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Are You Ready For… Black Monday? Security experts from PC Tools have pinpointed November 24 as potentially the peak of malicious activity for 2008. They reached their conclusion on the specific date after analyzing well over 500,000 machines from around the world.
North Korea Wants To Talk Nuclear Weapons Today, North Korea said they would return to a six-party nuclear talk and would consider treating the US as a "friend".
Iraq WMD Search Comes Up Empty The US has abandoned its search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, ending their search for the arms stockpile that was the key justification for going to war.
Russia Denies Dealing Missiles To Syria The US has warned Russia against selling missiles to Syria, there are reports that Moscow has a sophisticated weapon that could hit any target in Israel.
Ex-Spies Sue The CIA For Promised Salary Two Cold War era spies are suing the CIA after they were promised a salary for the rest of their lives.
Car Bomb Explodes At Iraqi Police Station Killing Seven Today in Tikrit, the former home town of Saddam Hussein, a car bomb exploded at the police headquarters killing seven policemen.
Yushchenko Declared President By Election Commission The past November Viktor Yushchenko was declared the winner of a nationwide presidential election, but voters took to the streets insisting that the voting was rigged.
Ex-Prosecutor Chosen By Bush For Homeland Post The man who helped craft the early war on terror, federal appeals court Judge Michael Chertoff, has been chosen to be the new Homeland Security chief.
Bush To Lend Helping Hand To Palestinian President Abbas President Bush is trying to reach a helping hand out to the recently elected Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to help combat post-election troubles that might arise.
Two US Soldiers Killed In Baghdad Blast Another sad day for Americans, it seems that a bomb blast ripped through an Abrams tank in southwestern Baghdad leaving two soldiers dead and four wounded.
Peace Agreement Signed By Sudanese Today, large rallies are expected to take place in Khartoum and other parts of Sudan celebrating a peace agreement to end Africa's longest-running war.
US Sailor Dies After Submarine Accident Near Guam Twenty-four soldiers were injured when a US nuclear submarine ran aground underwater about 350 miles south of Guam.
New Internet Explorer Vulnerability Gets “Extremely Critical” Rating Three new security vulnerabilities have been found in Internet Explorer 6, they could allow hackers to execute spyware and dialers.
Britain Sending 400 More Troops To Iraq Today, the British government announced that they would be sending about 400 extra troops to Iraq before the country holds their elections on January 30th.
Ukraine Pulling Troops From Iraq Today, outgoing President Leonid Kuchma ordered officials to draw up plans to pull out Ukraine's troops during the first half of 2005.
Four Israeli Civilians Wounded By Palestinian Militants Today, a group of Israeli civilians were attacked outside the West Bank city of Nablus, wounding four people, leaving one individual in critical condition.
Iraqi Leader Warns of "Spectacular" Attacks Some fears were raised by a top US military official today that Iraqi insurgents may try to carry out "spectacular" attacks for the forth coming Iraqi election.
Army Reserve Becoming A ‘Broken Force’ In Iraq The Pentagon is having trouble relying on volunteers from the Army Reserve for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan possibly creating a ‘Broken Force'.
Prison Escapee Eludes Police In Vacant Electronics Store Last June Jeffrey Allen Manchester escaped from prison, only to go and live in a vacant Circuit City store, eat stolen baby food.
Chirac Urges French Journalists To Avoid Iraq The President of France, Jacques Chirac is urging that reporters do not go to Iraq; this comes after the disappearance of a French reporter.
Iran Allows Look At Possible Nuclear Military Site Iran has finally agreed to allow UN nuclear inspectors take a look around a military site that the US thought to be a secret nuclear weapons site.
Microsoft Goes After Spyware With New Tool Today Microsoft is releasing a beta version of its Windows AntiSpyware application that will help clean up PCs collecting viruses and spyware.
National Emergency Plan Expected Today The Department of Homeland Security is expected to release a national response plan to help coordinate the government's response to larger scale terrorist attacks.
Nigerian Scammers Hope To Cash In On Tsunami Tragedy A new fraudulent email has begun circling the Internet. It claims to be from an Asian charity helping the victims of the recent devastating Tsunami that hit South-East Asia.
