Ten years ago this coming week an important and unpleasant event occurred: The ILOVEYOU virus. It was, at the time, the biggest malware event ever, and inspired a generation of script kiddies and greedy, sociopathic programmers. I asked Dave Perry of Trend Micro, an old pro in the field, about the lessons of the Love [...]
A computer worm that China warned Internet users against is an updated version of the Panda Burning Incense virus, which infected millions of PCs in the country three years ago, according to McAfee.
The original Panda worm, also known as Fujacks, caused widespread damage at a time when public knowledge about online security was low, and [...]
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