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How Three Guys Dismantled One of the World's Most Powerful Botnets
If you're envisioning lines of code flying across bays of screens, amphetamine-fueled digital manhunts and dramatic, albeit rendered, explosions, I'm sorry. When major botnets fall nowadays, it's the product of hard work, patience, and some well-placed phone calls. More »The Antivirus Kitten
Just imagine about how much faster your computer would run, and how much less blood you'd have to clean off of your doormat! Cats are terrible beasts. [YouTube—Thanks, Tim!]Nature's Most Wicked-Looking Robot, the Bacteriophage
I can't lie; I've been waiting for an excuse to post a picture of a bacteriophage*, the microscopic spider virus that lands on bacteria to inject its own DNA, for a long time. This Cyborg Life gives me an excuse. More »Out-Of-The-Box Windows 7 Install Is Vulnerable To 8 out of 10 Viruses Tested
SophosLabs didn't believe claims that Windows 7 and its User Account Controls were any more secure than previous versions of the OS, so they tested (albeit somewhat oddly) a clean install. Result? A reminder that you should always use protection. More »Laptop Lojack Vulnerability Exposed, Affecting 60 Percent of New Notebooks
What the Hell Did Jackie Chan Just Make Me Watch?
Dear god. Jackie Chan. On a Segway. Punching computer viruses. While wearing a helmet that says Kaspersky. I can only process this logically as him trying to gin up business for his Segway dealership. More »Microsoft Warns Users of Serious Security Hole in Software
Conficker Worm Hits U.S. Hospitals, Infecting Computers and Equipment
Cnet says that hundreds of critical hospital devices across the U.S. have been infected by the Conficker worm. The number of hospitals affected wasn't disclosed, but the problem isn't thought to be widespread. More »Conficker'd Machines Are All Doing... Something
Whether it's an actual functional update or a ploy to further inflate the worm's horrifying reputation, an encrypted, mysterious thing is downloading to machines infected with Conficker C, right now. UPDATED More »Malware Infection Rates By Region, And More Fun Facts!
According to Microsoft, the global average for malware infection is 8.6 out of every 1000 systems—a number that's lower than I'd have estimated. And apparently Ethiopia and Myanmar run a pretty tight ship! More »Reminder: How to Fix Conficker
Afraid you've got the evil Conficker worm that's already begun snaking its way around the world? Thanks to herculean efforts by researchers, the detection and fix is pretty easy. More »11th-Hour Fix May Protect Huge Corporate Networks From Conficker Worm's Nastiness
Zero-hour approaches for the awakening of the Conficker megaworm. As we explained, Conficker can evade detection like none before it. But security experts have released a scanner that may save your IT professional's sanity tomorrow. More »Breaking: Cranky Windows Guy's Day Ruined by "Really Nasty" Trojan on His PC
Gizmodo's cranky Windows guy, Adam Frucci, just had the spring stolen from his dance step by a nasty trojan he discovered on his PC. I sure hope it's not it's not Conficker. More »Giz Explains: How a Brainy Worm Might Jack the World's PCs on April 1
It's lurking in millions of PCs around the world. It's incredibly sophisticated and resilient, with built-in p2p and digital code-signing technology. It revels in killing security software. On April 1, the Conficker worm will activate. More »Computer Crashes Due to an Internal Worm, Literally
When an IT technician looked inside a dying computer with malfunctioning processor fan, he discovered what had caused the machine to crash: A worm—not a bug or a virus—an actual 5-inch earthworm. More »Hackers Using Fake Parking Tickets to Infect Computers
In North Dakota, oddly enough, hackers have hit on a new way to infect innocent computers: fake parking tickets that direct car owners to a site where they are instructed to download malicious software. More »OS X iWork Trojan Revamped, Repackaged, Rereleased in Photoshop
The nasty OS X trojan from last week has resurfaced, and this time hits software pirates where it hurts the most: in Photoshop. More »The Penicillin Fix For Your iWork '09 Trojan VD
Torrented Copies of iWork '09 Come Laced With a Nasty OS X Trojan
This may be a first for the Mac software world, and it's not cool at all: ill-gotten copies of iWork '09 circulating on Torrent sites contain OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, which is something you don't want. More »Giz Explains: Why OS X Shrugs Off Viruses Better Than Windows
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