16 result(s) displayed for virus (1 - 16 of 16):

Preparing For Cyber Attacks

While ensuring the security of physical structures and events such as ball games is crucial to a comprehensive national security plan, we must not forget about cyber security and as terrorist threats from various groups and even nations continue, it...

Posted on July 17, 2008 11:57 AM

Half a Million Hacked Websites

I don't mean to sound alarmist but half a million hacked websites? is that how many there are? In other words if users hit any of 500,000 sites using IE they will likely be infected? Talk about an electronic pandemic....

Posted on April 26, 2008 3:56 PM

iPhone Denial of Service Vulnerability

Radware today discovered the iPhone Safari browser is vulnerable to denial of service attack. The specific model being tested was the Apple iPhone1.1.4. In order to experience this problem a user must browse to a website containing malicious Javascript...

Posted on April 15, 2008 6:32 AM

Gadget Virus Complaints

It is enough to make you cry. That shiny new gadget you crave, went out and purchased and carried home with the utmost care could be home to a virus living snugly in your device's memory waiting for someone unsuspecting...

Posted on March 13, 2008 8:55 PM

Virus Fights Brain Cancer

Check out this great article on how a virus can be altered to cure brain cancer. While this is not something we can use to cure humans as of yet, the potential for this breakthrough is great. "The brain cancers...

Posted on March 13, 2008 10:07 AM

New Germ Free Keyboard

How many colds and viruses are picked up because of shared keyboards and phones? Now there is a solution for the problem of spreading germs through shared keyboards at least. If you think this is a small problem consider...

Posted on February 27, 2008 12:24 PM

SpamThru: P2P Anti-Virus Trojan

A state of the art p2p Trojan horse called SpamThru includes its own anti-virus software to ensure it isn’t competing with other viruses or Trojan horses. We are seeing viruses enter the age the of the ultimate selfishness where they...

Posted on October 23, 2006 11:32 AM

Protecting IMS/UMA and IP Communications

The advent of any technology is when unscrupulous users see if they can take advantage of it. The first computer worms, viruses and spam are a few examples of how good technology was used by those with malicious intent to...

Posted on October 3, 2006 8:00 AM

Microsoft Windows, Outlook, and Exchange Vulnerabilities

I thought I would pass this security alert on. Seems like a lot of security problems this past few weeks. I am looking forward to more secure operating systems/software in the future.---------------------                     National Cyber Alert System                 Technical Cyber Security Alert...

Posted on January 11, 2006 7:08 AM

The Real Hacker Damage

Like any good computer Samaritan I do all I can to avoid having my computer taken over and used in denial of service attack or to send volumes of spam messages on behalf of those malicious people who benefit from...

Posted on January 9, 2006 7:53 PM

Airborne

A coworker told me about Airborne and how it helps kill a cold quickly. I have taken these effervescent tablets a few times over the past year and they seem to work very well. I have even had great success...

Posted on December 21, 2005 8:28 AM

Skype Fear

By now you may have heard about how Skype uses a proprietary protocol and as such can be dangerous on your network as you aren't exactly sure what its doing. Recently a more pressing fear has popped onto the scene....

Posted on December 21, 2005 7:24 AM

US Cybersecurity

Here is an overview of the state of US cybersecurity. I am pretty surprised and how many alleged state-sponsored attacks there are. Articles like this make you realize that security on the Internet will only grow in importance over time....

Posted on December 12, 2005 8:54 AM

ICE

TMC’s Bob Liu and Tom Keating wrote an excellent article on Microsoft and Cisco collaborating on the ICE standard, a technology used to enable VoIP traffic to more easily permeate firewalls in a secure fashion. Currently, session border controllers (SBCs)...

Posted on November 11, 2005 10:46 AM

Ban Skype

Info-Tech Research says you should ban corporate Skype usage ASAP. Should you? Well they cite a few reasons you should such as:Skype is not standards-compliant, allowing it and any vulnerability to pass through corporate firewalls.Skype's encryption is closed source and...

Posted on November 10, 2005 12:24 PM

LooksToGoodToBeTrue

For some reason when I learned of this website I thought of MC Hammer and Too Legit 2 Quit (Hey Hey) but LooksTooGoodToBeTrue is a real honest-to goodness site that is worth visiting before you get a computer for the...

Posted on November 9, 2005 9:32 PM