Viruses

Wall Street Beat: Facebook rides wave of tech, Internet IPOs

AVG Technologies' IPO Thursday may be a warning about high-priced offerings, however

Accused Kelihos botmaster’s former employer ‘angered’ at revelation

Security firm Returnil says allegations are 'disturbing and repugnant'

Social engineering attacks on the enterprise are trending upward

Korea Cleans Up Its Malware Act

After being one of the worst offenders for malware, the south gets serious about malware. The north is still hoping for electricity.

Facebook easily infiltrated by data-harvesting bots, researchers find

Researchers build network of social bots to test how many Facebook users befriend them

History of malware: from script kiddies to rootkits

A scary look at how much more dangerous malware has become since the 1970s.

Air Force goes on cyberdefensive about attack drone virus

Infected Windows-based operating system was not part of flight control program.

Peer-to-peer update to Zeus Trojan confers resistance to take-downs

The biggest number of computers infected with this new Zeus variant are located in India, Italy and the US

German officials admit to deploying intercept software

Several German state governments have admitted using the Quellen-TKÜ software to intercept encrypted voice communications

Google highlights trouble in detecting Web-based malware

No one system is effective in detecting increasingly complex malicious software, the company said