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Anatomy of a malware scam

The evil genius of XP Antivirus 2008
22 Aug 18:45

Virus writers go for Olympic gold

Back-ends left open to superbly over-muscled Trojan
12 Aug 10:43

McAfee slaps Trojan warning on MS Office Live

Friendly fire from update
6 Aug 17:25

Microsoft charts security vuln MAPP

More transparency, better protection
5 Aug 17:49

Worms spread via spam on Facebook and MySpace

'Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street'
1 Aug 10:06

AVG update nails down stability bugs

Engine upgrade follows LinkScanner traffic spew fix
31 Jul 10:11

Malware authors declare start of World War III (again)

Trojan apocalypse
12 Jul 00:32

Tennis sites hit by drive-by download attacks

You cannot be serious
25 Jun 15:01

Microsoft fights gaming Trojan menace

Resident Evil
23 Jun 23:55

Phlashing attack thrashes embedded systems

Router bricking risk
21 May 16:16

Mass SQL injection hits English language websites

Chinese hackers spread the silent love
21 May 07:02

DVD smut malware blights US forces in Iraq

A different kind of insurgency
12 May 17:38

Firefox language pack provides adware back-door

Ho Chi Hack trail
8 May 11:56

Rogue MP3 Trojan streaks across P2P networks

Worst viral outbreak in three years
7 May 12:54

Zango's adware fox desperate to guard net henhouse

Comment 'Kaspersky's got nothin' on us'
30 Apr 21:55

Anti-virus hacking contest polarizes vendors

Race to Zero intolerance
28 Apr 16:22

VXers slap copyright notices on malware

What happened to honour among thieves?
28 Apr 11:04

Facebook Troll sends mob against Cluley

'Joe Job' social networking attack
23 Apr 08:16

Shrinking patch windows hit by automated attacks

Quick and dirty exploit peril
21 Apr 12:33

Database Trojan infests pro-Tibet websites

Chinese whispers
14 Apr 11:02

Move over Storm - there's a bigger, stealthier botnet in town

400,000 machines get Kraken
7 Apr 13:02

Trend, Sophos and McAfee flunk Vista SP1 anti-virus tests

That would be a FAIL, then
3 Apr 16:52

Storm Worms exploit April Fools

Lazy attack aims to dupe the credulous
1 Apr 13:45

Adware slips between pages of e-book

Iliad reader carries unwelcome surprise
31 Mar 06:02

Unpatched RealPlayer bug paves way for drive-by downloads

ActiveX-ploit
12 Mar 17:59

Infamous malware group calls it quits

29A has left the building
7 Mar 16:02

Hackers find clever new way to hose Google users

Updated IFRAME piggybacking
6 Mar 03:06

Underground tools foil generic virus detection

Covert malware testing
3 Mar 09:06

Orkut worm feeds on scraps

From social networking to social engineering
29 Feb 23:21

Virus writers have girlfriends - official

And some don't even need inflating
15 Apr 2005 16:27

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