The Zomby Army Avoid being Enlisted Into the Zombie Army When NetSafe and IBM set up an experiment last month to highlight the escalating issue of internet security it took 20 seconds to prove their point. That was the time between connecting a fresh PC in Auckland to the Internet and receiving the first probe […]

Conficker Worm is Dabbling with Mischief The Conficker worm’s creators are evidently toying with ways to put the pervasive computer virus to work firing off spam or spreading rogue anti-virus applications called “scareware”. An April update sent to a tiny percentage of infected computers had the machines retrieve components of notorious Storm and Waledac worms

Experts Concerned about Swine Flu Computer Virus What is the Swine Flu Computer Virus? Japan has reported no human cases of deadly swine flu so far – but a computer virus of the same name has been spreading on the Internet in recent days, authorities warned on Thursday. Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID)

Conficker Worm Digs in Around the World An estimated one to two million computers worldwide are infected with Conficker Computer security top guns around the world watched warily as the dreaded Conficker worm squirmed deeper into infected machines with the arrival of an April 1st trigger date. The malicious software evolved, as expected, from East

Conficker Worm is Active As many as 12 million computers have been infected by Conficker The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm’s authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared. As many as 12 million computers