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The notorious "storm worm" trojan is at it again, this time spreading through a bogus link for a YouTube video, security researchers have warned. Security researchers at Websense have uncovered what they called a "link hack" that bypasses the attempts of social networking website MySpace.com to control and filter the links on its pages. Campaign videos used to spread Trojans. BitDefender has boosted the functionality of its free Online Scanner adding antispyware technologies, the security vendor announced today. Russia has emerged as a "spam superpower", IT security experts warned today.. Trend Micro's consumer offering of Internet Security 2008 scored top marks in a comparison testing of 28 other anti-virus products conducted by an independent testing organisation.
Most men believe that they know more about online security than women, but new research suggests that both sexes are equally vulnerable to malware and other threats.. The assassination of former Pakistan president Benazir Bhutto has become the latest hook to lure users to malicious websites.. Google has halted the spread of a worm on its social networking website, Orkut, but not before the self-replicating script reportedly spread to more than 400,000 member profiles. Mobile phone viruses are on the rise spreading data seeking spyware, money making Trojans and shutting down phones. A Trojan that disguises its malicious content by playing a humorous animation is spreading across the internet, according to security experts. A man suspected of creating and spreading a mobile phone virus has been arrested by police in Spain, according to reports. Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back. Security experts have warned of a sharp hike in malicious activity coming out of China.. Hackers are increasingly spreading malware via the web rather than email, according to new research. Researchers at anti-virus vendor F-Secure have noted a 100-percent increase over last year in the amount of malware detected during 2007. The newest generation of employees connects with friends on Facebook and shares YouTube videos on lunch breaks or throughout the working day. Oracle on Tuesday delivered 51 fixes in a quarterly patch distribution that included an updated scoring system for organisations to measure the risk and impact of vulnerabilities. Cyber criminals are designing and spreading a new Trojan called LdPinch.ZO in an attempt to steal sensitive corporate data, experts have warned. Virus writers are actively exploiting a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Word that was patched on Tuesday, researchers said today.