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US Postal Service accused of spamming

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Dec 15, 2006

Customer email campaign in breach of CAN-SPAM regulations.

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Yet more Word zero-day woes

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Dec 15, 2006

Possible third vulnerability in popular software exploited.

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UK phishing up 8000% in two years, says FSA

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Dec 15, 2006

Government report shows massive rise in scams.

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Putting a price on spam

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Dec 14, 2006

Email-forwarding system lets users set a fee to let spam through.

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Ransom attacks hit webmail

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Dec 14, 2006

Accounts held hostage by data-stealing extortionists.

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Patch Tuesday leaves Word open to attack

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Dec 13, 2006

Old and new zero-day vulnerabilities to remain unpatched.

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Sophos vulnerabilities found, patched

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Dec 13, 2006

Fixes issued for archive handling problems.

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Smartphone security sphere to reach $5 billion by 2011

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Dec 11, 2006

Market analysts foresee boom in mobile threats and security market.

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MIME tricks beat email virus scanners

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Dec 11, 2006

Simple encoding dodges slip malware past gateways.

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Adobe hit by second vulnerability

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Dec 8, 2006

More document software security worries.

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Kaspersky sues Rising

Feuding AV firms to fight it out in court.
Feuding AV firms to fight it out in court.Kaspersky's Chinese subsidiary has brought a court case against local rival Rising, after an escalating war of words between the two… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/07/kaspersky-sues-rising/

Symantec presenter spotted using KAV

Another update embarrassment as rival software pops up.
Another update embarrassment as rival software pops up. After the recent damaging false positive incident in China, which has led Symantec to offer free software to those hit by… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/06/symantec-presenter-spotted-using-kav/

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/

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