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Pop-up program reads keystrokes, steals passwords

News Trojan horse installed through pop-up ad has watch list of banking sites. Victims visit sites, type in passwords, hand info to hackers.

Wednesday, June 30 2004 12:05 PM

Tags: Hacking, Spam and phishing, Banking

Panel paints grim picture of cybercrime battle

News Consumers, government and technology companies all need to pitch in to fight cybercrime, experts on a security panel agree.

Thursday, June 02 2005 03:53 PM

Tags: Policy and management

Web on watch for common enemies

News news analysis Banner ad attack and threat of Java flaw point--again--to the dangers of relying on a single technology.

Tuesday, November 30 2004 11:12 AM

Tags: Viruses and worms, Java

Conficker infected critical hospital equipment, expert says

News Hundreds of PCs and medical devices at hospitals in the U.S. were found to be infected with the Conficker worm recently, a security expert says.

Friday, April 24 2009 12:14 PM

Tags: Viruses and worms, Access Control, removable storage, computer, SCADA, Hospital, Worker, Marcus Sachs, network, Microsoft Windows

Tainted products--sabotage or shoddy manufacturing?

News Panelists at the RSA security conference don't know why some products arrive on store shelves in the U.S. infected with viruses.

Wednesday, April 22 2009 10:41 AM

Tags: Viruses and worms, Malware, Manufacturing, globalization, intellectual property, Marcus Sachs, digital photograph, U.S., industry, supply chain

US Homeland Security gives cyber-protection advice

News Security advice and best practices aimed at businesses, educational establishments and end users, will be available online this month under a U.S. government initiative.

Thursday, October 02 2008 05:23 AM

Tags: Security, IT professional, Secure Networks, Marcus Sachs, network, Homeland Security, network security, blog, Web Site, Security

New Phatbot worm may be on the loose

News A new variant of the Phatbot worm may be attempting to attack SQL Server ports, according to a warning issued by the SANS Institute.

Tuesday, April 20 2004 09:46 AM

Tags: Servers, Viruses and worms

Bofra burrows in through banner ads

News  Hackers may be using banner ad servers to multiply the impact of the Internet Explorer virus, security experts warn.

Tuesday, November 23 2004 10:19 AM

Tags: Viruses and worms, Internet advertising

Attackers strike using Web ads

News  Online intruders hit a server owned by advertising host Falk and use it to distribute a destructive program via banner ads.

Tuesday, November 23 2004 10:48 AM

Tags: Hacking, Internet advertising