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A New Computer Virus Goes After Factories Stuxnet is a new computer virus on the block. Actually, the block is pretty good too. It’s one of the first viruses seen that’s designed for computers on the factory floor. Car plants, paint plants, metal fabrication factories, you name it – computers that [...] Your Average Ten-Year-Old’s To-Do List: Do Homework, Practice the Piano, Build a Trojan Horse Virus You keep hearing about the dangers of the Internet – nasties with names like myDoom and Autorun.ini are supposed to be waiting for you to make one misstep on the Internet, and they latch onto you, [...] Professional Singers Search for Song Lyrics – but beware… Few things will turn an audience against you quicker than not knowing the song lyrics. Everyone knows when you are muffing your lines. Just like a bad actor in a play, when you screw up the words it really makes the whole thing seem amateurish. The [...] A New Trojan Horse Attacks the Military and the Banks NetWitness is probably a name you haven’t heard of, but the company is a major in corporate computer security – antivirus for the big boys, if you will. And in February, NetWitness called the alarm on a major Trojan horse attack [...] Adware, spyware and computer viruses share some similarities, one of which is that all three are major nuisances for computer users. Let’s differentiate the three. Spyware is software that does not intentionally harm your computer. What they do is to create ways for someone else than the owner to communicate with [...] San Francisco – The Conficker worm’s creators are evidently toying with ways to put the pervasive computer virus to work firing off spam or spreading rogue anti-virus applications called “scareware”. An April update sent to a tiny percentage of infected computers had the machines retrieve components of notorious Storm and Waledac [...] Tokyo – Japan has reported no human cases of deadly swine flu so far – but a computer virus of the same name has been spreading on the Internet in recent days, authorities warned on Thursday. Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) said on its website that a suspicious Japanese-language [...] San Francisco – Computer security top guns around the world watched warily as the dreaded Conficker worm squirmed deeper into infected machines with the arrival of an April 1st trigger date. The malicious software evolved, as expected, from East to West, beginning in time zones first to greet April Fool’s Day. [...] San Francisco – The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm’s authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared. As many as 12 million computers have been infected by Conficker. Security firm Trend [...] San Francisco – The Conficker worm’s April 1st trigger date came and went without the bedevilling computer virus causing any mischief but security specialists warn that the threat is far from over. Conficker did just what the “white hats” tracking it expected – the virus evolved to better resist extermination and [...] Boston – A malicious software program known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said. Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, is quietly turning thousands of personal computers into servers of e-mail [...] To continue… In just a year production of polymorphic viruses became a “trade”, followed by their “avalanche” in 1993. The authors of viruses were competing not in creating the toughest virus but the toughest polymorphic mechanism instead. These viruses require special methods of detection, including emulation of the viruses’ executable code, [...] |
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