MALWARE

Xunlei Ltd, a Chinese Internet platform company in which Google Inc has a small stake, decided to postpone its initial public offering of up to $200 million in the United States because of unfavorable market conditions, IFR reported on Friday, quoting a source with knowledge of the decision.

Xunlei Ltd, a Chinese Internet platform company in which Google has a small stake, decided to postpone its initial public offering of up to $200 million in the United States because of unfavorable market conditions, IFR reported on Friday, quoting a source with knowledge of the decision.

When Sony, Ninetento and Lockheed Martin are getting hacked, what about the small businesses?

The Senate's website was hacked over the weekend, leading to a review of all of its websites, in the latest embarrassing breach of security to hit a major U.S.-based institution.

England based security developer and vendor Sophos, in a statement, said that a fake anti-virus, which is a replica of Microsoft’s security update, tricks the user into installing malicious software.

Trevor Harwell, who was hired to fix clients computers, was arrested by police on suspicion of installing spyware software to take candid photos of his women clients showering and undressing in their homes.

Google Chrome 12 launched on Tuesday is said to be more secure while it takes care of user privacy and brings in improved graphics.

The 64-bit versions of windows are the latest targets of a new malware, a product of the BlackHole Exploit Kit, yet another successful web exploit kit developed by Russian hackers.

A look back at China and Google's history against each other.

Chinese hackers broke into the personal Gmail accounts of senior officials and military personnel of the U.S. government and it allies and stole sensitive data, setting the stage for an era of heightened cyber tension between the world's top military powers. The latest hack attack, which might bring Google and the Chinese administration into a fresh fist fight, was precisely planned and executed, raising doubts if the Chinese state had authorized it.

Google announced it has discovered a phishing scam based in China, looking to uncover email passwords of important government officials.

Google's Android operating system has become the main target for mobile malware and faced another round of attacks for the second time in three months.

Apple released on Tuesday a Mac OS X software update to protect Mac users from a recent phishing scam. Apple said the update to Mac OS 10.6.7, the Snow Leopard, will detect the malware.

After weeks of dithering, Apple has finally released a security update to remove Mac Defender malware and other known variants.

Mac Defender may have triggered panic in the Apple community for the past several weeks, busting myth that Macs are virus-proof, but it cannot claim the distinction of being the first malware to attack Apple computers.

Russian payment processing firm Chronopay denies it is connected to the Mac Defender malware that has infected thousands of Macintosh computers in the last few weeks.

ChronoPay, a Russian payment service company, has vehemently denied accusations that Mac Defender, the first scamware ever to strike Apple computers, is its “brainchild.”

Mac Defender, the first major attack ever to strike Apple computers, has been traced to a Russian online payment service site ChronoPay, according to Brian Krebs, an online security researcher.

After days of silence Apple is now addressing the high-profile virus that is threatening to ruin the pristine virus free world of the Mac OS.

An e-mail belonging to ChronoPay financial controller Alexandra Volkova has been traced to MacDefender and Mac Security Scareware incidents, according to a new web security report.

A Russian payment processing firm seems to be behind the Mac Defender scareware epidemic.