Antivirus specialist Symantec has joined a security organisation alongside Microsoft, despite having previously come to very public blows with the software giant over its willingness to share security information on Vista. Announced at the RSA Conference Europe 2007 on Tuesday, Symantec and Microsoft will join the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SafeCode), which claims to be a not-for-profit organisation aimed at increasing trust… read more »
November 12th, 2007 in
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McAfee has announced that it will acquire certification vendor ScanAlert in a deal potentially worth $75 million. McAfee will pay $51 million up front for the Napa, Calif.-based company, as well as $24 million if performance targets are met. The acquisition is McAfee’s second in weeks. The company acquired encryption provider SafeBoot for $350 million on Oct. 8 to boost its enterprise data security offerings.
Dave DeWalt, McAfee president a… read more »
November 5th, 2007 in
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Computer users should watch out for a talking virus that infects their machine, an anti-virus company has warned. The BotVoice.A Trojan uses the Microsoft Windows text reader to play the following: “You have been infected; I repeat you have been infected and your system files have been deleted. Sorry. Have a nice day and bye bye,” according to anti-virus researchers at PandaLabs. The computer repeats the words, while the malware deletes the c… read more »
Hacking group warez has released a patch allowing gamers to run Halo 2 and Shadowrun, both released by Microsoft as Windows Vista-only titles, on the firm’s older Windows XP operating system. It had been claimed that neither title would be able to run successfully using the older DirectX 9 graphics engine, with Microsoft urging gamers to take the plunge and switch to the Vista.
The news is sure to irk Microsoft who may now face an increased del… read more »
A man suspected of creating and spreading a mobile phone virus has been arrested by police in Spain, according to reports. The 28-year-old was arrested in Valencia following a seven month investigation by the Spanish authorities. The man is accused of writing and distributing over 20 different versions of the Cabir and Commwarrior worms, which attempt to infect mobile phones running the Symbian operating system.
As many as 115,000 mobile phones m… read more »
Symantec has released a free public beta of Norton AntiBot, which uses behaviour analysis to detect malware. The software is based on existing technology from Sana Security, with a few minor additions from Symantec’s SONAR behavioural scanning technology that is now included in Norton products.
Symantec says AntiBot is meant as a supplement to anti-virus software, not a replacement, and doesn’t use traditional virus signatures. Instea… read more »
A new hacking method is causing concern for the lengths it goes to avoid detection by security software and researchers. The attack involves a website that has been hacked to host malicious code, an increasingly common trap on the Internet. If a user visits one of the sites with an unpatched machine, it’s possible that the computer can become automatically infected with code that can record keystrokes and steal financial data typed into for… read more »
Three variants of a smartphone Trojan, which requires less user interaction than previous mobile malware to infect devices, have been seen in the wild, according to security experts.
Different forms of the Viver Trojan, or Trojan-SMS.SymbOS.Viver, were placed on a popular file-sharing site, disguised as a photo editor and a set of video codecs, the security specialist said.
Viver, once downloaded by the user, immediately starts sending SMS messag… read more »
