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RSA gives insight into anatomy of attack on its systems

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Apr 5, 2011

Publicly available information used to spear phish employees.

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Major email service provider suffers data breach

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Apr 5, 2011

Financial institutions among affected customers.

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April issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Apr 1, 2011

The April issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.

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Keylogger on Samsung laptops proves to be false alarm

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Mar 31, 2011

AV product wrongly flags malware based on existence of directory.

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South Korea proposes to make security software mandatory

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Mar 30, 2011

Law enables government to search PCs of those who do not comply.

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Rogue SSL certificates issued for popular websites

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Mar 24, 2011

Certificates revoked, but browsers still need to be updated.

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Cutwail botnet sent 1.7 trillion spam messages

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Mar 18, 2011

Operators made several million through botnet.

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Spam levels take a nose dive as Rustock apparently taken down - update

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Mar 17, 2011

Eerie silence from Rustock botnet. Microsoft reported to have co-ordinated take down.

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Increase in use of mobile anti-malware protection

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Mar 16, 2011

Poll shows smartphone users more likely to use anti-malware protection on their phones than three years ago.

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Taking Brain home

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Mar 14, 2011

Short film features Mikko Hyppönen returning first PC virus to its birthplace.

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Norton FP trashes Chinese systems

Vital DLLs flagged as malware disable Windows XP across China.
Vital DLLs flagged as malware disable Windows XP across China. A serious false positive, caused by an erroneous update to Symantec's Norton Anti-virus product range issued late… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/05/norton-fp-trashes-chinese-systems/

1.4 million Chinese infected over holiday week

May vacations bring trojan avalanche for gamers and filesharers.
May vacations bring trojan avalanche for gamers and filesharers. Chinese computers, in heavy use with many people off work for the Labour Day holiday week, have suffered a major… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/05/1-4-million-chinese-infected-over-holiday-week/

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