malware

Scared about your online identity being compromised through Facebook or Google's clingy online presences? You'd probably be less happy about those you don't know about. I'm referring to those who used to spam your inbox or infect your PC with trojans and the like. Those are old school though. With ...

Pay-per-click (PPC) is one of the biggest ways of making money online. And wherever there is big money involved, fraud of some kind will appear eventually, and it happened in the form of "click-fraud", where fake clicks are generated to increase PPC rewards. This has prompted Microsoft's security and malware ...

Ever tried to log into your Facebook or Google account, only to be asked to enter your credit card details? Of course the two most popular websites in the world would be a prime target for anyone looking to plant some malware, but according to a new study, it's getting ...

You may recall that Instagram released an Android app earlier this month, and managed to blow past 5-million downloads in the first six days after the version was released. Now it seems the launch has been used as an opportunity to capitalise on the popularity of the app and spread ...

Thanks to better spam filtering techniques, most of us probably don’t see too many ads for “herbal Viagra” and similar concoctions in our inboxes these days, but that doesn’t mean spam isn’t still big business. According to the latest Threats Report by Intel’s online security firm McAfee (PDF), the overall ...

The mystery virus which reportedly struck the US Air Force's unmanned drone fleet has been dismissed as a "nuisance" by the US Air Force.In the first official confirmation of the virus, Air Force Space Command said that while computers at the Nevada base were infected, the virus posed no serious ...

Cybercrime costs the world US$114-billion every year. That's according to a report from global software security firm Symantec. The report adds that some 431-million adults have been victims of cybercrime in the past year.When adjusted to include financial losses and time lost, the global cost of cybercrime goes up ...

Spam is on the decrease, but still accounts for around 76 percent of the world's email traffic. That's according to the latest Symantec Intelligence Report. Symantec is the largest maker of security software for computers.Interestingly, Saudi Arabia tops the list the most spammed countries on Earth, with a spam rate ...

Only launched at the end of June, Google+’s growth -- having already reached more than 10 million users in its first weeks -- has been astounding. With that in mind, it’s hardly surprising that the new social network has already attracted the attention of cybercriminals.Online security firms have identified ...

The Mac scareware that started popping up recently has got a little more insidious. Not quite a full-blown virus, it still requires a clueless or distracted user to install it, but the latest version does not require an administrator password to be entered. It started on May 2 (timeline here), ...