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Virus, Trojan Creator - Turkojan
By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - Malware creators and third party trojan programs are not a new thing. Ever since the days of Sub7 and its ilk, novice hackers have already used freeware tools and programs that were created by other more exper...
ID Theft - How to Avoid Identity Theft
By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - It’s fairly easy to protect yourself against identity theft when you’re online, since all you have to do is keep your softwares patched and up to date, install a good antivirus and anti spyware pro...
Zango Lays Off A Third Of Current Workforce
By Spyware News - According to a recent press release by Zango, the famous adware company has recently terminated the employment of 68 out of the 200 plus people that comprise its total workforce. The lay offs were done as a means to streamline and n...
High School Hackers Use Trojan Program To Change Their Grades
By Spyware News www.spywarenews.org - A couple of teens from Tesoro High School in Orange County, California, are being charged with multiple felony charges after being caught of hacking into their school’s computer network in order to infect i...
FTC Wants Spyware Distributors Pays
The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that the power to invoke civil penalties on spyware distributors would aid in deterrence. Eileen Harrington, deputy director of the FTC’s Bur...
TypePad Open Source AntiSpam for Blog
Six Apart is launching a new free open source product into beta called TypePad AntiSpam. While the product is new, the technology behind it has been used by Six Apart since May 2007 on millions of hosted TypePad blogs. What’s TypePad AntiSpam? ...
Wi-Fi Hotspots Vulnerable to Computer Hackers
The FBI recently issued an alert warning that wireless Internet networks, often called Wi-Fi hotspots, are more vulnerable to hackers than most users probably realize. Often the security of the free public networks is low and this setting make it ver...
PayPal Plans to Ban Unsafe Web Browsers
PayPal announced plans to ban older and unsafe Web browsers in an effort to provide anti-phishing protection with the use of EV SSL certificates. PayPal, the world’s largest online payment service, announced on Thursday that it is working on a ...
MySpace Sexual Assault Lawsuit Dismissed
A federal appeals court has ruled that MySpace.com is immune from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site. The Texas girl’s family had sued MySpace and its parent company, ...
MySpace Wins $230 Million from Spam King Sanford Wallace
Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of ...
Worms Spread Via MSN Messenger - W32/MSNworm.EI.worm
W32/MSNworm.EI.worm, which spreads via the MSN Messenger and displays a funny picture of a little pig sending you a kiss while it is infecting your computer. MSNworm.EI is a worm whose main objective is to spread and affect as many computers as poss...
ZoneAlarm ForceField - Clones Your Web browser to Help Prevent Damage
Sometimes even the most protective phalanx of antivirus, antispyware and antiphishing programs is not enough to shield a computer from online dangers. Check Point Software’s ZoneAlarm ForceField provides an extra defensive layer by cloning your...
Microsoft Overestimated Windows Vista Security
Since Vista’s release last year, Microsoft has hailed the operating system’s security features. Some have even claimed the operating systems would make anti-virus software obsolete. PC Tools took that opportunity to examine Microsoft’s...
DefCon Contest: Defeat Anti-Virus Programs
A new contest running at the DefCon hacker conference this year (held in Las Vegas in August) is already stirring up controversy. It will challenge hackers to design malware that can’t be detected by anti-virus programs such as ones offered by ...
