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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 ...

One of my favourite Bash.org quotes is " I beat the internet... the end guy is hard". Now it looks like the Internet really does have an 'end guy'. "TDL-4" is a trojan that has infected more than 4-million PCs and anti-virus experts are touting it as near-indestructible.This nasty ...

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), ...

Not too long ago, the only application of the word ‘virus’ in the context of IT and the internet was a malicious piece of code that wreaked havoc with your computer. Fast forward a couple of years, and whilst ‘virus’ still means the same thing, it is overshadowed by ‘Viral’ ...

Kaspersky Lab data shows that the number of malicious programs targeting mobile devices has more than doubled between August 2009 and December 2010. In 2010, over 65% more new threats targeting mobile devices were detected than in the previous year; and over 1 000 variants from 153 different families of ...

25 years ago today, the world's first computer virus was born in Lahore, Pakistan -- a development that would spawn countless problems for ordinary users and a multi-billion dollar industry dedicated to protecting the world's information from malicious software.As reported by Time magazine in 1988, a shop called Brain ...