What is this thing you call heuristics?
Antivirus software is getting worse at protecting users from new threats, according to two reports which found malware authors are getting better at disguising their creations.…
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What is this thing you call heuristics?
Antivirus software is getting worse at protecting users from new threats, according to two reports which found malware authors are getting better at disguising their creations.…
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Money wired to Russia and Ukraine
Dutch police have arrested 14 suspects who allegedly lent their bank accounts at ABN Amro to cybercriminals in Russia and Ukraine. After being recruited by the fraudsters, the mules received funds taken from phishing scams, which they transferred overseas.…
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Apple pushed out a bushel of patches late last week to fix at least 18 security vulnerabilities in its implementation of Java for Mac users. Then on Monday, the company issued a large update that plugged at least 40 security holes in different versions of its OS X operating system. Another standalone patch eliminates a single security flaw in Safari 3 Beta for Windows. The Java update applies to Mac systems running OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and earlier versions. Apple says none of the vulnerabilities patched in the Java roll-up are present in OS X 10.5 (Leopard). However, a fair number of the fixes in the patch batch for OS X also apply to Leopard. Some of the security vulnerabilities included in the 80 megabyte Java package were fixed by Java maker Sun Microsystems nearly a year ago. For Apple users, these are not trivial flaws: Apple says some […]
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Millions of PCs infected
Telecoms watchdog OPTA has fined three Dutch firms and their two directors a total of €1m for the illegal distribution of spyware.…
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