherwise known as a command-and-control (C&C) server, from the Internet. In a blog
RSA warns of possible risk to customers of SecurID following cyber attack
EMC's RSA Security division was the target of a recent sophisticated cyber attack which could have led to "certain information being extracted from RSA's system" wrote RSA's Executive Chairman Art
Some security vendors becoming more strategic
IT security spending tends to be hard to justify under almost any conditions, but in the bad economy a lot of the discussion just gets put on the back burner. Between the growing sophistication of
Proof-of-concept Mac Trojan surfaces
Security vendor Sophos say it has spotted a new backdoor Trojan that specifically targets the Mac OS X. After examining a sample that the company received, Sophos named it MusMinim and say that the
Worldwide spam plummets to two-year low in January
The amount of spam encountered in January dropped to just 78.6 percent of all sent email, the lowest amount since March 2009, reports security vendor Symantec. The decrease in spam volume was
Government, military and education sites put up for sale by hacker
A hacker has put a number of websites belonging to the government, military and education institutions up for sale in Internet forums. The discovery was made by Noa Bar-Yosef, a senior security
Computer security forecasts
As 2010 drew to a close, the major computer security vendors put out predictions for this year's biggest threats. PC Magazine's Larry Seltzer pulled together a round-up of the vendors' forecasts and
