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How Well Do You Know Your Malware?
May 17, 2012, SecurityNewsDaily Staff
Take the quiz and find out View Full Article »
Banking Trojan Poses As Cash Rebate Reward
May 16, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Variant of the Zeus Trojan asks users to link their credit cards to their Facebook account for a cash reward. View Full Article »
How Cybercriminals Empty Your Online Bank Account
April 24, 2012, Jesse Empsak, SecurityNewsDaily Contributor
Bad guys are beating banks for control of online banking View Full Article »
Hewlett-Packard Ships Virus-Infected Network Switches
April 12, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Certain network switches purchased after April 30, 2011, may be problematic. View Full Article »
Fake Facebook, eBay, US Airways Pages Steal Credit Cards
April 03, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Scams ask victims to "verify" or "confirm" their identity by entering their credit card numbers. View Full Article »
New Chinese Malware Preys on Iran Nuclear Weapons Tension
March 13, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Malware targets U.S. military, researchers say. View Full Article »
Anonymous Supporters Deceived Into Downloading Malware
March 02, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Network of hacking supporters tricked into downloaded banking Trojan in addition to cybercrime tool. View Full Article »
Third-Party Programs, Not Microsoft, Harbor Majority of Security Bugs
February 16, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Microsoft programs only accounted for 10 percent of vulnerabilities. View Full Article »
The End of Malware? Cybersecurity Predictions for 2022
February 14, 2012, Stuart Fox, SecurityNewsDaily Contributor
By 2022, cybersecurity personnel and government officials will no longer make the same old mistakes. Instead, they'll be making entirely new mistakes. View Full Article »
Don't Get Sidelined by a Super Bowl Cyberscam
January 31, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Free tickets to see the big game? Don't bite, it's a Super Bowl scam. View Full Article »
Will Apple's Spectacular Success Invite More Malware?
January 27, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Massive earnings do not mean massive malware for Apple. View Full Article »
It's Alive! 'Frankenmalware' Mutants Arise When Viruses Merge
January 26, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
New virus attaches to worms, creating "malware sandwich." View Full Article »
Computer Virus Swipes Data from Japan's Space Agency
January 13, 2012, SPACE.com Staff
Officials aren't sure how the malware got onto the computer. View Full Article »
Fake Cops Hijack Computers, Demand Ransom for Locked Files
December 19, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Phony messages appear to come from federal police agencies and tell victims that child pornography has been found on their computers. View Full Article »
Researchers Find 66% of Lost USB Drives Contain Malware
December 07, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
USB drives bought from rail auction were riddled with malware. View Full Article »
Facebook Chat Bot Hijacks Accounts, Annoys Users
November 01, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Spam-sending ChatSend app has been "liked" by 136,000 people. View Full Article »
Sneaky Trojan Makes Home in PC Motherboard
September 15, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
New Trojan virus plants itself on a PC's motherboard. View Full Article »
New Windows Worm Preys on Weak Passwords
August 29, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
'Morto' worm is infecting completely up-to-date computers. View Full Article »
'Frisbee' Hack Highlights Weakness of USB Devices
August 04, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
USB devices present hackers with a host of new ways to infect computers. View Full Article »
Massive Browser Attack Hits 90,000 Web Pages
July 26, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Attack has hit nearly 100,000 online commerce websites. View Full Article »
Apple Laptop Batteries Can Be Hacked, Infected With Malware
July 25, 2011, Paul Wagenseil, SecurityNewsDaily Managing Editor
This computer will self-destruct in five seconds View Full Article »
Porn Scam Hits Microsoft Security Center
July 11, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Search results took users to porn pages. View Full Article »
'Indestructible' Malware Strain Infects Millions of PCs
June 30, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
More than 4.5 million PCs enslaved in past three months View Full Article »
Data-Swiping 'Super Mario' Games Infiltrate Chrome Web Store
May 24, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Fake Mario and Luigi want your bookmarks, browsing history View Full Article »
The Era of Mac Malware Immunity Is Over
May 16, 2011, John R. Quain, SecurityNewsDaily Contributor
Welcome to the real world, Apple fans View Full Article »
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