Flashback Trojan still on 650,000 Macs, security company discovers

The Mac Flashback Trojan was still installed on more than half a million Apple computers late last week and is declining only slowly, Russian security company Dr. Web has reported. Although all security companies now agree that the best days of Flashback (or ‘Flashflake’) are now behind it, the new numbers suggest a greater level […]

South Korea discovers downside of high speed internet

Botnets, hacking and the exposure of personal details are price of having superfast internet On one dimly-lit floor of the towering central Seoul headquarters of Korea’s National Police Agency, dozens of hard drives and mobile phones sit on shelves awaiting dissection. Officials flit between cubicles, comparing notes, as above their heads massive LCD screens churn […]

Hollywood discovers science is scarier than zombies

Jude Law, right, in the film Contagion. Photo: Warner Bros Entertainment Inc WHEN Professor Ian Lipkin was first approached to work on a movie about a pandemic virus, he was wary. ”Every few years a filmmaker imagined a world in which a virus transformed humans into flesh-eating zombies,” he recalled in The New York Times, […]

Trusteer Discovers 2nd Malware Variant To Go Financial And Unveils Cybercrime Prevention Platform

BOSTON, Sep. 7, 2011 -Trusteer, the leading provider of cybercrime prevention solutions, today announced new versions of the four products which make up its Cybercrime Prevention Architecture. The new capabilities remove malicious exploits in web page content, fingerprint fraudster machines attempting to access protected web applications, protect iOS and Android mobile devices from financial malware, […]