Malware

It will be difficult to avoid risky websites, as the most dangerous domain extension is the most popular one -- .com, according to a McAfee study released Tuesday.

A hacker group responsible for defacement attacks against Twitter and Baidu now appears to be amassing a mighty botnet, according to researchers at a security firm.

A trojan masquerading as the anti-virus product Microsoft Security Essentials attempts to trick users into installing a rogue security program, according to researchers at anti-virus firm F-Secure.

In a direct 10-year comparison, the Delaware banking industry's overuse of the FinCEN SAR category of 'Other' mirrors the growth pattern of the malware industry year after year. Are these related?

Security expert Adam Meyers will expose attendees to security tools and technologies that they may not have otherwise known about.

The number of attacks on vulnerable Java code spiked during the third quarter of the year and have reached "unprecedented" levels, a Microsoft malware expert said on Monday.

Google has created an 18-part checklist to help users better secure their computer, browser, Google account and Gmail settings. Among the tips Google suggests are that users choose unique passwords for their various online accounts, that they "periodically" change their passwords and that they never respond to messages or phone calls requesting their usernames or passwords. — DK

The reach of the Zeus trojan is even more widespread than Microsoft expected when it added detection and removal last week for the pernicious malware.