Stories about: SecureWorks

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Zeus botnet dealt a blow as ISP Troyak knocked out 11 March, 2010 07:37

Internet service providers linked to the notorious Zeus botnet have been taken down, knocking out a third of the command-and-control servers that run the network of hacked machines.
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Botnet targets major Web sites with junk SSL connection 02 February, 2010 07:46

More than 300 Web sites are being pestered by infected computers that are part of the Pushdo botnet, according to security researchers.
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Enterprises look for help managing security logs 22 January, 2010 08:05

Managed security services have been growing in popularity over the past several years, and the latest task enterprises are looking to offload to an outside provider is security information management.
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Security researcher IDs China link in Google hack 21 January, 2010 06:22

The malicious software used to steal information from companies such as Google contains code that links it to China, a security researcher said Tuesday
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Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet 28 December, 2009 13:52

For two years as a researcher with security company FireEye, Atif Mushtaq worked to keep Mega-D bot malware from infecting clients' networks. In the process, he learned how its controllers operated it.
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New banking trojan horses gain polish 25 November, 2009 06:09

Criminals today can hijack active online banking sessions, and new Trojan horses can fake the account balance to prevent victims from seeing that they're being defrauded.
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With botnets everywhere, DDoS attacks get cheaper 15 October, 2009 11:23

Cyber-crime just doesn't pay like it used to.
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Opera delivers Unite beta, touts in-browser P2P 15 October, 2009 05:33

Opera Software today released the beta of Opera Unite, a platform for authoring peer-to-peer (P2P) and Web server-based applications that it's promised will reinvent the Web.
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Malware flea market pays hackers to hijack PCs 07 October, 2009 05:53

Among a slew of online cybercrime forums, Pay-Per-Install.org stands out as a malware flea market where shadowy pushers of Trojan downloaders and tools for evading detection are bargaining with thousands of would-be "affiliates" willing to compromise victims'computers globally and get paid for it.
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School boards hit with cash-stealing Trojan 29 September, 2009 10:29

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a rash of reported online computer intrusions that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars being stolen from school districts in Illinois.
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Security researchers zero in on Twitter hackers 10 August, 2009 07:25

Security experts are making progress in their efforts to identify the hackers responsible for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that that crippled Twitter for several hours Thursday.