NCSA warns over danger posed by cyber criminals weapon of choice

The US-based National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) today published research revealing that 71 per cent of consumers are dangerously ignorant when it comes to protecting themselves against botnets.

Describing the results as alarming, NCSA noted that botnets are rapidly becoming the cyber criminals' weapon of choice and the internet's fastest growing threat.

"Last June, the FBI identified more than one million computers infected with malware which could have been hijacked and used as part of an army of bots to attack other computers, spread malware, or attack our nation's infrastructure," said Ron Teixeira, executive director of the NCSA.

Posted by Sean Cannon in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 10:53

Attacks 'specifically targeted' in wake of Olympic torch demonstrations against Chinese policies


Two sites favouring Tibet independence have been infected with malware in what appears to be a targeted attack, according the security-specialist ScanSafe.

The code embedded in the two sites could infect visitors with Trojan downloader code that can pull in other malware under remote control.

Posted by Sean Cannon in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 08:49