Panda Software's Top 10 Viruses of 2004 Panda Software has released it's list of the top ten most frequently detected viruses by it's Panda ActiveScan in 2004. The data provided by Panda Software's free, online scanner throughout 2004 has demonstrated that Downloader.GK was responsible for some 14 percent of all attacks.
Skulls Cell Phone Virus Being Resurrected By Skulls.D A new variant of the Skulls virus, first discovered back in mid-November, has been discovered and is ready to make the rounds again.
A Look Back On 2004 Security Issues With the New Year only days away, let us look back on some of the security stories that made the news in 2004, MyDoom, Phishing scams, Netsky… the list just keeps going.
Virus Authors Give Out Early Holiday Gifts Another seasonal mass-mailing worm that poses as a holiday e-card is being distributed by virus writers. The new holiday worm is being called Atak.H.
Lycos Europe Launches “Make Love Not Spam” Internet portal Lycos has designed a new type of screensaver, one which constantly requests data from sites that sell items featured in spam emails.
Microsoft To Fix The Download Warning Flaw Microsoft has stated they will take "appropriate action" by fixing a problem in Internet Explorer and Windows XP SP2 that currently allows malicious websites to bypass the browsers warnings when downloading potentially infected files.
New Skulls Program Kills Cell Phone Applications Virus authors have found new prey. They are going after Symbian based cell phones with a new trojan horse that kills applications and replaces their icons with a skull image.
Skulls Program Kills Cell Phones Virus authors have found new prey. They are going after Symbian based cell phones with a new trojan horse that kills applications and replaces their icons with a skull image.
Two More Internet Explorer Holes Discovered Security experts have began warning users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer of a couple of new security vulnerabilities that affect fully patched Windows XP Service Pack 2 systems.
A Safer Way To Browse The Internet Just shy of two years development, well over 8 million preview-downloads, and numerous name changes Firefox 1.0 has been officially released.
Google Corks Gmail Hole Google has put a stop to a security flaw that threatened to allow cyber attackers full control over members email accounts. Gmail was having problems in the way it authenticated users. The attacker could steal a cookie file that identifies the user by making a harmless link to Google's own website.
Google Used In Phishing Scheme A new phishing scam is redirecting users three times through Google to fake registration website so it can beat antispam technology. The email says it's from Yahoo administrators and tries to get people to sign up for new email accounts. The hackers are using a clever combination of Yahoo and their own sites to claim the accounts for themselves.
MyDoom Targets AntiVirus Firms Fake Jacko Movie Trying To Recruit Zombie Computers. In a hoax which tries to get users to download a Trojan horse, hackers are exploiting the name of Michael Jackson. Computer users are pointed to a phony video trying to coax them to download the unsuspected virus.
Global Cooperation Equals Better Email At a conference called to debate anti-spam measures, US & UK governments discussed working more closely finally stop spammers. The largest percentage of spam originates overseas, so cross-border co-operation is essential to combat spam delegates were told.
Is Lightning Scarier Than Hackers? According to a poll performed by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) Americans fear lightning more than being hijacked by hackers.
Putting A Stop To Phishing Making an effort to fight against the rise of phishing attacks on consumers, McAfee has released an update to their spam prevention software and personal firewall services.
Hackers Googling To Access Photocopiers The latest networked item being watched by hackers are photocopiers. Hackers have learned how to use search engines, most notably being Google, to watch what they are photocopying.
Hole In The Google Toolbar? A new security flaw has been discovered in the Google toolbar. This flaw could ultimately allow the execution of malicious scripts.
Writing Viruses, Good For Your Career? The 18-year-old author of the Sasser virus, and possibly the Netsky virus, has been offered a job by the German firewall company Securepoint. Does this seem like a reward to anyone else?
JPEG's No Longer Safe For Viewing? Yesterday, Microsoft released a patch for a flaw in the way their operating systems and other software process the widely used JPEG image format. The flaw potentially allows hackers to create an image file capable of executing malicious code on an unsuspecting user's computer.
Virus Authors Seek Anti-Virus Work The latest MyDoom worm variant comes with a secret message from the authors; they are asking antivirus vendors for a job. No, I can't think of a better way to search for jobs in the antivirus industry…
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