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Sony stops production of rootkit CDs

News Sony BMG Music Entertainment said on Friday that it will suspend production of CDs with copy-protection technology that has been exploited by virus writers to try to hide their malicious code on PCs. Security experts blasted the technology because...

14 November 2005, 9:46

Flaw found in Sophos antivirus software

News The company said that Sophos Anti-Virus can potentially be attacked by a buffer overflow, which knocks out a program by flooding it with data. An update for Sophos Anti-Virus Small Business Edition will be released on Friday, and all other versions...

29 July 2005, 9:45

Microsoft claims Internet security is improving

News Speaking at the company's TechEd conference in Amsterdam, Detlef Eckert, chief security advisor for Microsoft, said although the level of hacking and virus attacks remains constant, people are being more vigilant about online threats.

6 July 2005, 9:34

Microsoft's antivirus fails to protect Vista

News Virus Bulletin, backed by a team of Oxfordshire-based security researchers, tested 15 antivirus software packages used by businesses and designed specifically for Vista, Microsoft's newest operating system, and released to businesses two months ago.

7 February 2007, 8:50

Sober worm makes a comeback

News Sophos said that the worm accounts for around 77 percent of all virus activity it is seeing. The company said the Sober variant is still spreading, even though large corporations appear to have patched the vulnerabilities that the virus uses to...

9 May 2005, 9:02

Sober worm hits new heights

News Sophos says the mass-mailing worm accounted for 5.4 percent of all email the company saw over the weekend and 84 percent of virus activity. That represents an increase compared with Friday, when Sophos said the worm accounted for 4.65 percent of...

10 May 2005, 8:14

TomTom sat-navs shipped with viruses

News It has come to our attention that a small, isolated number of TomTom GO 910s, produced between September and November 2006, may be infected with a virus. TomTom had not confirmed the exact viruses present in the copy.exe and host.exe files at the...

30 January 2007, 9:37

Mobile malware to accelerate

News Mobile malware is not the only area expected to rise in the new year, said Craig Schmugar, McAfee's virus research manager. They're gaining increased interest from the virus [writing] community," Schmugar said.

21 December 2005, 8:52

New IM worm chats with victims

News When unsuspecting users have responded, perhaps asking if the attachment contained a virus, the worm has replied: "lol no its not its a virus", IMlogic said. You can now instant message with a worm. A new worm that targets users of AOL Instant...

7 December 2005, 9:06

Nokia to inoculate phones with antivirus software

News Mobile phone virus outbreaks are a small but emerging threat, security experts have said. Yet research firm Gartner recently predicted that a fast-spreading phone virus or worm is unlikely to appear before 2008.

6 October 2005, 9:01

Perspective: Goodbye Apple security?

News Praying that someone hasn't figured out how to get a virus over the Windows/Mac bridge certainly isn't going to work -- and who knows if you will even be able to reboot once the virus has infiltrated your system?

4 May 2006, 8:44

Symantec aims for online service

News Sykes also said there was the possibility that tiny pieces of an application or a single virus scan could be resold by organisations such as online banks, which may choose to ensure their customers are not infected with a virus or spyware before...

9 December 2005, 8:40

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