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19 January 2011 IT security and control firm Sophos has today published its Security Threat Report 2011, analysing cybercrime during the last year and looking at IT security trends to watch in 2011. A highlight of the report is the findings of Sophos’s latest ‘Social Security’ survey*, which polls computer users on their experiences of
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 19, 2010 – Cameron Diaz has replaced Jessica Biel as the most dangerous celebrity to search for on the Web, according to security company McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE). For the fourth year in a row, McAfee researched popular culture’s most famous people to reveal the riskiest celebrity athletes, musicians, politicians, comedians and
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, has released its latest report on the evolution of spam for the first quarter of 2010 compiled by company experts Darya Gudkova, Elena Bondarenko and Maria Namestnikova. As is stated in the report, the number of phishing attacks on social networking sites has increased. Facebook
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Kaspersky Lab announces the publication of the analytical article ‘The Dangers of Social Networking’, by Georg Wicherski, a malware analyst with the Company. The article analyzes a wide range of IT threats, from the less dangerous types such as run-of-the-mill spam, to the more technically sophisticated drive-by infections. If you click on untrusted links or
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Kaspersky Lab warns of a surge in Koobface, the highly prolific worm infecting social networking sites. The malicious program targets sites such as Facebook and Twitter and uses compromised legitimate websites as proxies for its main command and control server. During the past two weeks, the Kaspersky Lab research team has observed the Koobface live
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, warns of a surge in Koobface, the highly prolific worm infecting social networking sites. The malicious program targets sites such as Facebook and Twitter and uses compromised legitimate websites as proxies for its main command and control server. During the past 2 weeks, the Kaspersky
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of Internet threat management solutions that protect against all forms of malicious software including viruses, spyware, hackers and spam, is recommending that human vulnerabilities need to be patched, to prevent them from being the weakest link in an organisations IT security chain. This recommendation is made in a new paper
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the publication of an analytical article by David Emm, Senior Regional Researcher, UK, Global Research & Analysis Team, titled ‘Patching human vulnerabilities’. The article discusses the human factor and how it influences the problem of information security. The author analyzes the methods by which
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, held the international press tour ‘Cyberthreat Landscape 2009: Outcomes, Trends and Forecasts’ in Moscow from 28-31 January. Kaspersky Lab’s leading specialists supervising the company’s operations in various parts of the world gave presentations on the most important information security issues to representatives of the international
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., December 29, 2009 – McAfee Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today unveiled its 2010 Threat Predictions report. McAfee Labs believes cybercriminals will target social networking sites and third-party applications, use more complex Trojans and botnets to build and execute attacks, and take advantage of HTML 5 to create emerging threats. McAfee Labs also predicts 2010
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