Entries from July 2005 ↓

Worm spells double trouble for PCs

A double-edged threat that attempts to hijack PCs has surfaced in at least three variants, security companies warned on Friday.The new pest, Lebreat, is a combined network worm and mass-mailing worm, F-Secure said. Once run on a PC, it installs a backd…

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Firefox marketing site hacked (By Joris Evers, CNET News.com)

Attackers broke into the Web site by exploiting an unpatched security vulnerability in the software that runs SpreadFirefox.com, the Mozilla Foundation said in an e-mail alert to registered users of the site late Thursday. Mozilla coordinates Firefox d…

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