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September 15, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 5:32 PM/EST

SANS: Un-Patched Client Side Apps Taking Toll

Client side vulnerabilities are leaving many organizations open to targeted spear phishing and other attacks, according to experts with SANS.

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September 4, 2009

Friday, September 04, 2009 3:07 PM/EST

Symantec Goes Under the Hood of Waledac Botnet

A Symantec researcher has released a new paper outlining the operations of the Waledac botnet, laying bare what has kept the botnet going strong.

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September 3, 2009

Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:33 AM/EST

Smartphone Users Ignoring Security Risks

A new survey of 1,000 smartphone users conducted by Trend finds that people are not yet sensitive to matters of mobile security, while threats to handheld devices do appear to be on the rise.

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August 26, 2009

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:31 AM/EST

Survey: Hackers on Vacation Before Q4 Saturation

Malicious hackers like to take off during Q3, much like their adversaries in IT security, before putting the hammer down over the holidays.

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August 10, 2009

Monday, August 10, 2009 10:01 PM/EST

Spam Growing Upwards, Onwards

Spam seemingly only changes by returning to its roots, and ebbing its volumes ever upwards, no matter what we do about it.

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July 24, 2009

Friday, July 24, 2009 12:49 PM/EST

The Business of Botnets

Everyone knows botnets are a big business. But how big? Kaspersky Lab has some statistics that may surprise you.

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July 22, 2009

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:44 PM/EST

U.S. Leads the Way in Malware, Spam

Sophos' latest report puts the United States on top of the malware hosting and spam sending lists.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:22 AM/EST

Online Scam Smiths Attempt to Hang the DJ

Crafty 419 scammers are finding aspiring DJs on sites like Facebook and attempting to lure them into forking over some cash to pursue their dreams on the ones and twos.

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July 20, 2009

Monday, July 20, 2009 9:30 PM/EST

Can Malware Help Erin Andrews?

ESPN reporter Erin Andrews got stung by a spy camera, but thanks to the work of an unexpected group of allies, malware scammers, she may get a small measure of justice.

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July 17, 2009

Friday, July 17, 2009 7:30 AM/EST

Sexy New Mobile Botnet on the Move?

Security researchers are pointing to a recent SMS spam-bred attack as evidence that malware gangs may have finally begun attempting to launch botnets that target mobile devices.

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