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Yahoo has added additional security features to keep its users from being tricked by fraudsters. Experts convened at BlackHat on Wednesday reported that the spyware threat continues to increase and it will remain unbeatable while jurisdictional issues between government enforcement bodies persist. The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) pulled the covers off adware’s "dirty little secret" this week with the release of its latest report. Knocking out spyware is easier said than done, especially when what you say isn’t what you mean. Marcia Savage reports Adware maker Zango doesn't comply with the terms of a November settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), security researchers claim.
Yahoo and Symantec are expanding on a previous partnership to offer new security services to Yahoo customers. We were pleased to see that this unit’s web GUI was one of the few being tested that defaults to a secure HTTPS connection. There is also a fully featured console available through serial connection, although it has a blank default password. That can be set, but a lot of users might forget, leaving their systems vulnerable. A hacker has been jailed for almost five years for creating a zombie network of hundreds of thousands of computers. “Tell me what you want, and I’ll find a solution. I have many datacentres and options...” Fans of the Angolan national football team are more likely to be targeted by spam and spyware than any other fan, according to new research. Microsoft released a dozen new patches on Tuesday - eight of which were deemed critical by the software giant - including a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer and a long awaited fix for Microsoft Word. Researchers at FaceTime Security Labs have discovered a worm that installs its own web browser onto affected PCs after it’s downloaded through an instant messenger (IM) program. Although convicted "botmaster" Jeanson James Ancheta received the longest prison sentence ever imposed on a malware distributor, most people think the judge should have handed out a harsher penalty, according to a new Sophos poll. A U.S. man has pleaded guilty of creating a zombie network of 50,000 computers to launch a devastating attack against a Seattle hospital. Mac OS X and Mozilla Firefox – widely considered safer than mainstream counterpart Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) – are rapidly becoming new sources for vulnerabilities, according to the latest SANS Institute Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities report. New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is going after internet fraudsters again, this time suing a Manhattan spyware company for allegedly installing millions of pop-up advertisements on customers’ PCs. The results are in: The top consumer complaint in New York is...the internet. Predictions, like fog, are hard to get your arms around, but here is one that will prove more than just a mere exercise in prophesizing: The next wave of security threats will be targeted attacks aimed at specific organizations or individuals within enterprises. The U.S. government is pushing through a bill to tackle spyware, but will it really help? David Bicknell explains just what the threat is, and what enterprises can do to protect themselves Online advertising company, Zango, is to pay USD $3 million for "unfairly and deceptively" downloading adware onto people's computers.