Posts tagged ‘Security’
Paypal announced that it will not block Safari, after earlier this months they announced new security measures, including blocking access using insecure browsers. Many thought that Safari will be among the blocked browsers, but Paypal denied that, and said it will block just old browser/OS combinations, for example IE4 running on Win98.
Source: pcpro.co.uk
In the latest edition of its bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report , Symantec revealed that the number of computer viruses is now bigger than one million. In the 2nd half of 2007, there were found 499,811 malicious threats, which is 136% increase compared to the first 6 months of 2007.
The end of 2007 found Symantec detecting 1,122,311 threats. Symantec says that this big increase of the new viruses is caused by the fact that high-tech crime groups now employ very good programmers to help them create dangerous viruses. Many of the threats are Trojans, which once installed on a computer, install other malicious programs, send confidential data to the Trojan creator, by logging user names, passwords and so on.
Source: BBC News.
PC Tools announced an update on the source of malware. Russia goes to first place, with 27.9%, making China to fall on the second place, with 26.5%, and US to fall on the 3rd place, with 10%. Brazil follows, with 6.7%, Ukraine with 5.4%, and UK with 5.3%.
The new “king of malware”, Russia, is also #1 for sending unsolicited emails (spam).
Source: news.com
