Archive for July 31, 2012

Security Research Report Confirms Drastic Rise in Spam, Virus and …

WIth Malware on the rise and know end in site. Make sure you have a good Anti-Malware product. I like Microsoft Security Essentials the best windows.microsoft.com/MSE. And don’t click on links on websites you don’t know anything about. I use the Alexa tool bar to check out a sites traffic rank. I figure if it has a decent ranking it is trusted by a lot of people so it is probably OK. www.alexa.com

Computer malware, or what may be categorized as spam, spyware or viruses by many, has always been among the most hated things in today’s fast-paced and Internet-connected world. In the latest analysis by a researcher team at German

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Stuxnet Virus Inspires Software Maker

In late 2010, the Iranian government officially admitted that their nuclear facilities were severely infected by a computer virus, believed to be the fruit of a cyber-attack. The virus, developed by a large, skilled development team, is believed to

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Shadow Government: Cyber weapons are tools of the weak

News reports describing the U.S. role in developing the Stuxnet computer virus, and similar allegations about the existence of a second computer virus, named Flame, have sparked a much-needed debate of cyberwarfare and cybersecurity. President Obama Foreign Policy (blog)

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Senators introduce amended cybersecurity measure – CNET Mobile

In a move to get cybersecurity legislation approved before the Senate recess, Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and four colleagues introduced a modified

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Phone scam aimed at computer virus cleanup – ConnectAmarillo.com

With more and more personal information saved on your computers, protecting your identity has www.connectamarillo.com/news/story.aspx?id=775992

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Android malware steals location data from mobile devices

Symantec on Tuesday joined other vendors offering tools to stop such mobile malware with its own: Mobile Security for Android.

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Web goes dark for Canadians with DNSChanger computer virus

If you are one of the thousands of people whose computer was infected with the DNSChanger virus and never wiped clean, chances are you’re reading this at work or on a mobile device because your internet access has been cut off today. You can get it



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snopes.com: DNSChanger Virus

Origins: Thousands of computer users could lose access to the Internet on July 9 due to a virus, DNSChanger, that once infected approximately 4 million

www.snopes.com/computer/virus/dnschanger.asp

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Malware Monday around the world as FBI probes computer virus

People around the world trying to access the Internet on Monday may be blocked from doing so if their computer is infected with hacker-created malicious software. The viruses were designed to redirect Internet traffic through rogue DNS…

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