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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale confirms that a number of e-mail scams are hitting citizens in the county.

Called "cache poisoning," the DNS attacks differ from more common phishing or pharming attacks because they do not rely on spyware installation or users clicking on bogus links.

But it isn't. And the email actually leads to the installation of a trojan horse file.

Commission authorization of the staff to file amended complaints: The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amended complaint in the matter currently pending against World Traders Association, et al.

In this weeka TMs report wea TMll be looking at variants of the Mytob worm, a new variant of malware affecting cell phones and a new kind of online fraud.

AUSTRALIAN companies hoping to invest in clean energy projects in developing nations are being forced to find backdoor channels to get around the ban on countries that have not ratified the Kyoto Protocol.

SMALL businesses are vulnerable to computer fraud and hacking unless they keep their IT systems up to date according to internet security form Symantec.

Two security guards just escorted a friend of mine out of the workplace. They said he had password-cracking software running on his machine.

One of the projects we're working on here in Security Pipeline's headquarters is to build a spyware resource page, a place you can go to find links that will fill all your spyware information needs.

The responses that follow are from those members of the Mercury's Technology reader panel who gave permission to be cited.

The next big thing in storage? Three dimensional holographic images enable more information to be stored in a much smaller space, preventing information overflow.

Malware keeps worming its way into the wireless world. In the latest finding, security software maker F-Secure has discovered a Trojan Horse designed to crash Nokia Series 60 handsets running on the Symbian OS.

Phishers are disguising e-mails as electronic postcards from family in order to lure consumers to sites that deliver a malicious Trojan horse program to their computers.

Several student residents were surprised to find their Internet connections turned off after an Information Technology network technician shut off their ports for using too much bandwidth.

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Habanero Networks is pleased to announce that it has aquired permission to use the Ports List that has been compiled by Neohapsis and is now incorporated into the new Open Port QuickSearch.

'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users . The sad thing is that most computer users dont give a shit.

"If the person is complacent, doesn't have any safeguards on their system, extremely easy," said Richard Grayson, with the North Country Computer Sales and Service.

Unfortunately, when it comes to spyware/adware, there are two separate issues that often get confused.

Zori.B, this week's top threat, is an old-fashioned file infector, but it could be bad news for you and others on your network.

Enforcing the Do Not Call Program. To date, consumers have registered more than 86 million phone numbers with the FTC's National Do Not Call Registry.

More than 70 percent of virus writers are now writing spyware under contract, one more piece of evidence that hacking has evolved from mischievous hobby to money-making criminal venture, a security firm ...

McAfee is preparing to test a new antivirus scanning engine. The 5000 series engine is the core mal-ware detection and repair component for much of McAfee's security software product line up.

F-Secure claims instant messaging viruses are growing at 50% a month . Where as the Sasser email worm took 14 minutes to compromise 95% of all vulnerable PCs around the world, instant messaging worms could ...

Like iSwipe, but unlike P2P applications like Limewire or Kazaa that connect to only one file sharing network, Poisoned can connect to several simultaneously.

KEYNOTE SYSTEMS YESTERDAY ANNOUNCED THE launch of its "Keynote Health Care Services Web Transaction Performance Index." The index, which includes sites that collectively attract the bulk of related Web traffic, ...

When I learned about TiVo's plan to put ads during the fast-forward I was imagining an ad in the bottom right of the TV screen.

Older worms and viruses continued to dominate March's list of Top 10 baddest apples, said security firms Thursday, in part because users don't update their anti-virus defenses, but also because 2005's entries ...

More than a third of online households plan to filed their 2004 federal taxes over the web, a survey released Wednesday showed.

Phishing, keystroke logging and other types of scams are increasingly worrying users of online banking services in Europe while scaring others away, according to a report issued Tuesday from Forrester Research ...

The Boys and Girls Club of Terre Haute needed banks of computers rid of adware, spyware and viruses.

University of California freshman Hannah Ostrowski strolled through campus enjoying her pink iPod Mini one recent day, but her music player wasn't filled with songs downloaded from Apple Computer's online music ...