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Wired is reporting that a virus has infected the flight systems controlling the Predator and Reaper drone aircraft in the Middle East. The systems have been infected for about two weeks and it appears to be a keylogger-type of virus. Further, the virus has resisted attempts to disinfect the system but the military think it's benign. You can read the
With the rise of smartphones and tablets, it's not exactly unsurprisingly that they've increasingly become a target for cyber criminals and other unscrupulous individuals. In the first half of this year, malware for portable devices increased by 273% compared with 2010. Cross-platform Trojans are the main source of the growth and most of these viruses are designed to enable spamming
Sophos has published its quarterly report into spam and the USA remains top of the league for spam-relaying, being responsible for nearly 19% of all spam messages. India follows with a little under 7% and then Brazil, Russia and the UK finishing the top 5 on 4.5%. The vast majority of spam does not come directly from spammers' servers, but
German security firm G Data put out an interesting press release last month regarding the expected successor to the Zeus trojan, which infected millions of PCs and captured bank account details. The new trojan, Ares, has a similar modular design, allowing it to be easily configured for a range of target activities. Malware is big business and a software development kit for Ares
There's no doubt that Apple Macs and Linux PCs are far less likely to suffer from virus infections or malware when compared to their Windows cousins, but there's also no doubt that newer technologies such as cross-platform scripting can lead to vulnerabilities across the board. Besides no-one wants to be blamed for passing on a virus infection as payload in
Something has happened to my laptop that has never happened before. It has been infected with a virus. I "caught" it through an unsecured wireless connection at my favorite coffee shop last night. The first symptom was an Internet Explorer window kept opening and going to various sites wanting to sell me things. I don't use IE, and actually had
"Security center has detected malware on your computer." Have you ever seen that message pop up on your computer? Have you ever seen it happen over Skype? Well, I've received that message three times in the last month as a Skype message. It tells me that my Windows software is infected and I need to install a patch. It even