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News Archive - March 2008
31, March 2008
Here are some interesting stats: the rise of broadband is creating a new demand in the internet and associated services, security, applications etc. Last October Facebook sold off a...
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30, March 2008
I almost choked yesterday. I was having a cup of tea with my sister-in-law and we were discussing yesterday's article on how online gaming is allowing hackers to log...
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29, March 2008
If you're an online gamer, watch out! Fraudsters are in your 'hood, and heading your way. The trend towards targetting online gamers is rising. Although gaming has...
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28, March 2008
The boffins who analyse the internet security market have predicted the worldwide market for anti-virus will continue to grow at about 10% for the next 6 years. Obviously the...
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27, March 2008
When you've been filling in an online form, or have signed up for a webmail account have you ever had to fill in a confirmation box with squiggly or oddly-shaped...
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26, March 2008
Over the next few years, if not months, we'll notice a change in the way security firms (and therefore customers) approach online threats. Gone are the days when a...
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25, March 2008
Despite a security company alerting the world to a Microsoft software bug weeks ago, Microsoft yesterday made a public announcement indicating there was a critical vulnerability in its word processing...
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24, March 2008
Microsoft released the new service pack for Vista recently, which is a relief to the majority of Vista users worldwide. The release has been generally held back from the...
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23, March 2008
Over the past few days I have spoken about how Macs are becoming more prone to virus attacks. Nobody is safe! I must thank the kind reader who...
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22, March 2008
Internet Security vendor Trend Micro had its website hacked recently in what is thought to be a deliberate attempt by hackers to create a launchpad for viruses that install on...
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21, March 2008
If you have friends browsing the internet on a computer made by Apple, tell them to watch out. Not long ago the Mac had just 3% market share of...
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20, March 2008
I've been pro-PC and somewhat anti-Mac my entire life. Back in the 1980s when the Macintosh was a boxy little thing and the PC was a hunk of rubbish...
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19, March 2008
It wasn't long ago that Mac users thought they were immune to computer viruses. Not because the Mac is stronger or better at defeating the viruses, but because the...
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18, March 2008
It's an oldy but a goody. Reports have been circulating of free software doing the rounds which is impregnated with malicious code. This code, also typically known as...
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17, March 2008
It seems that the average home computer user might give more value to protecting personal data than what the UK Government does. Despite being bound by the Data Protection...
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16, March 2008
Global credit and investment firm, GE Money, has put themselves in a tight spot after accepting the blame for losing the personal details of more than 650,000 J.C. Penny customers....
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15, March 2008
Some researchers estimate a third of the world's emails are spam. It's incredible then to think that most spam emails are sent automatically, or robotically by little software programs...
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14, March 2008
Just remember kids: spam doesn't pay. Two American men were jailed for more than five years and fined more than a million dollars for promoting and managing a spam...
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13, March 2008
I don't know whether to be happy or worried about one hacker trying to beat another hacker. It's battle of the computer viruses, and the fight for the right...
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12, March 2008
Some people say that because the internet is so rife with scams and fraud the www stands for Wild Wild West. One of the most popular scams are those flashing...
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11, March 2008
Affiliates are people who make a commission for every sale they generate through emails, websites and advertising. Recently there have been some reports of unethical behaviour from some affiliates...
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10, March 2008
Wow. I didn't actually expect the reaction to yesterday's article about independent testing of antivirus and other security software. The essential premise was that the testing procedures were...
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09, March 2008
In yesterday's article I questioned the independence of some the testing that's conducted by agencies tasked with reviewing antivirus software. A reader asked a very simple question: are these...
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08, March 2008
Many of us have seen these allegedly "independent" antivirus tests that are distributed a couple of times a year. You know the ones - an entity runs all the...
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07, March 2008
Bad news if you're a poker player. Fraudsters are consistently targeting computer users who play at online casinos with phishing attacks. The phishing attacks (designed to con people...
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06, March 2008
In this, the last of our three part dialogue on the Storm Worm we look at the future and ask: where to from here. While the Storm worm continues...
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05, March 2008
Coming Soon! - ZoneAlarm ForceField is the first virtualized browser security product designed to give you complete protection for your online life. It uses a unique virtualization engine that shields...
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05, March 2008
The Storm worm first struck in January 2007. It spammed out fake news headlines about nasty storms in Europe. When readers clicked on links to read more about...
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04, March 2008
I know I've written about the Storm Worm already, but due to the severity and nastiness of this virus I think it's worth continuing my little dialogue. To start...
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03, March 2008
Some people must really hate the practice of sharing music. There's a virus called "Deletemusic" that attempts to delete MP3 files on computers. The virus (and the virus...
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02, March 2008
Back in the "old days" (you know, pre 2006) hackers and cyber-attackers would try to write programs, viruses and other nasty crimeware with the intention of spreading and infecting as...
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01, March 2008
It's very impressive when companies send us letters and material personally addressed to us. They might call us by our first name, mention the city we live in and...
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