Advertisements placed by Google in Web pages are being hijacked by so-called Trojan horse software that replaces the intended text with ads from a different provider, Romanian antivirus company BitDefender says.
The Trojan redirects queries meant to be sent to Google servers to a rogue server, which displays ads from a third party instead of [...]

A House of Lords select committee recently branded the internet a lawless "Wild West". Users must guard against viruses, "spyware" – which allows crooks to access your data or even hijack and use your computer – and a plethora of scams. With a little research, however, keeping safe online is straightforward and free. Here is [...]

 FAIRFAX, Va., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Norman, a specialist in the field
of data security, announced today that its soon to be released security
suite came out on top in a software security test conducted by the computer
magazine PC World Norway. Efficient protection, ease of use, performance
and speed were the features evaluated in [...]

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are not "fully aware" of the importance of anti-spyware.
Get Safe Online, a joint initiative between HM Government, the Serious Organised Crime Agency and leading businesses, has said that while most SMEs are "well aware" of the importance of anti-virus protection for their computer systems other areas of online security [...]

Virus Bulletin, an independent certification body, has revealed that 17 out of the 32 antivirus products it tested in its latest survey failed to pass certification.
Virus Bulletin runs its VB100 study every two months, pitting a range of antivirus products against a range of viruses selected from the WildList, a publicly available list of [...]

Understanding which AV package provides the best level of total protection isn’t easy. Products from Symantec (Norton Antivirus) and McAfee are virtually ubiquitous, but there are a dozen or more smaller players in the market, all of which advertise themselves as being the best solution for total antivirus protection. Since each company creates its own [...]

Ron Paul is not a botmaster.
Security researchers have shut down a network of computers responsible for sending out nearly 200 million spam messages supporting the U.S. presidential candidate last month, and after analyzing the server’s software, it’s clear that there is no such thing as a Ron Paul botnet, according to Joe Stewart, a senior [...]

To file in the Department of Unsolved Mysteries: Some auto-dialing service is calling apparently random people up in the middle of the night and spamming them with recorded 2008 presidential campaign speeches from both parties. 

Global spam volumes have doubled in the past year, showing a shift away from selling products towards spreading malware, according to new research.
The 2008 Internet Security Trends Report from IronPort Systems estimates that 98 per cent of all email traffic is now spam. 

Some malware authors have even gone so far as to include the phrases "no worm, no virus" in the e-card’s text, as if such an assurance made the message safe.
‘Tis the season to be wary. Sadly, malware authors are quick to seize on current events to cloak their social engineering attacks — which typically [...]