Day: September 16, 2006

Surfing, not spam, a bigger risk to company networks | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Company networks are now more likely to pick up malicious software via employee Web surfing than from e-mail attachments, according to a new study. Nearly 40 percent of the 200 Danish companies surveyed said their systems had been infected by a virus or worm, despite the fact that 75 percent had implemented a security policy, IDC Denmark said in its report, released Wednesday. But the malicious software in question is no longer primarily making its way through e-mail,

Attack code targets new IE hole | Tech News on ZDNet For more info click on above link Computer code that could be used to hijack Windows PCs via a yet-to-be-patched Internet Explorer flaw has been posted on the Net, experts have warned. The code was published on public Web sites, where it is accessible to miscreants who might use it to craft attacks on vulnerable Windows computers. Microsoft is investigating the issue, the company representative said in a statement Thursday.