Category: Computer threats

Securing and operating modern complex computer and network systems is challenging and demanding. The computer security system is an issue of highest apprehension for IT managers or administrators. As the number of organizations becoming Technology Savoy increasing exponentially, …

Microsoft has warned users of Internet Explorer (IE) 7 that hackers have been attacking a vulnerability in the current version of …

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) concludes that cyber criminals are increasingly becoming more professional – even commercial – in the development, distribution and use of malicious code and services. While cybercrime continues to be driven by financial gain, cyber criminals are …

Be very careful about taking advice from websites. Unless there’s a section telling you who runs the site and what their expertise is, they may not have any. Some sites, particularly those with teenage forums, can give dangerous advice.

The people …

Signature-based detection: Signature-based engines are extremely effective at identifying and blocking known threats. Multiple signature-based engines form an important part of a multi-layered cocktail approach to real time scanning.

However, signature-based malware detection only works for known malware. It is

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In the world of computers, where many of us dwell, there is nothing more disrupting than hearing that there is a new computer threat on the horizon just waiting to find its way onto our systems. In the latest of …

It’s 2007, and malware is technically more sophisticated than ever before. Many of us have had first-hand encounters with spyware, viruses, worms and other malicious programs and sensibly made the decision to take appropriate measures to protect ourselves. Malware is …

Agnitum has been doing a little research into the activities of the web’s so-called “black hats” (hackers and the like), and have spoken with a few of them here in St Petersburg, Russia, on condition of anonymity. This article and …

In this entry we would like to share some thoughts about the current situation in the e-security market. Here we need to distinguish between two rival parties: software vendors and cybercriminals. Let’s start with the latter group.
It seems like modern …

The keystroke logging system, or keylogger, is a tool used to monitor and record keyboard events such as when a user types in a password and other valuable data. That data is later covertly transmitted to the perpetrator/owner/installer of the …

Google Analytics is the best free web stsattics software out there. They recently opened registration to anyone, and even the bad guys seem to have noticed:

Everyday we see different things that the miscreants develop to make their job …

Newsday has a story that, if true, is fascinating. They are reporting that using technology supplied by Iran, Hezbollah fighters were able to listen in on Israeli radio communications. They of course used this intel to evade …