The WildList was established in July 1993 by anti-virus researcher Joe Wells, was subsequently published monthly by the WildList Organization and is now published by ICSA Labs (part of TrueSecure Corporation). It aims to keep track of which viruses [...]
The World Wide Web (or WWW for short) was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, a British software consultant who was looking for a way to track associations between pieces of information using a computer (much like a thesaurus does manually). His initial p [...]
A keylogger can be used by a third-party to obtain confidential data (login details, passwords, credit card numbers, PINs, etc.) by intercepting key presses. Backdoor Trojans typically come with a built-in keylogger; and the confidential data is rel [...]
In April 2008, malicious code in mail traffic underwent significant changes in comparison to the previous month [...]
At last, there\'s been a change in the three malicious programs leading our Online Top Twenty. After two months in first place, the adware program Virtumonde has slipped to second, while the other two programs which kept it company at the top in Febru [...]
