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.: PC Tools product guru forecasts major spyware challenges - 5th Jan 2007
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"Michael Greene, PC Tools Vice President of Product Strategy, predicts 2007 will offer these major changes in the security Internet sector: Malware attacks, driven by financial gain, will double in 2007 malware writers will continue attacks on unwary users with more malicious and threatening spyware. Spyware, crimeware, and phishing attacks will overtake viruses as the primary form of malware attack on the Internet. Phishing will become an even more critical threat on the security landscape..."
[eChannel] |
.: Hackers' infections slither onto Web sites - 4th Jan 2007
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"It was the year when cybercriminals targeted everything from MySpace to Wikipedia, and even a Web site maintained by a Kentucky Boy Scout troop wasn't safe for casual browsing.
Computer security experts said 2006 was also the year that hacking stopped being a hobby and became a lucrative profession practiced by an underground of computer developers and software sellers..."
[Mercury News] |
.: Sony has far to go in rootkit case - 21st Dec 2006
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"Sony BMG is making amends in California and Texas for secretly loading antipiracy software onto customers' computers. But the record label has a long way to go before putting the public relations nightmare behind it. Sony BMG, which Sony operates jointly with Bertelsmann Music Group, agreed earlier this week to pay $1.5 million in fines and pay customers in California and Texas whose computers suffered damage as a result of Sony's surreptitiously installed digital rights management (DRM) software..."
[news.com] |
.: Targeted security attacks on the rise - 16th Dec 2006
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"Corporate and industrial espionage attacks are on the rise using targeted trojans intended to steal intellectual property and confidential information, according to the 2006 Annual MessageLabs Intelligence Report. MessageLabs now intercepts two attacks each day, compared to one per week at the same point in 2005
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[IT Week] |
.: Anti-spyware Buying Guide - 15th Dec 2006
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"In the age of broadband, spyware has become as insidious a threat as viruses. Though often not as malicious or dangerous as a virus, spyware is much more widespread. Ever since the infamous "Elf Bowling" game that installed spyware on hundreds of thousands of PCs worldwide, spyware has been a major problem. Today, the National Cyber-Security Alliance has estimated that spyware infects more than 90% of home PCs..."
[PC World] |
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