News (67)

  • NetSky variant a greater threat than thought

    Security company Symantec raised its severity rating of the latest incarnation of the NetSky worm.

  • MyLife continues to breed Down Under

    Another variant of the MyLife worm, MyLife.j, has hit Australia. The concern is now focussed on how rapidly these variants are appearing.

  • Author leaves warning in latest Sasser worm

    Antivirus companies discovered a fifth version of the Sasser variant this weekend, within hours of German police arresting an 18-year-old man who confessed to being the Sasser worm's author.

  • Preying on human frailty

    The proverbial maxim of "once bitten, twice shy" applies to many aspects in life but eludes most users in their recurring struggle to deal with computer viruses.

  • The hacker challenge

    Security systems continue to get more sophisticated--and so do the hackers who are seeking to break through them. How can you best combine your defences to protect your company networks?

  • Virus writers get stealthy

    Virus writers are turning to new tricks as the trend of big-hitting worms eases off in favour of malware that can slip in under the radar

  • Virus writers get slapper happy

    Internet vandals have continued to modify the recent Slapper worm and have sent at least four new variants of the hostile Linux program into the electronic wilds.

  • Microsoft says virus writer bounties are working

    The software giant has revealed that the US$5 million fund it set up to reward information about virus writers may yet lead to the arrest of the authors of three major viruses.

  • Desktop search tools a virus writers' best friend

    Companies should not deploy a desktop search tool without first considering the security implications because they could end up helping virus writers, say security experts.

  • JPEG-based virus attack gets closer

    A virus writer has got close to exploiting a critical flaw in the way Microsoft Windows handles JPEGs.

  • Sony to patch copy-protected CD

    Sony BMG Music Entertainment and a technology partner are working with antivirus companies on a fix for a potential security problem in some copy-protected CDs.

  • Survey: Microsoft bears some blame for worms

    One-third of business users blame Microsoft for the recent worm outbreak, despite the company's security efforts, according to a poll.

  • Researcher denies Slammer worm accountability

    Security researcher David Litchfield's 'proof of concept' code was probably used to build SQL Slammer, but that will not stop him publishing

  • Spying worms likely to proliferate

    Security experts have warned that vulnerability assessment worms, which assess computers for security flaws and relay the information back to the author, are likely to become more of a threat.

  • '10 new Windows XP SP2 flaws' revealed

    A security company has warned that hackers can silently and remotely take over any Windows XP SP2 machine, but Microsoft has rubbished the claims.

12345Next >

Create an e-mail alert for "patch"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
patch


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 4 anti-virus
  2. Popularity: 5 antivirus
  3. Popularity: 2 attack
  4. Popularity: 3 author
  5. Popularity: 3 bagle
  6. Popularity: 2 bmg
  7. Popularity: 2 bropia
  8. Popularity: 3 cd
  9. Popularity: 2 code
  10. Popularity: 5 code red
  11. Popularity: 4 copy
  12. Popularity: 2 critical
  13. Popularity: 5 drm
  14. Popularity: 2 e-mail
  15. Popularity: 12 european union
  16. Popularity: 2 firefox
  17. Popularity: 3 firewall
  18. Popularity: 6 flaw
  19. Popularity: 3 hack
  20. Popularity: 3 hacker
  21. Popularity: 2 hackers
  22. Popularity: 2 hacking
  23. Popularity: 2 ie
  24. Popularity: 4 malware
  25. Popularity: 2 messenger
  26. Popularity: 3 msblast
  27. Popularity: 2 msn
  28. Popularity: 2 mydoom
  29. Popularity: 3 netsky
  30. Popularity: 3 nimda
  31. Popularity: 3 protection
  32. Popularity: 5 rootkit
  33. Popularity: 4 sasser
  34. Popularity: 19 security
  35. Popularity: 3 sony
  36. Popularity: 2 sp2
  37. Popularity: 2 spam
  38. Popularity: 2 swen
  39. Popularity: 4 symantec
  40. Popularity: 5 trojan
  41. Popularity: 32 virus
  42. Popularity: 6 viruses
  43. Popularity: 3 vulnerabilities
  44. Popularity: 6 vulnerability
  45. Popularity: 3 windows
  46. Popularity: 2 windows 2000
  47. Popularity: 25 worm
  48. Popularity: 4 worms
  49. Popularity: 3 xp
  50. Popularity: 2 zotob

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • David Braue NBN needs workers on board
    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
  • Array D'Ascenzo: Read p23 of security review
    Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April.
  • Array Opening the floodgates on missing drives
    News headlines about portable storage devices going missing are as common as muck, but the problem could be even more widespread than you suspect.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured