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An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows, according to data collected by iDefense, a Verisign company. Michael La Pilla, an iDefense “malcode” [...]
Choose a good company to work for. Before he interviewed for the job he researched it to be sure it was a good company to work for. Alstom values its employees and proves that with its actions. At the end of its last fiscal year, for instance, it gave every employee several shares of stock [...]
Internet con artists are turning to an old tool – the phone – to keep tricking Web users who have learned not to click on links in unsolicited e-mails. A batch of e-mails recently making the rounds were crafted to appear as if they came from PayPal, EBay Inc.’s online payment service. Like traditional phony [...]
Visa U.S.A. Inc. and MasterCard International Inc. will release new security rules in the next 30 to 60 days for all organizations that handle credit card data, a Visa official said this week. The rules will be the first major updates to the one-year-old Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard, which analysts said is [...]
Is your computer suddenly behaving erratically? Sluggish performance, more-frequent computer crashes, and a steady stream of pop-up ads can be symptoms of a spyware infection. In an era when people frequently download music, videos, screensavers, and other programs from the Net, spyware infections have grown all too common. At least half of the world’s computers [...]
Computer viruses are like real-life viruses: When they’re flying around infecting every PC (or person) in sight, they’re scary. But after the fact…well, they’re rather interesting, albeit in a gory kind of way. With this in mind, we shamelessly present, in chronological order, the 10 most destructive viruses of all time. MyDoom (2004), at its [...]