A Chinese anti-virus company has warned against free downloads of Ang Lee’s steamy spy thriller, “Lust, Caution,” saying several hundred sites offering the service were embedded with viruses.
Lust, Caution, the latest film from Ang Lee, the Oscar-winning director, has become a box-office hit in China. But it is also attracting tens of millions of viewers [...]

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Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system will face increasing security threats, according to McAfee Avert Labs predictions for top 10 security threats in 2008.
One reason businesses have not been keen to upgrade to Vista is the hardware that is needed to handle the resource-hungry operating system, David Marcus, security research manager for McAfee Avert Labs, told [...]

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A former security researcher admitted to hijacking a quarter of a million PCs, using spyware to steal bank and PayPal account information, and making money by installing adware on the massive botnet.
Security consultant John Schiefer, 26, has agreed to plead guilty to four counts of fraud and wiretap charges. U.S. federal prosecutors claim he operated [...]

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Security firm Webroot Software has identified five million websites hosting malicious spyware during October.
One of the most widespread infections in the UK was Comet Cursor, a piece of adware capable of tracking a user’s online habits and transmitting the information to a third party.
Peter Watkins, the CEO of Webroot Software says “Spyware has become increasingly [...]

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An undisclosed number of Seagate’s Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 units have shipped with a virus that steals passwords to online games—including World of Warcraft—the company is warning customers.
Seagate got the head’s up from Kaspersky Labs, which identified the virus as Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah. The virus deletes similar viruses and can disable virus detection software as well.
According [...]

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A Los Angeles computer security consultant agreed Friday to plead guilty to using computer spyware that he planted in other people’s computers to steal identities, U.S. federal prosecutors said.
John Schiefer, 26, was accused of using “botnets” — armies of infected computers — to steal the identities of victims across the country by extracting information from [...]

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Salesforce.com is warning customers that they may be the targets of malicious software or phishing scams, after one of its employees was tricked into divulging a corporate password.
In a note to customers, Salesforce said that online criminals have been sending customers fake invoices and, starting just a few days ago, viruses and key logging software. [...]

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Kaspersky Lab, a leading provider of Internet threat management solutions that protect against viruses, spyware, hackers and spam, today announced it was named Tech Data Corporation’s (NASDAQ: TECD) “Fast Start Business Partner” award winner for 2007 at the recent annual Tech Data Business Partner Summit.
The award comes in the inaugural year of a key distribution [...]

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Hackers have taken advantage of mounting interest in next year’s US presidential elections to create fake websites that serve up exploits.
Anti-spyware firm Webroot said that it has tracked hundreds of fake sites that lure visitors into downloading malicious files. Surfers may encounter these fraudulent websites after unknowingly selecting a dodgy URL from a list returned [...]

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Just a quick note for all you EVIL surfers out there, hackers love to take advantage around holiday/festival times and use the theme of the event to try get you to download dodgy stuff.
So this Halloween if you do see a download link for some ‘wicked witch’ or ‘horrible ogre’, remember they probably are dangerous.

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