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First iPhone worm appears - and it's never gonna give you up
First iPhone worm appears - and it's never gonna give you up
It's taken a while, but the first real iPhone worm has appeared, although its payload appears to be relatively benign - unless that is, you dislike Rick Astley, the 1980s pop star from Newton le-Willows in Lancashire.
Nov. 9, 2009
Swine flu could give internet a cold
Swine flu could give internet a cold
A physical pandemic such as the swine flu (H1N1) could swamp internet service providers serving residential users, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office – and the Department Of Homeland Security doesn't have a plan to deal with it.
Nov. 7, 2009
Spearphishing emails target customers of ill-equipped banks.
Spearphishing emails target customers of ill-equipped banks.
The FBI has slammed poor security in financial institutions, after identifying a drastic rise in money being stolen from small to medium-sized businesses via spearphishing emails, it said in an intelligence note early this week.
Nov. 6, 2009
Anti-virus vendors stony-faced at Lose/Lose
Anti-virus vendors stony-faced at Lose/Lose
Anti-virus companies are failing to get the joke after the release of a free arcade game for the Mac that deletes the users' files during play. Lose/Lose warns 'victims' that it is about to delete files on their hard drives before they begin playing, and it keeps its word.
Nov. 6, 2009
Lose/Lose trojan game threat for Apple Mac users
Lose/Lose trojan game threat for Apple Mac users
Users of the Apple Mac have been warned to avoid a game called Lose/Lose which appears to include trojan programme code that deliberately deletes files on the users' hard drive.
Nov. 6, 2009
Cisco, EMC and VMware form cloud computing coalition
Cisco, EMC and VMware form cloud computing coalition
Cisco, EMC - the parent company to RSA Security - and VMware have formed the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a collaboration designed to boost the adoption of virtualisation in the cloud.
Nov. 4, 2009
Giesecke & Devrient play secure Android card
Giesecke & Devrient play secure Android card
Cellular specialist Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has unveiled a memory card for Android mobile phones that is claimed to make applications running on the host Android-compliant handset ultra-secure.
Nov. 4, 2009
Symantec warns about Google Wave invites malware
Symantec warns about Google Wave invites malware
Malware authors are targeting those who missed the initial sign up for Google Wave, according to Symantec.
Nov. 3, 2009
Symantec uncovers new type of Facebook trojan
Symantec uncovers new type of Facebook trojan
IT security vendor Symantec has uncovered a trojan that uses the Facebook social networking portal to communicate with a command and control (C&C) server
Nov. 3, 2009
M86 acquires Finjan; combines IT security research operations
M86 acquires Finjan; combines IT security research operations
M86, the web and messaging security products vendor, has acquired business internet security specialist Finjan for an undisclosed sum of money. The move boosts M86's payroll to a shade more than 300 staff.
Nov. 3, 2009
Chip & PIN invades Australia
Chip & PIN invades Australia
The Chip & PIN system pioneered by French banks in the 1980s - and rolled out across the UK and Europe in recent years - is to be extended to payment cards in Australia, Visa's operation there has announced.
Nov. 3, 2009
US opens cyber security command centre
US opens cyber security command centre
The US has officially opened a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity in Arlington, Virginia.
Nov. 2, 2009