Going beyond popular hacker stereotypes, Symantec's Sarah Gordon says cyber-rebels aren't evil--they're just misunderstood.
A virus has been spotted in the wild which attempts to exploit concerns surrounding the bomb blasts that rocked London last Thursday and left at least 50 people dead.
Virus writers have published what are thought to be the first examples of malicious code targeting an expected feature of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, around a week after the first beta of the next-generation operating system was released.
A virus writer has got close to exploiting a critical flaw in the way Microsoft Windows handles JPEGs.
The Sober attack predicted for last Friday has not happened, possibly because of the publicity surrounding the potential outbreak.
Google stitched up some gaping holes in its desktop search software recently but the nature of the tool's design means that the contents of users' hard drives will remain under constant threat of exposure.
Virus writers are merging spam, phishing and Trojan programs to develop more complex attacks on the unwary.
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Businesses need to remain one step ahead of the hackers and virus writers by ensuring they know more about the holes in their networks than the cyber-criminals, according to one expert.
commentary Who takes the time and effort to pull off malicious stunts, like viruses, malware, worms, Trojans, or any other deliberately damaging actions? And why?
The arrest of Jeffrey Lee Parson, the 18-year-old thought to be responsible for the spread of the Blaster worm, has once again sparked off the debate into how virus writers should be punished.
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