According to Sophos’s annual Internet Security Threat Report, malware attacks, phishing and spam reports, are all on the rise across social networks. Sophos analysts define the terms in the following ways: A malware attack is a piece of malicious …
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Unsurprisingly, this massive and committed user base is heavily targeted by scammers and cybercriminals, with the number and diversity of attacks growing steadily throughout 2010 – malware, phishing and spam on social networks have all continued to rise …
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The Kama Sutra may help you score points in the bedroom, but a new PowerPoint file on the ancient guide to sex will only raise your chances of scoring something else: a rendezvous with computer hackers. According to the security research firm Sophos , an …
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The Jerusalem Post reports that up to 1,000 centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear facility were disabled by the computer worm known as Stuxnet … he discovered that the virus caused the engines in Iran’s IR-1 centrifuges to increase and decrease their speed …
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