Up, up, and away with malware!
When déjà vu is Flashback on a Mac, you’ve got trouble
April 12 Leave a Comment
How to remove the pesky trojan
Security breach exposes Tufts alumni records
June 8, 2010 Leave a Comment
7,000 records exposed by unknown malware
Local high school students are serious researchers
Dec. 1, 2009 Leave a Comment
Brookline senior first to study hepatitis-diabetes connection
Free anti-malware tool Microsoft Security Essentials is live
Sept. 29, 2009 Leave a Comment
No excuses, protect yourself
Harry Potter and the half-virus-infected computer
July 14, 2009 2 Comments
Malware artists are targeting the Harry Potter craze to infect your computers.
The how and why of IT lockdown
June 22, 2009 Leave a Comment
The best thing to arm yourself with is a good education.
Microsoft to offer free anti-malware software
June 19, 2009 1 Comment
I’m a PC and I don’t have a communicable disease.
Conficker what?
April 2, 2009 1 Comment
Well, if you’re reading this, you’ve apparently survived the Conficker Disaster of 2009. Congratulations! Actually, the Conficker worm, which has been quietly distributing itself across Windows PCs since 2008, was supposed to start phoning home Wednesday. Reports are conflicted whether or not anything has actually happened yet. Most experts agree that it could be a [...]
Do you have a digitally transmitted disease?
Feb. 6, 2009 1 Comment
Security software vendor PC Tools says that February presents a new risk to consumers who frequent virtual networking websites and who are searching for love online-a group otherwise known as the “digitally active.” On January 23, PC Tools reported on a new computer worm disguised as a Valentine’s Day program: Waledac worm victims can be [...]
Dangerous celebs to Google?
Sept. 16, 2008 Leave a Comment
Research from security firm McAfee shows that some celebrities are just dangerous to Google and search for around the web because of the litany of fake websites out there that try to infect your computer with viruses and malicious code as you innocently seek out wallpaper and screensavers of your favs. Brad Pitt leads the [...]
McAfee identifies “Downloader-UA.h,” first medium risk malware in three years
May 6, 2008 Leave a Comment
McAfee Avert Labs reported Tuesday the most significant malware outbreak in three years with more than 500,000 detections of a Trojan horse they’re calling “Downloader-UA.h,” which is spreading by masquerading as a media file. “The malicious MP3 music or MPEG video files have appeared on popular file-sharing services such as Limewire and eDonkey,” Avert Labs [...]
Case mod of the year?
Feb. 8, 2008 Leave a Comment
It’s Friday afternoon. It’s been a long week. Here’s one of those email forwards that was too hilarious to ignore. After going through a virus attack, losing a hard drive, fighting off hackers, upgrading all my software, installing fire-walls, being threatened with being cut-off by my email provider, and a host of other problems… I [...]
MySpace page sends fake XP update
Jan. 11, 2008 1 Comment
McAfee Avert Labs announced Friday a Trojan horse attack disguised as a Microsoft update on a particular MySpace profile. Attackers send friend requests to the victim MySpace users. Clicking on the person’s picture or name link loads a profile page with what looks like a legitimate Windows Automatic Updates pop-up box. When the user clicks [...]
11-year-old hacks iPhone
Jan. 9, 2008 3 Comments
What appeared to be a legitimate iPhone application, “iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep,” turned out to be a piece of malicious software intended to ruin functionality on affected phones. The programmer of this dangerous piece of code was an eleven-year-old boy. Using the installer.app feature on the iPhone, users can access the diverse world of third-party [...]
Worm found on Google Orkut
Dec. 20, 2007 Leave a Comment
Almost 400,000 members of Google’s social networking site, Orkut, were victimized by a new spam worm spreading around the site, said McAfee’s Avert Labs. “While the worm doesn’t appear to harm users’ PCs, it does impact their profile and spread from friend to friend,” said McAfee. “This virus will add the user to a community [...]
