IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

ancientribe writes "The targeted attacks out of China that hit Google, Adobe, and other U.S. organizations are still ongoing and have affected many more companies than the original 20 to 30 reported.

BluePeppers writes "The Guardian is reporting that Google China is investigating its staff about The Incident. ""We're not commenting on rumor and speculation.

Ant writes "The December malware threat reports are trickling in from vendors — and they all appear to be different.

Trailrunner7 writes "Despite the fact that the majority of [PDF-related] malware exploits use JavaScript to trigger an attack in Adobe's PDF Reader product, the company says it's impossible to complet

AndGodSed writes "OMG! UBUNTU!

DarkDevil writes "Ever since I was introduced to computers at a very young age, I've been the resident tech support for a household of 7 users.

ancientribe sends in a DarkReading piece on the expanding footprint of small, targeted botnets in enterprises.

Lars Sobiraj writes "Ruben Unteregger has worked for a long time as a software-engineer for the Swiss company ERA IT Solutions.

Frequent contributor Bennett Haselton writes with an idea that he thinks could help keep browsing on Microsoft's browser more secure for users — and benefit Microsoft as a result.

Jay notes a Wall Street Journal report about ad networks unintentionally selling empty space to malware loaders (the link is to a syndicating site that doesn't require a subscription to view).

snydeq writes "A new attack that peppers Google search results with malicious links is spreading quickly, CERT has warned.

KingofGnG writes "Conficker/Downup/Downadup/Kido malware, that according to Symantec 'is, to date, one of the most complex worms in the history of malicious code,' has been updated and this time for r

CWmike writes "Criminals behind the widespread Conficker worm have released a new version that could signal a major shift in the way the malware operates.

Linker3000 writes "According to The Register, OpenDNS plans to introduce an new service that will prevent PCs infected with the Conficker (aka Downadup) malware from contacting its control servers, an

Google labeled the entire Internet as malware earlier this morning (between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST), warning visitors that pretty much every web site could harm your computer.