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Virus and worm news from Network World
The latest virus and worm news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com.
Is it a virus? I get a lot of e-mail from people who believe their computer is infected by a virus. In most cases, it's not infected at all - evil software designers are still outnumbered by incompetent ones. Phishers and scammers use bleak economic news to lure victims Lots of Phishing, Spam and Scam news today. Looks like the down economy is proving to be a lucrative lure for scammers, who are using the stock and credit market woes in phishing attacks featuring Bank of America and pump-and-dump scams for penny stocks. Also, 419 scammers are hacking e-mail accounts and sending out a plea for money to "friends" of the hacked account. Different, but still slimy. Just what color is a security hole? Computer attacks in space are no longer the stuff of science fiction: Recently, laptops on the International Space Station turned out to have computer viruses. NASA believes that the malware--a password stealer that targets online games--may have infected the laptops via a USB thumb drive that one of the astronauts carried aboard. While it wasn't much of a threat, it just goes to show that the little buggers are everywhere. 5 password utilities for portable freedom Password managers are a huge help in dealing with our exponentially growing numbers of accounts. But stand-alone apps introduce a new problem: If you aren't sitting at the PC with the software installed, you can't get to your credentials. Luckily, you have alternatives. These five password tools are all accessible either from a portable device (such as a thumb drive) or over the Web. Sophos concludes $314 million Utimaco buy Antivirus vendor Sophos has concluded its acquisition of Utimaco Software, a seller of data encryption software. Enterprises overpay for antivirus software, says analyst Enterprises continue to pay too much for security software -- while the software vendors aren't doing enough research to keep up with fast-changing threats on the Internet, a Gartner analyst said Monday. Microsoft, Washington state to sue 'scareware' pushers Microsoft and Washington state are cracking down on scammers who bombard computer users with fake warning messages in hopes of selling them useless software. 4 steps to take control of your mobile devices Mobile enterprise clients pose new security and management challenges. Here's how you can meet them. UTM devices are making headway Customers using unified threat management devices say the appliances represent a more streamlined way to provide multiple security functions and to track down security data, but don’t necessarily meet all gateway security needs adequately. Apple has its own Patch Tuesday Apple Patch Tuesday came out of the blue this week with a new Mac OS X 10.5.5 update the fixes flaws in numerous systems, including a well-known DNS vulnerability. The company also released an update for Remote Desktop to fix a privilege flaw. Plus, there's a new Trojan on the march trying to infiltrate SQL Server systems.