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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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Tsunami response quick among cybercriminals

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Mar 11, 2011

Miscreants releasing scams, phishing, scareware... within a matter of hours.

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Tough weekend for AV giants as FPs and DNS issues hit

Trend false alert cripples users' systems, Sophos sites taken out by DNS mixup.
Trend false alert cripples users' systems, Sophos sites taken out by DNS mixup. Two of the larger security firms, Trend Micro and Sophos, had a busy weekend cleaning up after… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2008/09/tough-weekend-av-giants-fps-and-dns-issues-hit/

DNS flaw exploitation danger growing

Slow patchers targeted by sophisticated attacks.
Slow patchers targeted by sophisticated attacks. The serious vulnerability in the implementation of DNS systems has been targeted by malicious attacks, as security watchers have… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2008/08/dns-flaw-exploitation-danger-growing/

Patch Tuesday sees serious DNS flaws fixed

Nothing marked critical, but some very important patches issued.
Nothing marked critical, but some very important patches issued.Microsoft's latest 'Patch Tuesday' round of security updates for once contains no bulletins marked as 'critical',… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2008/07/patch-tuesday-sees-serious-dns-flaws-fixed/

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