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Five Android antivirus products to add to your mobile arsenal

September 12, 2011 9:39am PDT

Scott Lowe highlights five free or inexpensive antivirus applications that are available for the Android platform.

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Linux repository hit by malware attack

September 12, 2011 9:23am PDT

The kernel.org Linux repository was rooted by a malware attack. While the breach goes under investigation, the websites for kernel.org, Linux Foundation, and Linux.com are down for maintenance.

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Morto: Not your average creepy-crawly worm

September 12, 2011 7:51am PDT

Morto: Not your average creepy-crawly worm article root wow Thanks for the heads up. I have a few user accessing rdc from over the internet. It's through a VPN, but then you never know what one...

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Morto: Not your average creepy-crawly worm

September 12, 2011 6:59am PDT

As malware goes, Morto has something new to offer. It's conversant in DNS-speak. Michael Kassner describes how it works.

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What is a Fake AntiVirus?

September 2, 2011 12:00am PDT

FakeAV or Fake AntiVirus, also known as Rogue AntiVirus, Rogues, or ScareWare, is a class of malware that displays false alert messages to the victim concerning threats that do not really exist....

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Eliminating Errors in Worm Propagation Models

September 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Research on worm propagation has been conducted for over a decade. However, traditional models overestimate the scale of the infected network that leads to propagation errors because of limited...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

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SK Hack by an Advanced Persistent Threat

September 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

This paper summarises the July 2011 intrusion into SK Communications which culminated in the theft of the personal information of up to 35 million people. It describes the use of a trojaned...

Provided by: Command Five Pty

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Malware security report: Protecting your business, customers and the bottom line

August 31, 2011 12:00am PDT

Drive-by malware downloads itself onto a user's system without their consent. Cybercriminals exploit browser and/or plug-in vulnerabilities to deliver the malware by hiding it within a web page as...

Provided by: VeriSign

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Crowdroid: Behavior-Based Malware Detection System for Android

August 20, 2011 12:00am PDT

The sharp increase in the number of smartphones on the market, with the Android platform posed to becoming a market leader makes the need for malware analysis on this platform an urgent issue. In...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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The Microcosmic Model of Worm Propagation

August 19, 2011 12:00am PDT

Each year, large amounts of money and labor are spent on patching the vulnerabilities in operating systems and various popular software to prevent exploitation by worms. Modeling the propagation...

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Six stages of malware response: Streamline your approach

August 17, 2011 11:19am PDT

Dominic Vogel is a rookie security guy making his way in a corporate setting. Here, he offers his streamlined approach to malware response, and the important things you can learn from this routine...

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Macs are as secure as ever

August 15, 2011 1:40pm PDT

Macs are as secure as ever article root Sounds a little odd I think that "In that same period, I estimate we???ve removed thousands of virus and malware infections from hundreds of Windows...

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The Power of Procrastination: Detection and Mitigation of Execution-Stalling Malicious Code

August 11, 2011 12:00am PDT

Malware continues to remain one of the most important security problems on the Internet today. Whenever an anti-malware solution becomes popular, malware authors typically react promptly and...

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Touring Black Hat and DefCon 2011 (photos)

August 10, 2011 4:10am PDT

From a veteran researcher who brings "session cookies" courtesy grandma to a mohawk cut-and-color station, the annual Las Vegas computer security conferences Black Hat and DefCon might be nerdy,...

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Gallery: Ten computer viruses that changed the world

August 9, 2011 5:34am PDT

Gallery: Ten computer viruses that changed the world article root And Chernobyl? Chernobyl (CIH) were extremally destructive and changed completely the core building of OSes. Source: Recovery...

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Crimeware subverts mobile OSs: Is Android next?

August 8, 2011 6:29am PDT

Believe two-factor authentication using SMS texts is secure? Think again. Michael Kassner reports that Zeus malware now has a smartphone partner called Zitmo.

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Gallery: Ten computer viruses that changed the world

August 8, 2011 5:32am PDT

In the last 25 years, the state of the art in automated malfeasance has progressed to the point that it's part of the armory of international geopolitics.

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Apps development: Keeping out mobile malware with code signing

August 4, 2011 12:00am PDT

The launch of the Apple App Store marked the birth of the mobile apps market, and the number of available apps has grown exponentially. But as the mobile app business booms, so do the...

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An Evaluation of Trading Bands as Indicators for Network Telescope Datasets

August 4, 2011 12:00am PDT

Large scale viral outbreaks such as Conficker, the Code Red worm and the Witty worm illustrate the importance of monitoring malevolent activity on the Internet. Careful monitoring of anomalous...

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Attack Patterns for Black Hole, Gray Hole and Worm Hole Attack on Adhoc Networks

August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Attacks by malicious nodes on authentic communicating nodes in an ad hoc network scenario are sometimes severe. Based upon the types of attacks, throughput of the network suffers in different...

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