News (22)

  • Sober worm hits new heights

    The Sober.P worm is circulating the Internet in greater quantities than ever, according to antivirus company Sophos.

  • Clock ticking on new Sober onslaught

    A new outbreak of Sober may be coming, security experts have warned, even as e-mail systems worldwide work to get rid of the last infestation of the mass-mailing worm.

  • Sober worm now 4 percent of all e-mail

    One in every 22 e-mails circulating the Internet on Wednesday contained the latest version of the Sober worm, according to latest statistics from a UK antivirus company.

  • Virus chaos thwarted by poor social engineering

    The latest variant of the Sober virus was released on Friday and has been spreading over the weekend but antivirus experts say the situation could have been much worse.

  • Social engineering helps Sober top virus charts

    Despite being released in the third week of last month, Sober was by far the most successful piece of malware and accounted for more than 40 percent of all viruses in November, according to Sophos.

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  • Week in review: Browser mania

    The battle of the browsers heated up this week as Netscape unleashed its latest version and Internet Explorer embraced tabbed browsing.

  • German hate-spam spread by Sober virus

    Another variant of the Sober virus, which spreads hate messages in German and English, appeared over the weekend. Security firms are warning that they have received hundreds of thousands of e-mails generated by Sober.Q in its first 24 hours.

  • Sober.d prevention and cure

    What appears to be yet another Microsoft security patch for the MyDoom worm is actually a computer virus. Sober.d (w32.sober.d@mm, also known as Roca.a) is the fourth member of the Sober mass-mailing virus family written in Visual Basic.

  • Internet Lockdown: quick security overview

    Internet Lockdown, a new book by Tim Crothers, covers security for systems, networks, and applications as well as the Internet.

  • Hackers: Under the hood

    Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.

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