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'Bin Laden captured' spam fooling no one

News A spam email that promises pictures of a captured Osama bin Laden but carries a malicious attachment has failed to spread widely, security experts said on Friday. All versions of the message announced that the al-Qaida leader had been seized and...

6 June 2005, 10:18

Fantasy football virus set to score

News The XF97/Yagnuul-A virus can infect users' .xls spreadsheets once the attachment is opened. The virus relies on social engineering to entice users to open the attachment, said Ron O'Brien, a Sophos senior security analyst.

9 May 2006, 10:48

Worm spells double trouble for PCs

News Lebreat is also a mass-mailer, which means it travels as an attachment in an email message. As is common with email worms, Lebreat uses a number of subject lines, message body texts and names for the attachment, F-Secure said.

18 July 2005, 9:31

'Grand Theft Auto IV' launches amid great expectation

News Were Grand Theft Auto IV to land a similarly eye-popping attachment rate on par with Halo 3's -- at the time, in excess of 40 per cent -- he conjectured, the cross-platform status of the game could spike first-week unit shipments to 9.5 million...

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29 April 2008, 10:28

Parliament attacked with WMF exploit

News The hackers tried to send emails that used a social-engineering technique to lure people into opening an attachment containing the WMF/Setabortproc Trojan horse. The Trojan was hidden as an attachment called 'map.wmf'.

24 January 2006, 9:05

PDF files used in computer attacks

News Emails containing malicious PDF files have been putting computers at risk since Friday, Finnish security software firm F-Secure said on Saturday.The emails sent in bulk looked like credit card statements, and contained an attachment called 'report...

29 October 2007, 8:51

Sober worm variant makes the rounds

News Sober.P, which operates in a similar fashion to other Sober worms, uses a subject header in an email to try to entice people into opening an attachment. A new variant of the mass-mailing Sober worm has been discovered and is spreading among...

3 May 2005, 10:02

Mytob worm picks up phishing trick

News Previously, the worm propagated as an attachment in the message itself. The creators of recent Mytob worm variants have borrowed tricks from phishers to infect more computer users, security experts are warning.

10 June 2005, 9:24

News.blog: Wii Zapper announced

News The curvy, simplified white gun holds both the remote and nunchuck attachment in place, with the remote's B and nunchuck's Z buttons fixed like triggers on the device. Over a year ago, before the Wii was even released, rumours were rife about the...

12 July 2007, 11:12

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

Wii UK pricing and launch date announced

News Both the European and Australian packages will contain the white console, one Wii-mote controller, the nunchuck attachment, and the game Wii Sports. Nintendo has announced that its next-generation Wii console will hit Europe on 8 December for a...

15 September 2006, 17:38

Google Talk gets upgrade for first birthday

News But people who use other email software will have to download the MP3 voice mail attachment to hear it. Google Talk, which is celebrating its first year with an upgrade, will from today let people easily transfer files and leave other people voice...

16 August 2006, 10:10

Fresh Bagle and Mytob variants squirm loose

News The attachment is a ZIP archive that will attempt to download a Trojan horse from a list of Web sites, if unpacked and run. Several new variants of the Bagle virus and Mytob worm are spreading, but they won't pose a major threat if people take the...

1 June 2005, 11:10

Making 1GB downloads easier to handle

News Everyone has a problem with email attachment limits," he said. Pando Networks is going to try to make it easier for friends to send video to one other. The start-up company last week kicked off a public beta of its service, a peer-to-peer network...

5 June 2006, 9:26

Top 10 viruses: A Christmas special

News The worm spreads by replying to emails in a victim's inbox, making it look as if the message is solicited, and sending an attachment, which can have any one of 30 names. The virulent Badtrans worm has trounced the other viruses to take the number...

4 January 2002, 11:15