Malware

Half a million websites have been infected with a new round of malware attack and poorly implemented website configurations have been blamed.

A vendor of anti-spyware and anti-virus software has released a report saying that Windows Vista, the latest version of Microsoft's latest operating system, is more susceptible to malware than the company's Windows 2000.

An add-on for the popular Firefox browser hid potentially malicious code, possibly contaminating the machines of anyone who downloaded it.

Security researchers at the Shadowserver Foundation have discovered another round of SQL injection attacks, this one affecting more than 4,000 web pages that are based on Microsoft's ASP and .NET technologies.

Researchers at McAfee said they have detected the largest outbreak of malware in three years, an infection impacting hundreds of thousands of users whose machines contain poisoned media files.

Users of Yahoo's search engine can now traverse the internet with some body armor thanks to a partnership with McAfee that was announced Tuesday.

Security researchers recently found a server being used to harvest private information consisting of stolen data from 40 international businesses, as well as health-related information on patients worldwide.

The Storm Worm botnet is just a fraction of its original size, but malware remains on the rise, according to one email security firm.