News

MySpace wins record payout in case against spammers

'Spam Kings' Wallace and Rines fined maximum amount under federal law. (0 comments)

14 May 2008

Yahoo! searchers to get McAfee site advice

SiteAdvisor data to help check security of search results. (0 comments)

09 May 2008

Security experts gather in Europe

Anti-malware insights pooled at AMTSO, CARO and EICAR meetings. (0 comments)

07 May 2008

Users divided about customer liability for online fraud losses

Many users worried about lack of knowledge. (0 comments)

06 May 2008

May issue of VB published

The May issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.

01 May 2008

Cracked CAPTCHAs used to create malicious blogs

Blogs on Google's blogging system redirect to spam sites. (0 comments)

25 April 2008

Mass attack infects over half a million web pages

United Nations and UK Government sites among those infected by SQL injection. (0 comments)

24 April 2008

More than 50% of users regularly double-check for false positive spam filtering

Only 12% of users trust their spam filter sufficiently not to bother sifting through spam folder. (2 comments)

16 April 2008

Phishing on rise, but anti-phishers fighting back

As UK banking body reports major increase in phishes, PayPal unveils blocking strategy. (0 comments)

16 April 2008

China-Tibet row spills over into malware attacks

Both sides of debate targeted to spread malicious code. (0 comments)

16 April 2008


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In this month's magazine:
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Virus Bulletin 05 2008
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