Officials at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada knew for two weeks about a virus infecting the drone “cockpits” there. But they kept the information about the infection to themselves—keeping the unit that’s supposed to serve as the Air Force’s cybersecurity specialists in the dark[......]
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other war zones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System , has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source[......]
Lots of people are dismissing blogs and news stories about Mac Defender , and the Mac Guard variant , as frivolous reporting. [......]
That's the early result of our two separate polls asking Macintosh and Windows PC users whether anti-malware software is installed on their primary home computers. What's most interesting: About as many -- 8 out of 10 -- Windows PC users have anti-malware software installed. [......]
Some malware infections are straightforward. They're known threats, cause little damage, and your regular antivirus engine can detect and remove them in seconds: easy. Other situations can be a little more complicated, though[......]
Microsoft has released a portable standalone security tool designed specifically to scan for and remove viruses, spyware and other threats. Microsoft Safety Scanner comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions for PCs running Windows XP or later[......]
The Justice Department said Wednesday that with the help of Microsoft, it and the FBI were able to take down a botnet that had infected nearly two million computers. Controlled by a program called "Coreflood," the virus was stealing personal information including financial data from infected users, and had been operating for close to a decade. Five control servers and 29 domain names were seized in raids, and charges have been filed against 13 "John Doe" defendants for wire fraud, bank fraud and illegal interception of electronic communications[......]
No antivirus engine is perfect, even the market leaders will miss the occasional threat, and so installing just one security package could leave you exposed to risks. WinMHR , though, will scan your system and use the collective intelligence of more than 30 antivirus tools to identify malware, which means it's much more likely to detect even the lesser-known dangers. We launched the program and it scanned the executables for all our running processes, calculating MD5 hashes (digital signatures) for everything it finds. [......]
There's a bit of debate on what exactly qualifies as the world's first computer virus, especially since the term, as it applies to computer code, didn't exist in the early days of computing. Many, however, credit the Creeper virus as being the first, which spawned this day 40 years ago (1971). [......]
There's a bit of debate on what exactly qualifies as the world's first computer virus, especially since the term, as it applies to computer code, didn't exist in the early days of computing. Many, however, credit the Creeper virus as being the first, which spawned this day 40 years ago (1971). Anyone feel like celebrating[......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Security researchers at Sophos Labs last week discovered a new, "still in beta" backdoor Trojan targeting Mac OS. The Trojan, identified as BlackHoleRAT, is a variant of the free "remote administration tool" darkComet RAT for Windows, and gives the administrator the ability to placing text files on the desktop, sending restart, shutdown or sleep commands, to run shell commands, to place a full-screen window with a message that forces a reboot, to force URLs to a client, and to pop up a fake "Administrator Password" phishing window. [......]
By Ed Oswald , Betanews A new virus is spreading around Twitter using the Google 'goo.gl' URL shortening service, posing as anti-virus software. Affected users may see tweets with links in their timelines ending with "m28sx.html," says Graham Cruley of security firm Sophos. [......]
What if governments around the world begin issuing travel advisories based on AVG's list of “ the safest and most dangerous places in the world to use the internet ?†The tourism industries of Turkey and Russia would be the worst affected, for they occupy the top two spots on the list of the most dangerous countries to browse the web. Turkey gets to wear the prickly crown of being the most dangerous country to surf the web. According to AVG, the incidence rate of virus attacks in the Eurasian country is 1 in 10, which is way above the global average of 1 in 73[......]
Ah, Microsoft. It's taken the software giant years to wise up and realize they ought to provide a free antivirus solution to their users. The launch last year of Microsoft Security Essentials gave us hope that Microsoft was getting serious about security[......]
We test 10 popular antivirus apps to find out which are best at defeating today's myriad malware menaces Once upon a time, the typical computer virus was annoying, and even a little destructive, but nowhere near as dangerous as what computer users face today. The stakes are much higher now, and if you’re not careful or haven’t taken the proper precautions, you’re a sitting duck for hackers to steal your identity and sell your private information to the highest underground bidder. Imagine waking up to find your bank account drained or your credit destroyed[......]
