Mozilla has warned that the Vietnamese language pack of Firefox 2 was compromised as a result of a viral infection

A security attack that damages embedded systems beyond repair was demonstrated for the first time in London on Wednesday.

It beggars belief that anyone would think that they'd first hear of World War III through a spam email. But hackers are relying on such credulous fools in an attempt to spread a new Trojan.

Some CA products containing antivirus components have "inherent code problems," according to vulnerability-testing company Secunia, which published its annual report on security vulnerabilities on Monday.

An antivirus vendor is warning people to be on the lookout for a worm disguised as nude glamour pinups, though the virus's threat level is very low.

Hewlett-Packard has released a batch of USB keys for numerous Proliant server models which contain malware that could allow an attacker to take over an infected system.

Some of this is due to how the online world has changed this decade, and how a lot of malware has taken advantage of security flaws that can only be discovered through infosecurity research.

I was recently out with friends from the antivirus industry. They work as analysts for a major firm, and we were talking about our respective views on malicious code. I left the conversation disappointed and frustrated at the increasingly blind host-based antivirus world.

Kaspersky Lab succeeded in thwarting previous variants of Gpcode, (see Blackmailer: the story of Gpcode on viruslist.com) when Kaspersky virus analysts were able to crack the private key after in-depth cryptographic analysis.

The objective of the initiative is to factor (‘crack') the RSA-1024 key used in Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak - the latest version of the dangerous Gpcode blackmailer virus.