Experts Dismiss News of Stuxnet Source Code Sold on Black Market

A British news organization’s recent claims about the source code to the Stuxnet worm being sold on the black market are being dismissed by security experts.

In a news story Nov. 25, Sky News quotes several anonymous security insiders who said the virus could be used to attack any physical target that…

Survey: Never Too Young for Email, Facebook

In the digital era, it is never too early to have an online presence, whether you are a toddler, or still waiting to be born.

Last month, AVG polled 2,200 mothers with children under the age of 2 in the United States, U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Canada,…

Report: Passwords Are, Like, So Not Cool

Gone are the days of teens keeping their diaries under lock and key: Now, their deepest, darkest thoughts are for the world to see, according to new findings indicating that less than half of 18-25-year-olds across the United States, UK and Australia use passwords to protect their laptops and mobile…

Botnet Infiltrated by Researchers

Security researchers have managed to infiltrate a botnet which had amassed around 60GB of stolen information. The command and control servers were in charge of some 55,000 zombie computers by the time researchers infiltrated the botnet, according to researchers with AVG.

The botnet appeared to be the work of a sophisticated criminal gang called the Avalanche Group, which…

Researchers Find Cyber Criminals Infecting 1 in 10

Researchers at AVG Technologies have discovered a network of 1.2 million malware-infected computers are currently under the control of cyber criminals who used commercial attack software.

Following a two-month long study, AVG determined that the Eleonore exploit toolkit used by the cyber criminals were having a 10 percent success rate in infecting the 12 million visitors to the infected websites. The researchers looked at 165 domains exploited by cyber criminals.

“The…