New ‘SpyEye Trojan’ Banking Virus Steals Your Money, Hides Fraudulent Transactions

While checking your bank account from your computer has become a generally accepted means of banking a security firm in Israel is now warning customers that such actions could drain their bank accounts. According to the firm a ... continue

HIV Vaccine Protects Monkeys from the Virus

A new weapon has been created in the fight against HIV.  Researchers have developed a vaccine that protects rhesus monkey from an extremely virulent form of  simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is distantly related to the virus ... continue

Duqu creators apparently have a thing for Dexter

Duqu is one of the most intricate, mysterious viruses to be released in several years, matched only in complexity by its predecessor, Stuxnet, but there's apparently a lighter side to the virus hidden away in the code. When ... continue

Stuxnet creators suspected to be behind new Duqu virus

Symantec announced that a new, malicious virus, called Duqu, has been discovered, and it may have ties to the Stuxnet virus. Symantec made the discovery alongside an unnamed research lab. The company states that it appears whoever wrote ... continue

Mac trojan now equipped with OS X anti-virus nuking ability

While Mac users like to brag on and on about how they don't get viruses and other types of malware on their shiny objects of perfection recent events are proving otherwise, and to the degree that Apple ... continue

Cold virus in kids could trigger type 1 diabetes

This is a little scary- a spike in type 1 diabetes in very young children could be in part due to a strain of the common cold. An article posted in BMJ Online First says kids with type ... continue

Rappin’ Doc warns about H1N1 virus

While it might not seem to be a subject to write and perform a rap song about a flu virus that hasn’t stopped Jerome Clark, medical director of the Long Island Railroad,from applying his ... continue

Twitter infected by StalkDaily Worm

Yesterday Twitter was hit by a worm. This is the first serious worm attack on Twitter. At first the reports were very mixed, some said you got infected by visiting StalkDaily, others if you visited a Twitter ... continue

Thanks for the virus Fisher-Price

According to a report surfacing on CBS news station WBZ children’s toy maker Fisher-Price decided to send along some extra goodies with one of their cameras for children. The FP Kid-Tough digital camera is infecting the computers ... continue

Firefox Threat: “Rare” Malware Targeting Browsers

Firefox users, be warned: A "novel" and "rare" type of malware floating around the Web may try to steal your banking passwords directly through your browser. The program, called Trojan.PWS,ChromeInject.A, looks like a regular Firefox plug-in once it ... continue

Asus Messes Up – Again

Last month Asus hit the tech headlines when it was found out that the recovery DVD that they were shipping out contained a cracking tool, some confidential Microsoft documents and Asus application source code. Well according to ... continue

July Sets E-Mail Virus Record

July has set a 2008 record for virus-laden e-mail, according to tracking information released by Google's Apps Security & Compliance Team this afternoon. The data shows more malicious messages sent in July than in any other month so ... continue

Viruses Hit Mozilla, MP3s

Right now, virus-related problems are spreading like... well, viruses. First up, Mozilla is admitting it made a major mistake. The Firefox developers sent out a warning today that one of the browser's language plug-ins is infected with ... continue